Guys, this video seriously touched me. Automatically on my TH-cam´s Top 3 ever. Thank you, thank you, thank you. (from this perspective, my problems look ridiculously pathetic)
+Toño G. A. I always feel the same way when I contemplate the vast amazingness of the Universe. It humbles me and centers me. I feel better, and oh so very fortunate to be here to even HAVE problems.
+Toño G. A. Ridiculously Pathetic ! ( in context ) Man don't you know yet, that THAT~ is the ROOT to HELL. Not that you say it , most will know what you mean, BUT that you allow it to be seen, and therefore thought~ to be you, and others. Ridiculously Pathetic ! that is.
Still showing this to my Physics students every year, and have been since 2016 when I found it. One of the best things I've ever come across to help them understand the scale and emptiness and size of our solar system. When they get this, then we start talking about our solar system being just a small part of our galaxy, and our galaxy being one of billions or trillions of galaxies, etc. etc. you see both the lightbulb go off and the understanding set in. One of my favorite days in class each year. Cheers.
So you think we live on a SPINNING BALL WITH WATER STUCK TO IT???!! Where has that ever happened before?!?! You’ve been indoctrinated since kindergarten and now you are doing it to our kids!
@@adamwilbanks2681 literally everywhere you clown. Any life sustaining planet. For you to even say what you said is pathetic and if you honestly believe it then you need to reevaluate your life because you have something wrong with you. I really hope you're joking.
The thing is, it really isn't the edge, and Pluto also isn't. It's super fascinating if you look it up, but the solar system includes so much more - the Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, things you've never heard of that would totally blow this model up and aren't even fully clear to scientists. In reality, nobody knows where the border of our solar system is yet. Estimates vary wildly. Mostly it's comets and debris and asteroids out there. Lots of ice.
@@baguettegott3409 well, yeah. sol system, as in 8 planets and 1 star is something we made up. Thosaunds of asteroids and hundreds of comets also come and go, they orbit around the sun. there is no clear border to sol system. it just makes it easier to understand when we talk like there is.
In the Netherlands we have a few of these. We call them Melkwegpad of planetenpad. Some of these walks are 5km long and show the planets in their relative size. Awesome to do with kids!
I had no idea of the relative scale of the sun and planets - this video should be compulsory for all schools! These guys need to be thanked by everyone for making it clear that no drawing we've ever seen shows our solar system properly to scale. I'm humbled by their work and by the realisation of how small we really are in our own solar system let alone the universe! Thank you.
I watched this in my school. It's truly fascinating, how big the Earth alone is, and the Sun in comparison. And then you realise that is but a microscopic fragment of the Universe. Something we can't even come close to comprehending.
I’m kinda weirded out this isn’t common knowledge. Perhaps people don’t realize exactly how vast the distances and sizes of everything is, but at least they ought to know it’s nothing near the illustrations, right? It’s like the world map thing, where the world map isn’t to scale. I hope that is common knowledge at least.
One of the greatest quotes in the history of man: Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. -- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
Kevin Harris You know what, here in the Philippines, we have a song entitled "Tuldok" which means "dot" in english. It came to me while reading this quotation and watching the video above. The song tells us that we are just dots on earth (in the universe, perhaps) and so we must never be too proud of ourselves. How I pray that every human realizes that simple truth. One love from the Philippines.
My son wants to be an astronaut and we were discussing, during dinner, the scale of the Sun comparing to Earth. He used the pizza crumbs to do it 😂 after a while of him searching for other objects to represent the other planets, I said… let’s see if someone made a video about it on TH-cam. And WOW, were we impressed. Congratulations for one of the most spectacular videos ever. Loved it. So well done. I just kept thinking the amount of pre and post production that it had ❤
It’s unfortunate that you haven’t recognized reality and that you guys are deceived . There is no solar system. That couldn’t be anymore fake . God created this earth , earth was created a topographical plane with hills and mountains . There is no space . We are the center of creation. This is why the sun and moon revolve around us . Simple as observing it day in and day out. There is no earth orbit. There is no earth curve . Pay attention to your senses and not pseudoscience. You’ve been led astray . We all were. Take the power back and prove things to yourself . Reality . Science. Science is the observation of what is naturally occurring on earth. Observe , hypothesis, test and repeat . The government knows the earth is flat . They don’t want you to know . Pilots know the earth is flat . They will tell you . I have spoken to several , all of them denouncing any account for curvature and rotation. Which if they were truly flying over a curved rotating earth , they would absolutely need to account for curve and rotation. That is the Coriolis effect. Please don’t rebut with some response that is emotional. If you want to have a conversation I’m more than happy to do so. I don’t want any disrespect or name calling. I will not participate in childlike “debates”. I’m sure the shills will be here. We need to be informed and inform our families . The time is wearing thin. I hope the best for you and yours
This isn't on trending? This is literally one of the most thought out, planned video's which took time and dedication to actually recreate and upload rather than just some shitty editing. Kudos to you all!
@@mr.evasion my thoughts exactly. The earth is supposed to be 4 times bigger than the moon but its about the same size looking back from the moon? The Apollo 11 crew in the interview that looked like they were on stand in court than achieving the greatest human achievement said they couldn't see stars but now all the astronauts now talk about stars planets and galaxies....
A HUGE AMOUNT OF RESPECT to the entire team who voluntarily did this amazing solar system scale. As a space-time enthusiast, I could really feel the passion and efforts you guys put into this video.
Just a fun fact, I calculated that at this scale (in the video), the entire length of the Milky Way Galaxy would be 1.18x10^9km, which is exactly 7.88 Astronomical Units. Which means that in the video, if that was the ACTUAL solar system, in that desert of planet Earth: the Milky Way Galaxy would have a bigger diameter than the distance from the sun to Jupiter (around 5 AU's). But closer than Saturn (around 10 AU's).
THAT'S HOW THEY HOOKED YOU...MESMERIZED YOU WITH NUMBERS SO BIG YOU CANT FATHOM. DONT BE DUPED...THE SUN AND MOON ARE VERY CLOSE AND THOSE STARS ARE JUST AS CLOSE. THE EARTH IS FLAT AND WE ARE UNDER A DOME. RESEARCH OPERATION FISHBOWL. WE ARE GODS CROWNING GLORY...WE ARE HIS FOOTSTOOL. NASA IS A FRAUD.
I'm a senior, and very little impresses me anymore. This impressed the hell out of me. You have given me a piece of knowledge I never had before...and even though I am 7 years late to the party...I just wanted to thank you so very, very much...that was a lovely gift you have given me!
I drive a transport truck. I have some remarkable conversations with complete strangers. This video has come up in a shockingly large number of them. Brilliant work, folks. Thank you. You’re inspiring a generation, and educating several others. People’s preconceived notions of what they need to worry about simply fade away into quiet awe when they see this. It can bring peace to some folks, simply because of the perspective. This video should have been viewed at TIFF, among other places. And it should be (and probably is, in some) viewed in every science classroom in the world.
Andres Gonzalez not having a job doesnt habe to put you in a depression. You can be totally free from stress and have all the time to think and enjoy your life on a planet the size of a marble floating around in space of nothing.
I don't know how I've never seen this video before, but thankfully that changed moments ago. I've had a lifelong interest in astronomy, and I've understood the sizes and distances involved for more than half a century...but this somehow made an emotional impact I was NOT expecting. Brought me to tears, in fact. Thank you!
6:10 "Everything that you have ever known,... all behind your thumb." The way he delivers that line gives me chills. That hardcore perspective on just how small we are.
www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/earth/pale-blue-dot.html "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
We aren't THAT small. Simply invert the process and compare our world to that of an atom and then imagine that atom and then keep going. We're actually very huge from that perspective. So yeah.. There's a daily dose of balance for ya.
The earth is twice the diameter of the moon (about four times the size that we see the moon). If I hold my thumb up at arms distance I cannot block out the moon. From the perspective from the moon the earth should be the size of your fist at arms length. Basic science, just saying.
Look at voyager 1. It just left gravitational pull area of the sun. And it's far away from the kuiper's belt, which is furthest matter group in solar system.
@@JerryInGeorgia gravity is "comparatively" a weak force. But it extends to infinity nevertheless, the gravitational pull just becomes weaker and weaker and the orbit changes accordingly. At infinite distance, orbit is just a straight line.
