/sci/ - Science & Math

Not wanting to defend kids who arent curious or teachers who dont make sure that some portrayals arent to scale, but I can see why most depictions are misleading.

The thing is, most models dont want to show the scale or distance, they want to things like orbits, tides, eclipses,... in a simple way.
A lot of kids wont think "wait, this obviously cant be to scale"