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3296312 No.3296312 [Reply] [Original]

Hello.

Just a quick question. I heard it was impossible to draw the Solar System to scale for practical purposes, even on a large canvas like a University whiteboard. Is this true - and just so I can help ullustrate the idea in my head, how large would a scale Astronomical Unit be in CM to be able to give Earth some meaningful size? And by meaningful size I mean distinguishable by the human eye (even a small dot).

>> No.3296337

i dunno.

>> No.3296360

if the distance from earth to sun was 10 meters, earth would be about the size of a grain of sand.

>> No.3296370

If the sun was the size of a pin head, the solar system would be nearly a hundred miles long.

>> No.3296371

1 AU = 149,598,000 km
diameter of the earth = 12,756 km

ratio = 11,727:1

>> No.3296383

Look it up!

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>>3296337

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>>3296312
What the fuck G, who told you that crap? Have you never seen a poster of the solar system in your school?

I'm not even going to navigate to my reaction images folder for this one, here's Bianca Beauchamp instead.

>> No.3297309

>>3296360
Thank god, we aren't 10 meters closer or we would all be on fire!

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>>3297309
GOD IS AMAZING!

>> No.3297847

>>3297183
are you retarded or just retarded?

>> No.3297870

>>3297847
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>> No.3297881

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Ob0xR0Ut8
Bill Nye, nigga.

>> No.3297883

2 seconds on wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_system_model#Scale_models_in_various_locations

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>>3297881
>Nigga

>> No.3297978

Just put dots for the planets and challenge anyone to measure them to see if its actually to scale.

>> No.3298527

>>3297978
>Implying it wouldn't only take a few minutes for anyone with a robotic eye