@@ameya5054 well yeah, I was not absolutely correct to call it an orbit, since the orbits can only be elliptical or circular in shape. But please read on, I have given the reasons of me saying so in paragraphs below. I called it straight line to stress the point that just before the trajectory of the body becomes straight line (no gravitational force experienced by the bodies), trajectory is not straight and hence the force can be experienced. Although just before it becomes a straight line, the trajectory is most probably hyperbolic, that means that although effects of gravity is experienced, but the body is not in orbit. A good way to visualise this is that the radius of curvature of the trajectory (of smaller body) keeps on increasing as the distance between the body increases and as the distance tends to infinity, the radius tends to infinity as well. And an infinite radius of curvature is a straight line. Straight line just means that, no effect of gravity whatsoever. At infinite distance gravitational force becomes zero.
I'm a high school astronomy teacher and this just popped up on my TH-cam feed as I was making a powerpoint for class. Will be showing this to class tomorrow if I have time when I'm done with my lecture.
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. ------ Carl Sagan
Epic. The very definition of why we should master space. We fight so much over territories here on earth, when we were given more than enough for trillions of humans. You just have to find and develop new worlds, and expand. We should not be a species dependent on what is given, we are a species born to expand and discover.
I kinda hate that quote, I mean like, we get it, we live on Earth and thankfully people are most inclined to think about what concerns them which is all matters on Earth. Yes Earth is tiny compared to the universe but who cares like stfu
Lew King Nobody ever will. No matter how far technology progresses, there are still limits to how far we can see and travel. Barring the possibility of extraterrestrial tutoring, we'll never know what it's really all about.
A year or two ago I saw a similar video to this, made by a guy in southern England, who made a scale model of the solar system, and then drove the scale distance to the next closest star, Proxima Centauri, which took him across the channel, all the way through France and a short distance over the Spanish border.
With the planets being so far from the sun, this really shows how strong and pervasive is gravity: it keeps the solar system together across such distances.
Yes, and yet at the same time it is so weak. I think there was a Royal Institution Christmas Lecture that opened with the lecturer being let down on a rope into the auditorium. His point was to show how a thin rope - maybe an inch thick, could counterbalance the entire gravitational pull from the mass of the earth (around 6 trillion trillion kilograms) on his body.
Pluto is smaller than the moon and many other moons in the solar system. Hardly a planet. Just a slightly bigger round thing out there among millions of other big round things.
In Melbourne, Australia they have a scale model of the solar system.....5+km long to walk it....you can buy a coffee on your journey from Jupiter to the rest of the outer planets. :-)
The thing that staggers me the most is that since the replica sun and the real sun are the same size from the replica of Earth's orbit, that means that the view of the sun from the perspective of the other replica planet's orbits are accurate as well. For example if you guys made the same replica solar system but on Mars, the real sun over the Martain surface would match the replica sun from replica Mars' orbit.
I was thinking the same. I wish they would have shown that more in the video. Neptune must be so dark. It would see the sun as a tiny dot no bigger than what we see as stars.
Guys I am a Science teacher and this video seriously touched my heart. I love Science and the way you presented the info in this video is beyond words. I am going to show this to my students during our Astronomy class. Thank you guys. You earned my sub.
This is so awesome. It blew my mind to think how much energy the sun emits to heat all the way to here. This literally warms the earth and you can feel that heat in your body on a sunny day.
This has been on my mind for a while as well. Basically since I first saw the real scale distances and planet sizes on some webpage I dont recollect name od anymore. The amount of energy coming from the sun must be unimaginably enormous. And the fact, we are just at the right spot not to freeze or burn is mindboggling.
@@Invictusestas I've come to terms with this by realizing because that perfect environment created out of trillion random events in universe, a self aware species like us exist. We simply wouldn't have contemplated these thoughts if such a perfect bubble didn't exist in first place. Now either we are the universally rare and the only ones or just one of many out there - what's more profound scenario, that maybe a good food for thought.
@@stig1872 At the end of the day - are we really alone ? Or is there other intelligent life out there?…. Both of these prospects are equally unnerving 😨
Google 'If the moon were only 1 pixel'. It honestly blows my mind about how gigantic our solar system is... I can't even comprehend how small we are in this universe.
One of the most memorable days in my education was day 1 of my Geology 101 class at a community college in Texas. The professor attempted to create a similar scaled model of the Solar System with the class. She brought marbles, tennis balls, a basket ball, etc. to represent the planets (we didn’t have a model for the Sun but she told us how big it would be.) We went out a few blocks and I think we only made it to Mars before she told us how much farther we’d need to go if we want to make it to Pluto (which was still a planet back then!) It was the fascination of how small we are and how much there is to know in the Universe that made that day so memorable. That day I also reaffirmed my decision to major in Geophysics, which has become a big part of my career and of my life in general. I wish I remember that professor’s name, but always think of her, of how with a thoughtfully crafted lesson she became so influential in my life! I will be forever grateful to her and to all science teacher who often go unappreciated but who with their passion inspire our curiosity, imagination, and dreams! Thanks to you all! 🙏
Something easier to do without needing a 7 mile stretch of flat desert is "The Thousand-Yard Model or, The Earth as a Peppercorn" by Guy Ottewell (copyright 1989). There are pdfs of his planet walk at various university websites and a few webpage versions. The scale of the planets is smaller, so that it all fits (including Pluto) in about 1,000 yards (914.4 meters). So with the Earth being a peppercorn, the Sun is roughly the size of a playground ball (8in or 20.3cm). When I did it for my daughter's 3rd grade class (8 years old), we walked the circumference of the playground, since we could not leave school grounds. It still conveyed the distance and is sobering to look at. FYI, Pluto is still a dwarf planet, just no longer a major planet. Pluto is joined by Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Sedna, Ceres, and Orcus. Ceres is in the asteroid belt and all of the rest are beyond Neptune.
What's mind blowing is that even if humanity were to somehow travel at the speed of light, we wouldn't get very far at all in this galaxy. It takes 45 minutes for light from the Sun to reach Jupiter, and five hours for it to reach Pluto. The speed of light may be fast to us, but it's pretty much slower than walking speed to the universe.
At this scale, the nearest star (Proxima Centauri) would be 29,266 miles away. Put another way, if the distance between the Sun and the Earth were represented as a single inch, that distance would still be 4.21 miles. The scale of the universe is unimaginable.
As a kid, I remember Apollo 11 leaving Earth on my birthday. I also remember Walter Cronkite telling us they were travelling faster than a bullet yet it was going to take 4 days to get there. That was my first introduction to the vastness of space.
Same here. As a 12 year old I listened to the lunar landing on my father's Hellicrafter radio 📻 on the Voice of America 🇺🇸 broadcast. As a 12 year old I could not work out those strange 'ping' sounds between sentences.
Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the Moon on my 12th birthday. It was 21st July in the UK. For many years 21st July was recognised here as the anniversary, but now it is almost remembered on the 20th; the date in the US at the time of the walk!
@@dungww2006 you are making up conversations about aliens and you are calling me the nerd? I bet you have space pajamas and Super Mario bed sheets dumbass
I feel the same way. I wasted my life working to survive when I should have been an astrophysicist. I've read on the topic every day since I was about 3 or 4. I'm 45 and I've just started reading about quantum physics. I thought it wouldn't interest me. At some point it occurred to me that the scale of things that exist goes on from our size into the large-scale, and also into the small scale. What I understood at 3 or 4 by reading "Horton Hears a Who" I've rediscovered as an adult. Every large body in space is made of atoms, which like the planets and galaxies, are made up of mostly empty space. And The Force is reality. Don't waste your life working to make someone else rich. Do what you love. "Follow your bliss." ~Dr. Joseph Campbell
This video is not only one of the best videos on TH-cam, but is one of the best videos ever made and it stands together with the "Pale Blue Dot" narrated by Carl Sagan. Every person on this planet needs to watch them.
"To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." -Carl Sagan
Yeah, I kinda feel more dumb after watching this video because all I saw was those curved lights rolling around on the floor for a few seconds and my non-scientific brain was "Oh, well, whatever, I still don't grasp the scale of all this". I was expecting to see the scale from above to comprehend it. Anyway, I do appreciate their efforts to go out to the desert and filming all this for us.
the amount of time put into this is so incredible you really dedicated your time to this for other people to see and it's truly amazing thank you so much ( also im watching this 6 years later so just think this video is still touching people years later )
it probably would have been hard to keep the drone stable while they drove around the orbits, and without that orbit visualization you likely would not have been able to see the tiny planets.
For filming that, the man has to be located at an altitude of 7-10kms with a wide angle full frame camera from where it might get impossible to see planets and sun and may be the orbits. As the orbits are made from the carving wheels of car.
Peiyu Lin yeah, technically the drone would require to be at least above 5000 meters above the ground to capture it vertically. We wouldn't be able to see anything from such a height. No wonder why they didnt do it!
