VIDEO: Awesome perspective on our solar system, modeled in the Nevada desert to scale.

[L. Coyote]

www.sciencealert.com/watch-friends-build-11-km-scale-model-of-the-solar-system-in-nevada-desert/

Friends build 11 km scale model of the Solar System in Nevada desert

Absolutely incredible.
PETER DOCKRILL - 18 SEP 2015

We know what you’re thinking. “Seven minutes! I don’t have 7 minutes to watch some video of people playing around in the sand! See ya!” But wait, don’t go anywhere, because now that you’re here you need to watch this jaw-dropping and even quite moving short film.

The work of film-making pals, Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, To Scale: The Solar System is a mind-boggling labour of love, and one which is pretty much guaranteed to give you an all-new perspective on just how big the Solar System really is (as well as how puny and isolated we are on planet Earth in the grand scheme of things).

Pointing out how traditional visual depictions of the Solar System get the sense of scale totally wrong, Overstreet and Gorosh are determined to set the record straight, making their own scale model of what the Solar System actually looks like in the middle of a dry lakebed in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.

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http://vimeo.com/139407849

[Fred Sanders]

1. Please post hyperlink? The size of the universe is indeed near incomprehensible. This really helps!

Should be mandatory 7 minutes of watching for everyone....with the added bonus of restoring brain cells thought permanently destroyed after watching GOP debates!

[Baclava]

2. Here's the video

vimeo.com/139407849


These scale attempts have been done before - the human brain just can't conceive of such distances

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

[snooper2]

3. Some human brains :)

That is whey people start letting mythology take over. god must be the size of a fucking red giant if he/she/it had any chance of creating anything LOL-

Black hole? Wish it into existence or did he have a little mixing bowl?

[L. Coyote]

5. Thanks. Added above on edit too.

Figured out that Vimeo embeds in DU, just use http:// instead of https://

[Baclava]

7. yeah - click on the large screen format in that video, in HD...pretty cool

Here's another one - Riding light....the speed of light is so sloooooooow

[L. Coyote]

4. Done. DU doesn't automatically link without the http://

There is no known cure for watching a Republican debate! But you can cure Republicanism with an education.

[Fred Sanders]

6. This video is incredible....7 minutes that would blow the mind of any of the Fundie fools we have

to put up with being heavily and uncritically promoted for another year.

[trof]

8. Way cool.

And it's amazing that there's so much going on on this incredibly small speck.