http://www.troybrophy.com/projects/solarsystem/

This thing is cool; it's a picture of the solar system where everything is to scale. Prepare for extreme side-scrolling. As an added challenge, try finding the planets without using the hotlinks at the top.

I found Mercury before I got bored.

Holy crap, indeed.

Saw this on TSS a couple months ago...fun for about five seconds. Then you realize you'll never find anything.

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Wow, that's awesome.

Wow that's useless

What a delightful contribution there jEDIkIRBY.

If it shows just one new person the immense scale of just our own solar system it's not useless in my eyes.

I'm so 1337 because I found Pluto.

One thing it doesn't mention is that our Solar System doesn't stop at Pluto, it goes on for much further.

oh no

we are small

Maybe you are.

That made me quite literally laugh out loud for some reason.

I found 'em all... took maybe 10 mins

pluto's not in the pic cuz it's at the very end, obviously

See, THAT'S useful

boring

Gets boring really quick. But it puts things in perspective.

Am I the only one that noticed the links at the top that take you directly to each planet?

Also, yeah its wierd... most people dont realize that Saturn is nearly twice as far from the Sun as Jupiter. The outer gas gieants are spread out really far apart.

Those links are new.

No they're not, they were there when I clicked on the link before your first post on this thread.

In fact, let's take a look at Kyle's original post shall we?

Wow. I thought it was sorta neat. There's alot of space...in space.

They've been there for a couple months now.

no he's right, waste of 5 mins looking for planets

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I saw somethink like this on "Bill Nye the Science Guy" way back inthe day. They did a solar system to scale on a footbal field and Pluto was way out in the parking lot somewhere.

Very cool.

I remember Bill Bryson's book had a good perspective comparison type thingy for the planets, but I lent it to someone so I can't tell you what it is.

Why is Saturn the same size as Jupiter? Lame.

because they virtually are....

[edit]compared to us and when you take into account the rings of saturn they will "appear" to be the same size...roughly...[/edit]

Jupiter's diameter: 142,700 km
Saturn's diameter: 119,300 km

They aren't the same size, but neither are they the same size in the picture.

That's quite eye opening... the sun is big. But how did that guy MAKE that site? it's a bit scary. :p

I have that very book, i'll put some extracts:

"It [Pluto] is really tiny: just one quarter of 1 per cent as massive as Earth"

"Even at the speed of light (300,000 kilometres per second) it would take seven hours to get to Pluto"

"Most schoolroom charts show the planets coming one after the other at neighbourly intervals [...] Neptune in reality isn't just a little bit beyond Jupiter, it's way beyond Jupiter - five times further from Jupiter than Jupiter is from us, so far out that it receives only 3 per cent as much sunlight as Jupiter."

"On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with the Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over 300 metrs away and Pluto would be two and a half kilometres distant (and about the size of a bacterium, so you wouldn't be able to see it anyway). On the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, would be 16,000 kilometrs away."

"Pluto may be the last object marked on schoolroom charts, but the system doesn't end there. [...] We won't get to the solar system's edge until we have passed through the Oort cloud [...] Pluto is barely one-fifty-thousandth of the way."

It would have been fairly easy to make, you just define some styles that position everything according to the scale.