“We are on a marble floating in the the middle of nothing. When you come face to face with that it’s staggering.”
Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh decided to build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits, a true illustration of our place in the universe. It's magical.
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The earth and moon are always pictured close together, when in reality, there is a good amount of distance between them.
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In fact, "every single picture of the solar system that we encounter is not to scale."
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"There is literally not an image that adequately shows you what it actually looks like from out there. The only way to see a scale model of the solar system is to build one."
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