It is staggering, and no matter how many times I think of it, leaves me in awe. Thank you team for doing this. This video and the scale of time should be watched by every human being to remember how fragile and precious our existence really is.
"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest, but consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us". -Carl Sagan
6 years later, this video still fascinates me. I remember seeing it for the first time 6 years ago, and I can say without doubt that my entire perspective on life changed. It showed just how small we really are compared to the overall size of the solar system. This video is easily one of, if not the most influential video I've ever seen, and it will be eternally underrated. Very well done guys!
Most impressive method of conveying the scale. Loved it and it looked like a great adventure to make. I think that it’s time to build on to what you’ve already given us with current technology. More angles on the original project. Maybe superimposing massive stars and zooming out to include Pluto, the Oort Cloud & even Proxima Centauri. Anything is possible now. Big thanks so far!
This video is almost 5 years old. In the geologic timescale, drones were invented yesterday :P that’s why they set up their camera on the “nearby mountain”
It's encouraging that this kind of content can get nearly 8 million views. I was starting to think only stuff like boobie thumbnail clickbait and dancing kittens got millions of views.
when he said “you are on a marble, floating in the middle of nothing.” i finally found the word to describe ‘space’ itself after all this time. Space is literally nothing with floating rocks, and that amazes me that our world is bigger than earth itself. space is an amazing yet scary phenomenon.
OP Barricuda landing on other bodies is actually very easy once you are in orbit around earth. There's not nearly as much delta v required to reach planets like neptune, and if the mission is planned extremely well, then efficiency can be increased greatly with repeated small burns at perigee to the earth and with gravity assists. The only body that's hard to land on is mars because of its low density atmosphere yet high gravity
When you say "very easy" - where is that on the intellectual scale of New-born to Einstein? I mean, considering the amount of people who actually plan these things compared to the general population - i'd say its not your average Joe's mathematics at play here. Interplanetary trajectory planning is pretty impressive. I mean, Solar System models typically negate the fact that the whole system itself is corkscrewing through space and the planets are never where they were in space the last time they were in that position in orbit. Calculating the error out of these Heliocentric models is easy to get wrong, and it has been wrong before.
ChrisWhite85 i meant that it was easy relative to people who have a basic understanding of orbital mechanics. The general population though thinks that for instance the apollo mission space craft flew pointing towards the moon to get there haha
Well done my friend. +1 I am 66. I was blessed to live at a time when man first entered space and eventually step foot on the moon. From President Kennedy's famous speech about putting a man on the moon to staying up late in front of a 19" black & white TV [at the time it was consider a BIG screen TV] watching live Neil Armstrong step foot where no man had stepped before. Also lived those scary moments too. From when Russia launching Sputnik 1 [1st satellite in space], to the Apollo 13 nail bitter and the two space shuttle disasters. What an exciting time it was to be alive.
Alexa You're an insult to the brave people who risked their lives on the Apollo project, including 3 astronauts who died on the Launchpad, and the crew of Apollo 13 who almost didn't make it back.
Came back to this years later. This is just such a beautiful video, encapsulating the wonder of what it is to be human. The equlibrium of being totally unique and totally insignificant.
Amazing video. I did something like that more than 40 years ago when I was 12 years old on an empty beach in the northern of Portugal. In an illustrated book I learned the sizes of all the planets in the solar system and their distances from the sun. But those huge numbers were just that, numbers. I had to do something to be able to grasp its meaning. So I planned an experiment. I reduced the size of the sun to the size of a soccer ball and then got marbles and tiny balls made of bubble gum to simulate the planets to scale. I was immediately amazed by the immensity of the sun. But as soon as I did the math for the distances between the sun and the planets, I came to the conclusion that I couldn't run the simulation in my backyard. I needed a lot more space. It was a sunny day in midwinter when I took the balls to the beach. I placed the soccer ball in the sand and counted steps towards Mercury, then Venus, then Earth (also with the moon at the right distance), then Mars, then Jupiter (the biggest marble), then... no more. Saturn was already too far away to be able to visualize it together. As the marbles and the tiny balls were too small to be seen in the distance, I made a small pile of sand under each one of them. At least I would be able to visualize their positions. I then walked away a few dozen meters to a dune higher up and stood there admiring this crazy layout with more than 100m for a long time. I also imagined where Saturn and the rest of the planets would be (Pluto was still one of them). The distances between the sun and the planets were incredible. The solar system was essentially empty space after all. I discovered something that day. I turned numbers into images and discovered their true meaning. It was ecstatic... A few years ago, and now as amateur astronomer, I decided that I had to make a terrestrial globe perfectly synchronized with the Earth motion. That's what I did. Watch the video of my invention. I'm trying hard to put it on the market. th-cam.com/video/Sb_A9HICQDg/w-d-xo.html
I just want to say I love every single thing about this video. The idea, the music, the camera angels, the marbles, how the text and the marbles get lit up simultaneously... I'm so inspired by this, I learned so much editing techniques because of this video, like motion tracking, I even bought my first camera because I want to create something like this. This is absolutely my favourite video ever.
@@ToScale thank YOU!! I remembered reading you replied somewhere that a new video will come out soon, I’m sooo expecting to watch it. Congrats for your new work!
I'm complete and sincerely grateful for this video. All my life I've always been described as an artist, and as such, everyone (including me) thought that I was going to follow an art related career. Three years ago I watched Interstellar, and when the film ended, with tears in my eyes, I looked up at my mother with complete joy and told her "this is it, this is what I want to study for the rest of my life". I've never understood what drives my unexplainable passion towards space, I've never understood why everytime I talk about it I start crying for no apparent reason. But what I know is that those are things that should not be ignored. Today I accidentally came across with this video, and again, after three years, I'm feeling this powerful connection with space. So thank you, because now, once again, i'm completely sure that I want to study astrophysics! (sorry for any mistake, I'm not a native English speaker :)
“and he decreed the appointed times and the set limits of where men would dwell, 27 so that they would seek God, if they might grope for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us.”
My daughter just turned seven years old and she's just starting to ask questions about whether we are alone. Any rational answer must include both an honest "we don't know" and a discussion of scale in terms of how it affects the likelihood that we are indeed unique (spoiler: it's unlikely). This video helped bring that point home perfectly. It's also amazing to watch her (or me for that matter) try to comprehend the next frames of reference, like a galaxy, or a nebula, let alone the entire universe, observable or otherwise. Thank you for this.
Gilbert Tang hey man I’m not trying to teach u how to parent n don’t know your girl but I would wait until she’s older like 16 to dump that kind of information on her it can really weigh on a kids head if they think too much existentially
Y'all, this is THE BEST film on TH-cam. It genuinely is. This is absolutely incredible. In concept, in execution, funny, sweet, profound. Seriously. This is the best.
@@wyliewright202 r/whooosh I know Pluto isn't a planet anymore. I just happen to like pluto, like many others as well. It was a joke, dammit. This video was awesome and this was not meant to be criticism.
Pluto doesn't have to be a planet, it's still part of the solar system. But to be fair, they can't reasonably include every body in our system, because there are so many it would take months to set up. And if they tried the make the *entire* system to scale, all the way out to the Oort cloud... You'd need pretty much a small country's worth of space.
@@kingjojojo1 And we can only wonder what miracles are on moons of Saturn and Jupiter only... It doesnt matter on witch kind of celestial body are remarkable things. Pluto simply doesnt fit in planet definition. Period.
Around 30 years ago there was a show on either TLC or Discovery (back when they did educational shows) that did just this. I loved it. Just as I love this video. They also did their best to impart to the viewer not just the size and proportion of our solar system but the awesome beauty and how mind blowing this information is. I love honest to goodness science videos that are for the sake of science, education and expanding minds. You guys did a wonderful job. Keep it up if you can. This is a treasure.
Not including Pluto it's like when your parents tell you to not invite your best friend over anymore for Christmas because he's not family...they are right but it's just mean...
JOLI TORAX Not really. I mean, c'mon. I've grown up with the notion, nah, the firmly planted knowledge, that Pluto is part of our solar system. Now I feel bereft. They kicked out Pluto for being what? Too diminutive? If our solar system was a company and Pluto an employee, anti discrimination laws would be kicking in here. Fired for being a midget? See ya in court... ;O)
You could add the fact that this whole system of almost nothing is racing through space. So these circles that represent the orbits of the planets aren't circles but actually kind of sine waves. That's so amazing. We should live in peace together on this beauty little spaceship called 'earth'.
