If The Moon Were Only 1 Pixel: A Tediously Accurate Scale Model of The Solar System

[LitaAlto]

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

Kinda reminds me of XKCD in tenor.

Example:

"Sorry, Humanity," says Evolution. "What with all the jaguars trying to eat you, the parasites in your fur, and the never-ending need for a decent steak, I was a little busy. I didn’t exactly have time to come up with a way to conceive of vast stretches of nothingness."

[luisair]

Thats awesome ;D

[SuperFastJellyfish]

Oh cool, he added a speed of light button in the bottom right corner.

[Rainbowtrout]

Woah. The text gets pretty existential and philosophical near the end/halfway through.

[Camacha]

Wonderful. Our moneys brains have a hard time comprehending all this, but I think SpaceEngine, Universe Sandbox, KSP (and sites like this) are all doing a wonderful job impressing the vastness of space on us. Especially the first of those expanded my view on things more than years of deliberate mental training did.

Edited August 28, 2014 by Camacha

[KerbMav]

I got to Uranus, the rest will have to wait - but I am giving this the AWESOME stamp!

[Rabid Bat]

Cool, made it to Earth, going back to finish the rest of the trip.

Wow I made it. That does help to put things in perspective.

On a side note my wife says its confirmed...I'm nuts, also I need to dust my screen.

Edited August 29, 2014 by Rabid Bat
Finished

[WestAir]

"If the Proton in a Hydrogen Atom were the size of the Sun in this map, we would need 11 of these maps to show the average distance of the electron in an atom."

Holy #$$% batman. How do Protons ever collide? How do we not just fall through each other?

[NERVAfan]

"If the Proton in a Hydrogen Atom were the size of the Sun in this map, we would need 11 of these maps to show the average distance of the electron in an atom."

Holy #$$% batman. How do Protons ever collide? How do we not just fall through each other?

Protons in different atoms generally don't (barring extreme circumstances like nuclear fusion, alpha particles hitting nuclei, etc.) as I understand it.

Solid objects are solid because of electromagnetic interactions, not nucleus stuff.

[Camacha]

"If the Proton in a Hydrogen Atom were the size of the Sun in this map, we would need 11 of these maps to show the average distance of the electron in an atom."

Holy #$$% batman. How do Protons ever collide? How do we not just fall through each other?

Reality is a very empty place, both in outer space and inside atoms there is an overwhelming amount of nothing.

[Jesrad]

It's missing some stuff, especially the moons of Saturn

[Seret]

Yep, if divide the amount of stuff in the universe by the amount of nothing you end up with a number so close to zero you might as well call it zero.

Therefore, we don't exist. QED.

[Nao]

It's missing some stuff, especially the moons of Saturn

Welp only Titan would be bigger than 1 pixel (148% Moon's diameter), rest of the moons have diameter below Plutos (0.66 pixel) and would be invisible. So it's a partial "miss" by the creator

[LitaAlto]

Protons in different atoms generally don't (barring extreme circumstances like nuclear fusion, alpha particles hitting nuclei, etc.) as I understand it.

Solid objects are solid because of electromagnetic interactions, not nucleus stuff.

Yep. We have electrons, mainly, to thank. While they're unimaginably tiny, they're fast and energetic and really hard to pin down. You have to have a dying star at least ten times the mass of the Sun for gravity to overcome the electron clouds repelling one another, and crush the nuclei of the star's atoms together. That's what a neutron star is, really.

Welp only Titan would be bigger than 1 pixel (148% Moon's diameter), rest of the moons have diameter below Plutos (0.66 pixel) and would be invisible. So it's a partial "miss" by the creator

Agreed, I was surprised not to see Titan on there either. It's second in size only to Ganymede, so the omission stood out for me.

Edited August 30, 2014 by LitaAlto
"ten times the size of the Earth"? And that wasn't the most confusing part of the sentence. Fixed!

[Fr8monkey]

5 months too late...

[Tommygun]

Great map. I did a crude measurement by holding a ruler up to the scale at the start.

I think the map is about 478.5 meters long, at least on my computer's screen.

Reality is a very empty place, both in outer space and inside atoms there is an overwhelming amount of nothing.

I want to put this on a greeting card, Happy Birthday!