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If the moon were only 1 pixel: a scale model of the solar system

joshworth.com

55 pointsblahedo17 comments

Original HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341690

This would be cool if I could actually scroll down to move sideways. My mouse's side scrolling is terrible and dragging the scroll bar skips a lot. :(

The right arrow key worked best for me.

It would be a bit more fun if I could read the comments without having to scroll. After ten minutes of scrolling to reach Jupiter, and being about 1/4 of the way through the solar system, I could not keep scrolling. I got the concept and was not ready to invest another half hour.

Read the comments without having to scroll: view-source:http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h...

Grab the scroll bar?

all he had to implement http://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/horz-scroll-with-mouse...

also, if you hold down shift and scroll it should scroll horizontal

Google Chrome on Windows allows horizontal scroll with shift key+scroll wheel.

The close distance between Venus and the Earth reminds me of a proposal to use a Saturn V to do a 1 year manned flyby of Venus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Venus_Flyby#Apollo_Appli...

Basically it would use a repurposed S-IVB like Skylab. Skylab has a (relatively deserved) poor reputation, but it was spacious as hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awe6vOXURpY (I wonder if Pete Conrad, seen running around the station in that video, had seen 2001: A Space Odyssey)

It is incredible how far voyager 1 has gone, that would be 3 times more scrolling, according to Nasa's website it's 19 billion km away

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/

Yeah. Voyager 1 blows my mind. I wonder about some future travel tours people will be taking where they take a faster than light tour bus to go see V1 continuing on its trip.

Since someone brought it up, here are the radius of each planet rounded to nearest hundredth, with the first row provided by NASA, and second row used in the OP's visualization. Just for those interested. (Really appreciate Crito's formatting suggestion below.)

  MERCURY VENUS EARTH MOON MARS JUPITER SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE PLUTO
  0.38    0.95  1     0.27 0.53 11.21   09.45  4.01   3.88    0.19
  0.33    1.33  1     0.33 0.67 13.33   11.33  4.67   4.67    0.33

Slightly formatted (you can put spaces in front of lines to fixed-width them):

  MERCURY  VENUS  EARTH  MOON  MARS  JUPITER  SATURN  URANUS  NEPTUNE  PLUTO   
  0.38     0.95   1      0.27  0.53  11.21    09.45   4.01    3.88     0.19    
  0.33     1.33   1      0.33  0.67  13.33    11.33   4.67    4.67     0.33

It's neat, but Earth is 3 pixels wide and Venus is 4 pixels wide. Last I checked Nasa claims Venus is about 95% the size of Earth.

Also see: http://www.distancetomars.com/

That was enjoyable. Save some of the odd "nothingness" talk, it was a fantastic demonstration of the freaking scale that cosmological physics takes. Think, and people have modeled these scales so well, it's hard to freaking believe.

nice page.

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