[eberlems]

Probably everyone here knows the image like this of the Solar system.


I was wondering if that site where the scale of distance and objectsize is correct and the moon a pixel was still around and it is.

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pi ... ystem.html

Enjoy!

[Jesseon]

Thanks for the link. That was a good read.

[Professor Scott]

Very cool but they blew it on the Asteroid belt. Even though we can't see any other asteroids themselves by scale, the belt itself is 1 AU thick and that would most definitely be visible by scale.

[Fritzinger]

I feel a bit nauseous now thinking about all that "achievable" sci fi that talks about colonising the rest of the solar system.

[AllenGould]

I feel a bit nauseous now thinking about all that "achievable" sci fi that talks about colonising the rest of the solar system.

It's big, but the world used to be big and take weeks and months to travel, and now "Around the World in 80 Days" is a vacation ad.

[Professor Scott]

I feel a bit nauseous now thinking about all that "achievable" sci fi that talks about colonising the rest of the solar system.

Let's pitch a tent in our own backyard before we concern ourselves with visiting the neighbors' yard.