The Scale of the Universe (Damndest Thing I Ever Saw)

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[MacCruiskeen]

Video at the link:

A Stunning Scale Model of Our Solar System, Drawn in the Desert
Nov 30, 2015 | 366 videos

Video by Alex Gorosh, Wylie Overstreet

A group of friends discovered there were no proportional models of the solar system with complete planetary orbits—most portray the planets and moons as too close together. So, they decided to build one. On a dry lakebed in Nevada, the group constructed a model by drawing circles in the desert around a 1.5 meter sun and a marble-sized Earth small enough to get lost in filmmaker Wylie Overstreet's pocket. The result is a stunning work of land art that allows viewers to see the full circle of the Earth with their own eyes.

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/ ... -universe/

[zangtang]

cant quantify it, but am certain that having similar 'installation', permanently, in ,for eg, a central/and/or national park in every country in the world.....would pay dividends.

[Burnt Hill]

Sagan Planet Walk

The walk begins here: The Sun Obelisk at Center Ithaca. The Mercury Obelisk can be seen in the background.



Map of the Planet Walk
The Sagan Planet Walk is a walkable scale model of the solar system, located in Ithaca, New York. The model scales the entire solar system—both planet size and distances between them—down to one five billionth of its actual size. Consisting of 11 obelisks situated along a 1.18 km (0.73 mi) path through the streets of downtown Ithaca, the Planet Walk leads from the sun at Center Ithaca to Pluto at the Ithaca Sciencenter.

The exhibition was originally created in 1997 in memory of Ithaca resident and Cornell Professor Carl Sagan. In 2012, the model was expanded 8,000 kilometers (5,000 mi) to include a representation of the sun's closest neighboring star--Alpha Centauri—at the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center at the University of Hawaii, making it the world's largest exhibition.

[Joe Hillshoist]

There is a driveable scale model of the solar system centred on the Siding Springs observatory in the Warrumbungles mountains just near Coonabarabran in NSW.

See three-dimensional planet models along the way as you shuttle from Pluto at the furthest reaches of the Solar System to the Sun, which is represented by the 37-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope dome at Siding Spring Observatory.
The planets are displayed on huge billboards with the size of the planets and the distance between each billboard scaled relative to the dome – the Sun - along the five main roads that lead to Coonabarabran in regional NSW. You can also learn interesting facts about the Solar System and the unique features of each planet – did you know that it rains sulphuric acid on Venus?

http://solarsystemdrive.com/index.html