The reference frame used here is the heliocentric frame (in which the Sun is at rest), which is just as valid as any other reference frame. For example the galactic frame, the frame you are describing, in which the galactic core of the Milky Way is at rest.
Well, My travels include Oahu, Hawaii, Brunswick, Maine, and Key West, Florida at the extremes, and I was born in Memphis, Tennessee. I also have had residences in Memphis, TN, Jacksonville, FL, Anaheim, Oxnard, CA, and Jupiter and Hobe Sound, FL. I have driven through or slept in many other states, so it is a little more than 30-40 miles.
Yes our solar system is tremendous compared to us on earth yet our solar system is microscopic when compared to the universe. It hurts my brain to even attempt to comprehend it. I got annoyed that I had a leak on my roof and I just thought...really, that's what you are annoyed at? When something doesn't go right I just think about how small we are.
If anyone just came here to see the distances here they are: Mercury: 68 m / 224 ft 2:25 Venus: 120 m / 447 ft 2:34 Earth: 176m / 579 ft 2:45 Mars: 269 m / 881 ft 2:56 Jupiter: 0.92 km / 0.57 mi 3:28 Saturn: 1.7 km / 1.1 mi 3:40 Uranus: 3.4 km / 2.1 mi 3:58 Neptune: 5.6 km / 3.5 mi 4:33
By this scale Betelgeuse would have a diameter of over a kilometre, and our Milky Way Galaxy would be several hundred times larger than the actual full scale solar system that our Earth completes. Like, imagine that little marble Earth with its own humans making its own scale model. A Milky Way Galaxy on THAT scale would engulf a circular radius of around a thousand kilometres, making it easily visible from space *in actual scale.*
This is fantastic guys! I enjoyed watching this a couple of times. I am in awe about our universe and it’s size and you all brought this into perspective here on earth for us. Thank you.
This is amazing. From all of the astrophysics things I’ve watched, this has blown my mind the most. I can’t believe how small they are and yet somehow how large.
This is really really amazing .And for their passion to show us the real scale model of our solar system. Every kid in their schooling must be shown to this video.
Guys, this video seriously touched me. Automatically on my TH-cam´s Top 3 ever. Thank you, thank you, thank you. (from this perspective, my problems look ridiculously pathetic)
+Toño G. A. Thank you! This means a lot to us.
+Toño G. A. exactly how i felt
+Toño G. A. I always feel the same way when I contemplate the vast amazingness of the Universe. It humbles me and centers me. I feel better, and oh so very fortunate to be here to even HAVE problems.
+Toño G. A.
Ridiculously Pathetic ! ( in context ) Man don't you know yet, that THAT~ is the ROOT to HELL.
Not that you say it , most will know what you mean, BUT that you allow it to be seen, and therefore thought~ to be you, and others.
Ridiculously Pathetic ! that is.
+AppleEed Wtf are you talking about?
Still showing this to my Physics students every year, and have been since 2016 when I found it. One of the best things I've ever come across to help them understand the scale and emptiness and size of our solar system. When they get this, then we start talking about our solar system being just a small part of our galaxy, and our galaxy being one of billions or trillions of galaxies, etc. etc. you see both the lightbulb go off and the understanding set in. One of my favorite days in class each year. Cheers.
I've done an educational video walking scale model if ur interested.
I think the light bulb goes on, not off, when realization sets in. ;)
@@emgeesea3983 well Im sure for some the lightbulb goes off haha
So you think we live on a SPINNING BALL WITH WATER STUCK TO IT???!! Where has that ever happened before?!?! You’ve been indoctrinated since kindergarten and now you are doing it to our kids!
@@adamwilbanks2681 literally everywhere you clown. Any life sustaining planet. For you to even say what you said is pathetic and if you honestly believe it then you need to reevaluate your life because you have something wrong with you. I really hope you're joking.
"This is it, its the end of the solar system"
Pluto: *cries*
Jpmz I died laughing at this
sad
The thing is, it really isn't the edge, and Pluto also isn't. It's super fascinating if you look it up, but the solar system includes so much more - the Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, things you've never heard of that would totally blow this model up and aren't even fully clear to scientists. In reality, nobody knows where the border of our solar system is yet. Estimates vary wildly. Mostly it's comets and debris and asteroids out there. Lots of ice.
@@baguettegott3409 well, yeah. sol system, as in 8 planets and 1 star is something we made up. Thosaunds of asteroids and hundreds of comets also come and go, they orbit around the sun. there is no clear border to sol system. it just makes it easier to understand when we talk like there is.
haha except Pluto doesn't exist
On that scale, if you wanted to put a beach ball to represent the nearest star you would still have to leave the earth.
@jslaternyc incredible
true
No prob
But isn’t earth round so you could just make a couple laps around earth 🤷🏻♂️
@@isummer9140 not just a couple
In the Netherlands we have a few of these. We call them Melkwegpad of planetenpad. Some of these walks are 5km long and show the planets in their relative size. Awesome to do with kids!
I'm an argentinian inmigrant living in Netherlands and I didn't know this! Thanks! I wish I have kids to go sometime with them lol
Could you recomend the best one?
Man, Ford has really stepped up their commercials.
Jake Harlinski 😂😂
I was thinking the same exact thing!
Neil deGrasse Tyson agrees :)
Lmao
Jake Harlinski ducking A1 comment
I had no idea of the relative scale of the sun and planets - this video should be compulsory for all schools! These guys need to be thanked by everyone for making it clear that no drawing we've ever seen shows our solar system properly to scale. I'm humbled by their work and by the realisation of how small we really are in our own solar system let alone the universe! Thank you.
Definitely
I watched this in my school. It's truly fascinating, how big the Earth alone is, and the Sun in comparison. And then you realise that is but a microscopic fragment of the Universe. Something we can't even come close to comprehending.
@@dippledopple Rightly Put
I almost cried watching this knowing that we are nothing compared to what else is out there,
I’m kinda weirded out this isn’t common knowledge. Perhaps people don’t realize exactly how vast the distances and sizes of everything is, but at least they ought to know it’s nothing near the illustrations, right?
It’s like the world map thing, where the world map isn’t to scale. I hope that is common knowledge at least.
One of the greatest quotes in the history of man:
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
Why i can like this only once ....
Carl Sagan. Humanist. RIP
Kevin Harris You know what, here in the Philippines, we have a song entitled "Tuldok" which means "dot" in english. It came to me while reading this quotation and watching the video above. The song tells us that we are just dots on earth (in the universe, perhaps) and so we must never be too proud of ourselves. How I pray that every human realizes that simple truth. One love from the Philippines.
Look at this, I find it extraordinary:
th-cam.com/video/zstIQohUDt4/w-d-xo.html
it's beautiful... and sad
My son wants to be an astronaut and we were discussing, during dinner, the scale of the Sun comparing to Earth. He used the pizza crumbs to do it 😂 after a while of him searching for other objects to represent the other planets, I said… let’s see if someone made a video about it on TH-cam. And WOW, were we impressed. Congratulations for one of the most spectacular videos ever. Loved it. So well done. I just kept thinking the amount of pre and post production that it had ❤
W mom
It’s unfortunate that you haven’t recognized reality and that you guys are deceived . There is no solar system. That couldn’t be anymore fake . God created this earth , earth was created a topographical plane with hills and mountains . There is no space . We are the center of creation. This is why the sun and moon revolve around us . Simple as observing it day in and day out. There is no earth orbit. There is no earth curve . Pay attention to your senses and not pseudoscience. You’ve been led astray . We all were. Take the power back and prove things to yourself . Reality . Science. Science is the observation of what is naturally occurring on earth. Observe , hypothesis, test and repeat . The government knows the earth is flat . They don’t want you to know . Pilots know the earth is flat . They will tell you . I have spoken to several , all of them denouncing any account for curvature and rotation. Which if they were truly flying over a curved rotating earth , they would absolutely need to account for curve and rotation. That is the Coriolis effect. Please don’t rebut with some response that is emotional. If you want to have a conversation I’m more than happy to do so. I don’t want any disrespect or name calling. I will not participate in childlike “debates”. I’m sure the shills will be here. We need to be informed and inform our families . The time is wearing thin. I hope the best for you and yours
Hope he gets to be one of the few people who get to cover the world with their thumb.
You are a wonderful parent. Instead of discouraging him from his dreams, you encouraged him!
thats very cool
This isn't on trending? This is literally one of the most thought out, planned video's which took time and dedication to actually recreate and upload rather than just some shitty editing. Kudos to you all!
It was top on the trending list for quite a while when it came out two years ago...
