Scale model of the solar system created in Nevada desert

UPI ^ | September 17, 2015

[SMGFan]

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev., Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A pair of filmmakers visited a dry lake bed in Nevada to build what they describe as the first-ever scale model of the solar system.

Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, who posted the video on YouTube and Vimeo, said they wanted to show the true size of the solar system and the distance between its sun and planets by building a scale model in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.

The model began with a marble-sized Earth, which to scale meant the entire model required 7 miles of empty space.

[kinsman redeemer]

Thanks!!

That was VERY VERY good!

[showme_the_Glory]

Here's another great video that puts our own little world into perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=louie+giglio+how+great+is+our+god+full+video

sorry, don't know how to hyperlink here.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Your playa name is, “Moon Pony”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBVBHRD5lNU

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Link?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Lewis Caroll described factious German scientists who made a one to one scale map of Germany but couldn’t unfold it because it would block crops from getting sunlight.

[mykroar]

Bfl

[EternalVigilance]

Cool.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Is space massive? I always thought it had no mass.

Also, to get garbage to fall into the sun, you’d have to accelerate it relative to the Earth by an amount equal to the Earth’s orbital velocity around the sun. This would not be inexpensive.

[minnesota_bound]

It is a map for the aliens to us. Beware!

[jstaff]

I’ve always found it sort of hard to get my mind around that even though the Sun is about 109 times the size of the Earth, they are EXACTLY the same distance apart.

[Gefn]

Oh wow. The video left me speechless.

Thanks for finding this gem of a story.

[Ken H]

From Universe Today =>

So, how many Earths can fit in the Sun? The answer is that it would take 1.3 million Earths to fill up the Sun.

If you’d like to do the calculation yourself, here are your numbers. The volume of the Sun is 1.412 x 1018 km3. And the volume of the Earth is 1.083 x 1012 km3. So if you divide the volume of the Sun by the volume of the Earth, you get 1,300,000.

http://www.universetoday.com/65356/how-many-earths-can-fit-in-the-sun/

[The FIGHTIN Illini]

Now That Is One Very Cool Video!

[Moltke]

A pair of filmmakers visited a dry lake bed in Nevada to build what they describe as the first-ever scale model of the solar system.

Hardly the first scale model. The important part the author missed is "... with complete planetary orbits."

And a good opportunity to suggest once more to look up a scale model site on the web and do some scrolling. Here's one:

Scale Model

[Atomic Vomit]

This scale model of the solar system has been here in Northern Maine for quite a while.

http://pages.umpi.edu/~nmms/solar/

[camle]

see #19, or google “maine solar system model”

[KC Burke]

Cool

[JoeFromSidney]

I tried building a scale model of the solar system when I was in grade school. Not the planets and the orbits to the same scale. The orbits were to be to one scale. The planets would be to a different scale, with the largest just able to fit inside a sheet of construction paper. I soon realized that I didn't have enough room to get all the orbits into the model. The solar system is really BIG

[jstaff]

I was doing the short way and only used the respective mean diameters, not the volume or total mass.

But that makes it even more impressive that they are still the EXACT same distance apart.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

thanks