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I'd love to see the Sun included on the opposite side of the scale. Its diameter is 109 times that of earth, making it 10900 pixels. Would be just as impressive a demonstration.

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I didn't go through much, but I'm quite sure that in that scale, It would be a flat line

I tried simulating it, and it's just enough curvature to get the point across. Assuming I didn't have a bug of course.

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