A Rocket yes but EpicGuider saw it recently and his timeline is ALL that matters. Obviously you learned nothing from the video
EpicGuider0 completely agree, a video which takes planning and intelligence as well as great editing. youtube trending is very poorly done
That's because this video was stolen and re uploaded by this channel.
EpicGuider0 3
"Everything you've ever known... All behind your thumb." -Jim Lovell
Really puts things in perspective.
Not only everything youve ever know... Also everything that has ever been know to anyone in the entire history of humankind... All behind your thumb
And what about the Sun and Stars?
And the Galaxys and Galaxys and Galaxys ad infinitum?
They don't count then?
And they've not even left Earth's backyard way out at the moon!
@@mr.evasion my thoughts exactly. The earth is supposed to be 4 times bigger than the moon but its about the same size looking back from the moon? The Apollo 11 crew in the interview that looked like they were on stand in court than achieving the greatest human achievement said they couldn't see stars but now all the astronauts now talk about stars planets and galaxies....
@@jasonclark6194 full of shit freemasons
This would be a great permanent installation, with little train tracks for the planets. It would feature in all of the documentaries!
Now that's a Kickstarter I'd get behind
If you're talking about burning man then sure, elites do whatever they want with the event know so who cares it's still a waste of money.
A HUGE AMOUNT OF RESPECT to the entire team who voluntarily did this amazing solar system scale. As a space-time enthusiast, I could really feel the passion and efforts you guys put into this video.
Just a fun fact, I calculated that at this scale (in the video), the entire length of the Milky Way Galaxy would be 1.18x10^9km, which is exactly 7.88 Astronomical Units. Which means that in the video, if that was the ACTUAL solar system, in that desert of planet Earth: the Milky Way Galaxy would have a bigger diameter than the distance from the sun to Jupiter (around 5 AU's). But closer than Saturn (around 10 AU's).
And the observable universe at this scale would be ~1.52x10^14 km, or about 16 light years in size!
Post malone
Wow.
THAT'S HOW THEY HOOKED YOU...MESMERIZED YOU WITH NUMBERS SO BIG YOU CANT FATHOM. DONT BE DUPED...THE SUN AND MOON ARE VERY CLOSE AND THOSE STARS ARE JUST AS CLOSE. THE EARTH IS FLAT AND WE ARE UNDER A DOME. RESEARCH OPERATION FISHBOWL. WE ARE GODS CROWNING GLORY...WE ARE HIS FOOTSTOOL. NASA IS A FRAUD.
@flat earth genius this is my favorite youtube comment ever
I'm a senior, and very little impresses me anymore. This impressed the hell out of me. You have given me a piece of knowledge I never had before...and even though I am 7 years late to the party...I just wanted to thank you so very, very much...that was a lovely gift you have given me!
if this is filmed somewhere in USA, the closest star Proxima Centauri , on this scale would be somewhere in Central Europe.
@@alexd9735 Are you sure? I'm getting 43,000 km (almost 4 times the diameter of the Earth).
@@hassassinator8858 I am not sure. Please do not use my calculation if you plan to embark on trip to Proxima. :)
@@alexd9735...That's the nicest reaction I've ever gotten from someone I argued against. Hats off to you, Alex!
@@hassassinator8858 well when you lose the argument, it means you learned something new, so least I could is being nice :)
"Why are you here?" "I don't have a job."
- greatest answer ever!🤣😂🤣
Juan Torres and my trust fund keeps me off the streets
I drive a transport truck. I have some remarkable conversations with complete strangers. This video has come up in a shockingly large number of them. Brilliant work, folks. Thank you. You’re inspiring a generation, and educating several others. People’s preconceived notions of what they need to worry about simply fade away into quiet awe when they see this. It can bring peace to some folks, simply because of the perspective. This video should have been viewed at TIFF, among other places. And it should be (and probably is, in some) viewed in every science classroom in the world.
Thanks Dave, that means a lot.
"I don't have a job"
*Laughs*
*Slowly Falls Into Deppression*
Andres Gonzalez something to do with Johnny Depp, I suppose.
"Hello, darkness my old friend. I've come to talk with you again..."
hahaha
911 likes. Gl m8
Andres Gonzalez not having a job doesnt habe to put you in a depression. You can be totally free from stress and have all the time to think and enjoy your life on a planet the size of a marble floating around in space of nothing.
This is the rarest kind of TH-cam video. The kind where you come away thinking that you've just been given a gift.
Agree. I felt the same way after watching this.
"I have the world in my pocket somewhere"
This is the best comment.!! 👍
I was looking for this comment. :’)
God when creating the world
Nolan Beal it sounds so accidentally inspirational
@@porc1429 fuck you
I don't know how I've never seen this video before, but thankfully that changed moments ago. I've had a lifelong interest in astronomy, and I've understood the sizes and distances involved for more than half a century...but this somehow made an emotional impact I was NOT expecting. Brought me to tears, in fact. Thank you!
6:10 "Everything that you have ever known,... all behind your thumb."
The way he delivers that line gives me chills. That hardcore perspective on just how small we are.
www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/earth/pale-blue-dot.html
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
We aren't THAT small. Simply invert the process and compare our world to that of an atom and then imagine that atom and then keep going. We're actually very huge from that perspective. So yeah.. There's a daily dose of balance for ya.
Craig Corson
Appreciate that correction!
@@RaveMasterSRB Oh please. We ARE microbes compared to the universe. If you don't know that, you have no perspective.
The earth is twice the diameter of the moon (about four times the size that we see the moon). If I hold my thumb up at arms distance I cannot block out the moon. From the perspective from the moon the earth should be the size of your fist at arms length. Basic science, just saying.
Everyone once in a while I come back to this video just to remind myself of the sheer volume of it all. I shall, someday, to return again.
Same
Ok dude.
every once in awhile I come back here to see how many people have been fed this b******* and believe it
@@killerkooodaaa Based!
returned
What impresses me most is the gravity of the sun. It's still catching Neptune on such an incredible distance.
Look at voyager 1. It just left gravitational pull area of the sun. And it's far away from the kuiper's belt, which is furthest matter group in solar system.
It really makes you understand the *gravity* of the situation.
Adrian Sommeling that’s not exactly true
From what I understand, its more a re-directing of its trajectory than it is a catching.
thats just what i was thinking
As a Geographer, I love this. Thank you so much. Scale matters. Our place in the universe is fragile and needs to be protected.
Its incredible how far the suns gravitation pull goes.
You were sleeping during high school physics, right?😂😂
It's a legitimate observation. But, they say that gravity is a weak force when compared to others. That always struck me as odd.
@@JerryInGeorgia gravity is "comparatively" a weak force. But it extends to infinity nevertheless, the gravitational pull just becomes weaker and weaker and the orbit changes accordingly. At infinite distance, orbit is just a straight line.
They say as far out as the oort cloud. Hard to comprehend.
@@ameya5054 well yeah, I was not absolutely correct to call it an orbit, since the orbits can only be elliptical or circular in shape. But please read on, I have given the reasons of me saying so in paragraphs below.
I called it straight line to stress the point that just before the trajectory of the body becomes straight line (no gravitational force experienced by the bodies), trajectory is not straight and hence the force can be experienced. Although just before it becomes a straight line, the trajectory is most probably hyperbolic, that means that although effects of gravity is experienced, but the body is not in orbit.
A good way to visualise this is that the radius of curvature of the trajectory (of smaller body) keeps on increasing as the distance between the body increases and as the distance tends to infinity, the radius tends to infinity as well. And an infinite radius of curvature is a straight line.
Straight line just means that, no effect of gravity whatsoever. At infinite distance gravitational force becomes zero.
Welcome to another episode of random TH-cam algorithms.
But this one is the best of them all.
I'm a high school astronomy teacher and this just popped up on my TH-cam feed as I was making a powerpoint for class. Will be showing this to class tomorrow if I have time when I'm done with my lecture.
@@EricBurns1 Awesome! If you need to show them the scale of cosmic evolution, check out our most recent film.
@@ToScale Will do! That'll probably come up in a few months!
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
------ Carl Sagan
my favorite quote
Carl Sagan, helped me to understand everything I know about space and time.
@AbdiMarmalade I also thought of this quote when he said that. Such a powerful concept. He was awesome.
Epic. The very definition of why we should master space. We fight so much over territories here on earth, when we were given more than enough for trillions of humans. You just have to find and develop new worlds, and expand. We should not be a species dependent on what is given, we are a species born to expand and discover.
I kinda hate that quote, I mean like, we get it, we live on Earth and thankfully people are most inclined to think about what concerns them which is all matters on Earth. Yes Earth is tiny compared to the universe but who cares like stfu
Now how big do your problems seem?
