I was reading an article last month that really hit home about the distances between the moon and Mars as it pertains to earth, and I couldn’t believe it. If you were able to drive your car non stop (not the Elon Musk rocket car) but just your regular car like you would on the highway going 70 mph, it would take you around 5 months to reach the moon. But if you drove to Mars from earth going that speed, driving 24/7 it would take you 228 YEARS. I drive about 2 hours every day to and from work, and I was thinking about that and it really blows your mind how far away these planets are and that’s just in our own solar system.
228 years of the kids asking, “Are we there yet?”.
It is also amazing to think a car could get to the moon faster than a wagon train could trek across America.
>...how far away these planets are...
I found this a year or so ago. The moon is 1 pixel and the solar system is drawn to scale based on it. Be prepared to spend some time scrolling.
http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
On a scale where one foot equaled a million miles, the earth would be a small pea, the sun would be a small pumpkin in my neighbors yard. The nearest star would be around 4,300 miles away.