+SuperSaf TV I love your videos.
+SuperSaf TV Considering I don't have time or money to do such a cool project, bigger than these guys's problems.
Miniclash Nice.
+Miniclash Well put, well put!
But, alternatively, how big are your accomplishments now?
We are very very small.
I'll never get over the immensity of the Universe.
Me neither
Lew King Nobody ever will. No matter how far technology progresses, there are still limits to how far we can see and travel. Barring the possibility of extraterrestrial tutoring, we'll never know what it's really all about.
It is absolutely mind-boggling. The sheer scale of the emptiness around our vulnerable planet is humbling.
A year or two ago I saw a similar video to this, made by a guy in southern England, who made a scale model of the solar system, and then drove the scale distance to the next closest star, Proxima Centauri, which took him across the channel, all the way through France and a short distance over the Spanish border.
With the planets being so far from the sun, this really shows how strong and pervasive is gravity: it keeps the solar system together across such distances.
It's even more amazing as gravity is the weakest of the basic forces.
@@BikeArea it is the weakest force, but it operates across great distances - across the width of galaxies
Yes, and yet at the same time it is so weak.
I think there was a Royal Institution Christmas Lecture that opened with the lecturer being let down on a rope into the auditorium.
His point was to show how a thin rope - maybe an inch thick, could counterbalance the entire gravitational pull from the mass of the earth (around 6 trillion trillion kilograms) on his body.
Yet it's the weakest of the 4 fundamental forces.
I think gravity is less a force, more a distortion of space.
Guy; "and we've reached the edge of the solar system"
Pluto: Am I a joke to you?
He may be. But he's My lovely beautiful joke
Yes, you are: now pull yourself together and find a purpose to your life!
Pluto is smaller than the moon and many other moons in the solar system. Hardly a planet. Just a slightly bigger round thing out there among millions of other big round things.
But it’s still part of our solar system.
@@androsGali so is sedna, eris and ceres and noone gives a damn about them
In Melbourne, Australia they have a scale model of the solar system.....5+km long to walk it....you can buy a coffee on your journey from Jupiter to the rest of the outer planets. :-)
Thanks for the info! Will check it out :)
God bless Australians
Is it free public to walk?
There’s one in outback S.A on the side of the highway that goes for 100’s if KM too
Kate Li yep it’s along the beach in port Melbourne
The thing that staggers me the most is that since the replica sun and the real sun are the same size from the replica of Earth's orbit, that means that the view of the sun from the perspective of the other replica planet's orbits are accurate as well. For example if you guys made the same replica solar system but on Mars, the real sun over the Martain surface would match the replica sun from replica Mars' orbit.
I was thinking the same. I wish they would have shown that more in the video. Neptune must be so dark. It would see the sun as a tiny dot no bigger than what we see as stars.
Thank you
Guys I am a Science teacher and this video seriously touched my heart. I love Science and the way you presented the info in this video is beyond words. I am going to show this to my students during our Astronomy class. Thank you guys. You earned my sub.
Viewed from above, how does the solar system rotate? See at 3:24.
This is so awesome. It blew my mind to think how much energy the sun emits to heat all the way to here. This literally warms the earth and you can feel that heat in your body on a sunny day.
This has been on my mind for a while as well. Basically since I first saw the real scale distances and planet sizes on some webpage I dont recollect name od anymore. The amount of energy coming from the sun must be unimaginably enormous. And the fact, we are just at the right spot not to freeze or burn is mindboggling.
Astronomy always overwhelms me when I try to make sense of it. Your comment is spot on.
@@Invictusestas I've come to terms with this by realizing because that perfect environment created out of trillion random events in universe, a self aware species like us exist. We simply wouldn't have contemplated these thoughts if such a perfect bubble didn't exist in first place. Now either we are the universally rare and the only ones or just one of many out there - what's more profound scenario, that maybe a good food for thought.
@@stig1872 this comment 👌
@@stig1872 At the end of the day - are we really alone ? Or is there other intelligent life out there?…. Both of these prospects are equally unnerving 😨
Google 'If the moon were only 1 pixel'. It honestly blows my mind about how gigantic our solar system is...
I can't even comprehend how small we are in this universe.
+TalentlessHumour joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
+Koan Media OMG! I've been to see the black and I've lost my mind.
+TalentlessHumour My Index finger hurts and my scroll wheel is broken.
Schwatvogel
arrow keys.
+Schwatvogel hit the 'light speed' button (horizontal lines with the letter 'c' and you'll be travelling at the speed of light).
One of the most memorable days in my education was day 1 of my Geology 101 class at a community college in Texas. The professor attempted to create a similar scaled model of the Solar System with the class. She brought marbles, tennis balls, a basket ball, etc. to represent the planets (we didn’t have a model for the Sun but she told us how big it would be.) We went out a few blocks and I think we only made it to Mars before she told us how much farther we’d need to go if we want to make it to Pluto (which was still a planet back then!) It was the fascination of how small we are and how much there is to know in the Universe that made that day so memorable. That day I also reaffirmed my decision to major in Geophysics, which has become a big part of my career and of my life in general. I wish I remember that professor’s name, but always think of her, of how with a thoughtfully crafted lesson she became so influential in my life! I will be forever grateful to her and to all science teacher who often go unappreciated but who with their passion inspire our curiosity, imagination, and dreams! Thanks to you all! 🙏
Something easier to do without needing a 7 mile stretch of flat desert is "The Thousand-Yard Model or, The Earth as a Peppercorn" by Guy Ottewell (copyright 1989). There are pdfs of his planet walk at various university websites and a few webpage versions. The scale of the planets is smaller, so that it all fits (including Pluto) in about 1,000 yards (914.4 meters). So with the Earth being a peppercorn, the Sun is roughly the size of a playground ball (8in or 20.3cm). When I did it for my daughter's 3rd grade class (8 years old), we walked the circumference of the playground, since we could not leave school grounds. It still conveyed the distance and is sobering to look at.
FYI, Pluto is still a dwarf planet, just no longer a major planet. Pluto is joined by Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Sedna, Ceres, and Orcus. Ceres is in the asteroid belt and all of the rest are beyond Neptune.
It went from a cool experiment to an introspective soul-touching experience. Well done.
What's mind blowing is that even if humanity were to somehow travel at the speed of light, we wouldn't get very far at all in this galaxy. It takes 45 minutes for light from the Sun to reach Jupiter, and five hours for it to reach Pluto. The speed of light may be fast to us, but it's pretty much slower than walking speed to the universe.
for light, it takes literally no time lol
The nearest star takes 4 and a half YEARS for light to get to.
Just Some Guy without a Mustache And it would take 100 000 years to get across our solar system
Martin Zika correct
@@olestokke no it's 1.6 years for our solar system. It's 100,000 years for our galaxy.
Atoms are also not to scale. Electrons actually orbit ridiculous distances away from the nucleus compared to their size.
TheGreatSeraphim _ How about the Protons?
the most accurate model we have as an electron we portray them as waves, soooooo yah
That would be a great idea for a next chapter on this channel
They should make one of these
I heard that a marble(nucleus) in the middle of a stadium(electrons) is a pretty accurate model
I am truly impressed and blown away by the immense effort they have invested in crafting this 7-minute video. Such an underrated channel.
At this scale, the nearest star (Proxima Centauri) would be 29,266 miles away. Put another way, if the distance between the Sun and the Earth were represented as a single inch, that distance would still be 4.21 miles. The scale of the universe is unimaginable.
Justin Wodicka WOW 😱
As a kid, I remember Apollo 11 leaving Earth on my birthday. I also remember Walter Cronkite telling us they were travelling faster than a bullet yet it was going to take 4 days to get there. That was my first introduction to the vastness of space.
Same here. As a 12 year old I listened to the lunar landing on my father's Hellicrafter radio 📻 on the Voice of America 🇺🇸 broadcast. As a 12 year old I could not work out those strange 'ping' sounds between sentences.
Ditto. What a time to be 9 years old
The only thing I remember about Walter Cronkite is him saying he is proud to be standing at the right hand of Satan.
Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the Moon on my 12th birthday. It was 21st July in the UK. For many years 21st July was recognised here as the anniversary, but now it is almost remembered on the 20th; the date in the US at the time of the walk!
I had just turned 16 and had tears in my eyes just as Walter Cronkite had as he was reporting them walking on the moon. I was always a space nut.
10 years later:
OH MY GOD GUYS ALIENS DREW THESE CIRCLES BUT WHAT DO THEY MEAN?
「Lih / Liam.」 THEY MATCH UP EXACTLY WITH THE PLANETS’ ORBITS GUYS THERE ARE ALIENS ON MARS
In 10 years those circles will be gone
Ders972
NEEERRRDDD
@@dungww2006 you are making up conversations about aliens and you are calling me the nerd?
I bet you have space pajamas and Super Mario bed sheets dumbass
@@ders972 Have you ever heard about something called joke?
This continues to be one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen
I still watch this like every week
same
Marit Aurin OMG same
What does it say we didn't already know?
There are many more fascinating things to ponder over within our universe/s
Marit Aurin ARMY (do you still watch it every week or is it the Not Today music video now lol)
+The Little Hotaru Josie i've got to say Not Today took its place XD
"I have the world in my pocket"
Knowing the universe has always created a sense of longing for me.
I've spent a lot of time staring at the stars...
(In Super Mario Galaxy)
the longing for adventure and discovery is part of the human condition.we just have more questions than answers i guess.
this is beautifully put
I feel the same way. I wasted my life working to survive when I should have been an astrophysicist. I've read on the topic every day since I was about 3 or 4. I'm 45 and I've just started reading about quantum physics. I thought it wouldn't interest me. At some point it occurred to me that the scale of things that exist goes on from our size into the large-scale, and also into the small scale. What I understood at 3 or 4 by reading "Horton Hears a Who" I've rediscovered as an adult. Every large body in space is made of atoms, which like the planets and galaxies, are made up of mostly empty space. And The Force is reality. Don't waste your life working to make someone else rich. Do what you love. "Follow your bliss." ~Dr. Joseph Campbell
This video is not only one of the best videos on TH-cam, but is one of the best videos ever made and it stands together with the "Pale Blue Dot" narrated by Carl Sagan.
Every person on this planet needs to watch them.
"To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." -Carl Sagan
Sir you're absolutely true!
Yup. But Pinochet I must say, your record on human rights is nothing pro humanity.
Couldnt help reading that out loud in my mind in his voice.
Loved Carl Sagan and his perspectives... Need more like him
@@chrismoderate3495 they were communists, Chris.
The marbled Earth rolling across the cracked dry desert floor was epic.
Beautiful project. Would’ve been amazing to see the end result from a drone’s perspective - and maybe see their elliptical orbits as well.
Expected the same..
I was waiting for that
Yeah, I kinda feel more dumb after watching this video because all I saw was those curved lights rolling around on the floor for a few seconds and my non-scientific brain was "Oh, well, whatever, I still don't grasp the scale of all this". I was expecting to see the scale from above to comprehend it.
Anyway, I do appreciate their efforts to go out to the desert and filming all this for us.
It was 6 years ago , drones weren't much popualar
Yeah I don't get why they went to all that trouble and money spent and didn't have a drone shot at the end?...
“Everything that you’ve ever known, all behind your thumb”
That concept blew my mind
the amount of time put into this is so incredible you really dedicated your time to this for other people to see and it's truly amazing thank you so much ( also im watching this 6 years later so just think this video is still touching people years later )
Next: To Scale: THE ENTIRE VISIBLE UNIVERSE
Like so they see
i was actually joking idk if ppl realized that
Rift Music that'd be impossible
The nearest extra-solar star is around 47000km away using the same scale as in the video.
make galaxies the size of a marble
but of course, all of the land would be covered in marbles
Respect on the effort this took to make.
I don't know why every time I'm stressed or lost I come back to this video
That's 7:07 mins well spent on TH-cam. Rare. Thanks for this video. Set the perspective right. Cheers.
Subhajeet Sahu ikr
Wait till you see one of those Red bull or go pro videos
th-cam.com/video/VjbjnuFApKg/w-d-xo.html
Well said
the approximate time that sunlight travel to earth.
can you make a 1:1 model for perspective? thanks
It's been here for 4.5 billion years!
You're already on one.
tpaairman wow that was fast
His name was Robert Paulson
Yo nice video 8/10 ...BUT... friends we were all waiting to see a shot from the sky to see how your scale looked
it probably would have been hard to keep the drone stable while they drove around the orbits, and without that orbit visualization you likely would not have been able to see the tiny planets.
They need a helicopter and a good camera and a LOT of donations to get the shot you want. I want to see it too!
For filming that, the man has to be located at an altitude of 7-10kms with a wide angle full frame camera from where it might get impossible to see planets and sun and may be the orbits. As the orbits are made from the carving wheels of car.
They spent their helicopter budget on condoms. Ok that was mean and unnecessary.
Peiyu Lin yeah, technically the drone would require to be at least above 5000 meters above the ground to capture it vertically.
We wouldn't be able to see anything from such a height.
No wonder why they didnt do it!
It is staggering, and no matter how many times I think of it, leaves me in awe. Thank you team for doing this. This video and the scale of time should be watched by every human being to remember how fragile and precious our existence really is.
And then there is Pluto, a dwarf planet so far out, that it hasn't even made half of it’s rotation around the Sun since we found it.
That's nuts
it’s not a planet
@@immersegrafx its a dwarf PLANET
*revolution around the Sun. Rotation is turning based on its axis.
Lordmemeacus ... which isn’t a PLANET ... dumbass ...
"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest, but consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us".
-Carl Sagan
6 years later, this video still fascinates me. I remember seeing it for the first time 6 years ago, and I can say without doubt that my entire perspective on life changed. It showed just how small we really are compared to the overall size of the solar system.
This video is easily one of, if not the most influential video I've ever seen, and it will be eternally underrated. Very well done guys!
I recommend reading the pale blue dot essay/speech.
Most impressive method of conveying the scale. Loved it and it looked like a great adventure to make. I think that it’s time to build on to what you’ve already given us with current technology. More angles on the original project. Maybe superimposing massive stars and zooming out to include Pluto, the Oort Cloud & even Proxima Centauri. Anything is possible now. Big thanks so far!
Would love this! Might be hard to film tho - I just did the calc and proxima centauri would be almost 7000 miles away 🤯
I wish they'd got a drone and filmed it from above
Taking the drone to such a height as to cover the entire range will probably result in violating a few aviation laws :P
I know. I was so sad
Was expecting aerial shots as well
Wouldve been nice, but still very happy with end result.👍
This video is almost 5 years old. In the geologic timescale, drones were invented yesterday :P that’s why they set up their camera on the “nearby mountain”
A flatearther’s greatest fear is sphere itself. This video if fantastic!
ROFL!
Swaggy Swag 😂😂👍🏼
Johan sigurdson Troll
This video is stupid. Its Flat!!!
Jesse Trevino
Oh, really? Have any evidence for that?
It's encouraging that this kind of content can get nearly 8 million views. I was starting to think only stuff like boobie thumbnail clickbait and dancing kittens got millions of views.
Thomes Maisling theres some crazy things that get millions of views, not just trends
They get about 80m million views. They are more in number.
800m I'll say.
1% is about right.
ACCURATE! i resent that shitty vids get so much views.
I thought this had boobies on the beach
There is still hope.
I thought about what to write about this great video, but I couldn't think of anything clever. All I could think of was wow...
when he said “you are on a marble, floating in the middle of nothing.” i finally found the word to describe ‘space’ itself after all this time. Space is literally nothing with floating rocks, and that amazes me that our world is bigger than earth itself. space is an amazing yet scary phenomenon.
Only thing is, space is the opposite of literally nothing.
They are lying to us!
God exist
6:37 Job 27.7
"He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing."
I agree....except "you are on a bb".
Really lets you take in appreciation how hard it is to land something on another body.
OP Barricuda landing on other bodies is actually very easy once you are in orbit around earth. There's not nearly as much delta v required to reach planets like neptune, and if the mission is planned extremely well, then efficiency can be increased greatly with repeated small burns at perigee to the earth and with gravity assists. The only body that's hard to land on is mars because of its low density atmosphere yet high gravity
When you say "very easy" - where is that on the intellectual scale of New-born to Einstein? I mean, considering the amount of people who actually plan these things compared to the general population - i'd say its not your average Joe's mathematics at play here. Interplanetary trajectory planning is pretty impressive.
I mean, Solar System models typically negate the fact that the whole system itself is corkscrewing through space and the planets are never where they were in space the last time they were in that position in orbit. Calculating the error out of these Heliocentric models is easy to get wrong, and it has been wrong before.
ChrisWhite85 i meant that it was easy relative to people who have a basic understanding of orbital mechanics. The general population though thinks that for instance the apollo mission space craft flew pointing towards the moon to get there haha
I landed something on another body just last night
OP Barricuda it's incredibly easy to land on another body, just expensive
Well done my friend. +1
I am 66. I was blessed to live at a time when man first entered space and eventually step foot on the moon. From President Kennedy's famous speech about putting a man on the moon to staying up late in front of a 19" black & white TV [at the time it was consider a BIG screen TV] watching live Neil Armstrong step foot where no man had stepped before. Also lived those scary moments too. From when Russia launching Sputnik 1 [1st satellite in space], to the Apollo 13 nail bitter and the two space shuttle disasters. What an exciting time it was to be alive.
Is...to be alive, you're not dead yet.
Everything you say is so true.
I was just about 6 when Armstrong landed. I remember that no kids where out playing. Everyone was glued to there tv sets.
And some years later, you realize it's a lie.
Alexa You're an insult to the brave people who risked their lives on the Apollo project, including 3 astronauts who died on the Launchpad, and the crew of Apollo 13 who almost didn't make it back.
Came back to this years later. This is just such a beautiful video, encapsulating the wonder of what it is to be human. The equlibrium of being totally unique and totally insignificant.
Thanks! Check out our new film on time for more feelings of profound insignificance.
Amazing video.
I did something like that more than 40 years ago when I was 12 years old on an empty beach in the northern of Portugal.
In an illustrated book I learned the sizes of all the planets in the solar system and their distances from the sun. But those huge numbers were just that, numbers. I had to do something to be able to grasp its meaning. So I planned an experiment. I reduced the size of the sun to the size of a soccer ball and then got marbles and tiny balls made of bubble gum to simulate the planets to scale.
I was immediately amazed by the immensity of the sun. But as soon as I did the math for the distances between the sun and the planets, I came to the conclusion that I couldn't run the simulation in my backyard. I needed a lot more space.
It was a sunny day in midwinter when I took the balls to the beach. I placed the soccer ball in the sand and counted steps towards Mercury, then Venus, then Earth (also with the moon at the right distance), then Mars, then Jupiter (the biggest marble), then... no more. Saturn was already too far away to be able to visualize it together.
As the marbles and the tiny balls were too small to be seen in the distance, I made a small pile of sand under each one of them. At least I would be able to visualize their positions.
I then walked away a few dozen meters to a dune higher up and stood there admiring this crazy layout with more than 100m for a long time. I also imagined where Saturn and the rest of the planets would be (Pluto was still one of them).
The distances between the sun and the planets were incredible. The solar system was essentially empty space after all.
I discovered something that day. I turned numbers into images and discovered their true meaning. It was ecstatic...
A few years ago, and now as amateur astronomer, I decided that I had to make a terrestrial globe perfectly synchronized with the Earth motion. That's what I did.
Watch the video of my invention. I'm trying hard to put it on the market.
th-cam.com/video/Sb_A9HICQDg/w-d-xo.html
Lol you're a good sheep
Nice salesman
@@Freebyrd1991 Is being a dumb jackass more impressive than being a sheep?
I just want to say I love every single thing about this video. The idea, the music, the camera angels, the marbles, how the text and the marbles get lit up simultaneously... I'm so inspired by this, I learned so much editing techniques because of this video, like motion tracking, I even bought my first camera because I want to create something like this. This is absolutely my favourite video ever.
Thank you! We read the comments and yours was especially nice to read. If you ever want to talk filmmaking, reach out!
@@ToScale thank YOU!! I remembered reading you replied somewhere that a new video will come out soon, I’m sooo expecting to watch it. Congrats for your new work!
I'm complete and sincerely grateful for this video. All my life I've always been described as an artist, and as such, everyone (including me) thought that I was going to follow an art related career. Three years ago I watched Interstellar, and when the film ended, with tears in my eyes, I looked up at my mother with complete joy and told her "this is it, this is what I want to study for the rest of my life". I've never understood what drives my unexplainable passion towards space, I've never understood why everytime I talk about it I start crying for no apparent reason. But what I know is that those are things that should not be ignored.
Today I accidentally came across with this video, and again, after three years, I'm feeling this powerful connection with space. So thank you, because now, once again, i'm completely sure that I want to study astrophysics!
(sorry for any mistake, I'm not a native English speaker :)
Your English is impeccable 👌🏾
@@m.cdeborde8483 Thanks!
Follow your bliss only that will get you back home.
“and he decreed the appointed times and the set limits of where men would dwell, 27 so that they would seek God, if they might grope for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us.”
You miss your home planet, you have been reincarnated into a human?
Jk, follow your dreams. Sounds like you have never gave up, good for you 👍👍.
This really made me feel how small we are. and how vast the universe is. Thank you!
The guy who found out Neptune just by pen and paper is so admirable.
Absolutely. It's unthinkable.
Mathematics is like a language of the Universe, it explains and can discover things. Science is truly amazing.
It comes from an old book veda, a sanskrit book. Ancient astronomer knows every planet.
@@shitsureishimasu.13611 No it absolutely does not. You insult the Vedic tradition by claiming that lie. Uranus and Neptune were added only recently.
@@shitsureishimasu.13611 People saw them but thought they were stars
Man 1:Why did you come?
Man 2:"I DONT HAVE A JOB"
Legendary!🔥
Michael Cantuba finally someone said it! 😂😂😂😂
My daughter just turned seven years old and she's just starting to ask questions about whether we are alone. Any rational answer must include both an honest "we don't know" and a discussion of scale in terms of how it affects the likelihood that we are indeed unique (spoiler: it's unlikely). This video helped bring that point home perfectly. It's also amazing to watch her (or me for that matter) try to comprehend the next frames of reference, like a galaxy, or a nebula, let alone the entire universe, observable or otherwise. Thank you for this.
Joe Rogan would say that it's *entirely possible* we are not alone.
I am 13 year old and I kept asking my Dad the same thing!
Gilbert Tang hey man I’m not trying to teach u how to parent n don’t know your girl but I would wait until she’s older like 16 to dump that kind of information on her it can really weigh on a kids head if they think too much existentially
Yes.. we are alone. in otherwords dont be fooled by NASA and space as its a great deception that goes way further then the imagination of "Aliens"
Scale has absolutely no relevance whatsoever in regards to liklihood of intelligent life outside our planet.
Even the sun seems so small in this empty space. Thanks for this great job. So instructive, and so poetic !
Y'all, this is THE BEST film on TH-cam. It genuinely is. This is absolutely incredible. In concept, in execution, funny, sweet, profound. Seriously. This is the best.
Great music choices :)
The song in the middle is "Promises (Nils Frahm Version) - The Presets"
And the last one? I just can't find it, and I need it in my life! Hahaha. Pls, help.
Look at the end of the video :)
I have, but when I search the name that is shown at the end, "Quiet - Rhodes", it's imposible to find it! On TH-cam nor Google.
Yea I tried too :c
Thank you.
They didn't include Pluto...
*Breathing intensifies*
If You miss Pluto why You don't miss Ceres then? Or bunch of others dwarf planets in Kupier's belt?
@@wyliewright202 r/whooosh
I know Pluto isn't a planet anymore. I just happen to like pluto, like many others as well. It was a joke, dammit. This video was awesome and this was not meant to be criticism.
Pluto doesn't have to be a planet, it's still part of the solar system.
But to be fair, they can't reasonably include every body in our system, because there are so many it would take months to set up. And if they tried the make the *entire* system to scale, all the way out to the Oort cloud... You'd need pretty much a small country's worth of space.
R.I.P Pluto
@@kingjojojo1 And we can only wonder what miracles are on moons of Saturn and Jupiter only... It doesnt matter on witch kind of celestial body are remarkable things. Pluto simply doesnt fit in planet definition. Period.
Around 30 years ago there was a show on either TLC or Discovery (back when they did educational shows) that did just this. I loved it. Just as I love this video. They also did their best to impart to the viewer not just the size and proportion of our solar system but the awesome beauty and how mind blowing this information is. I love honest to goodness science videos that are for the sake of science, education and expanding minds. You guys did a wonderful job. Keep it up if you can. This is a treasure.
Not including Pluto it's like when your parents tell you to not invite your best friend over anymore for Christmas because he's not family...they are right but it's just mean...
wooex best explanation for poor Pluto
I think they couldve put an "honorary light" up on one of the far hills to represent Pluto.. that would have been classy 😀💛🌎
wooex 😆❤
Will there be a remake to fix the issue of pluto? And don't forget there is Planet X.
JOLI TORAX Not really. I mean, c'mon. I've grown up with the notion, nah, the firmly planted knowledge, that Pluto is part of our solar system. Now I feel bereft. They kicked out Pluto for being what? Too diminutive? If our solar system was a company and Pluto an employee, anti discrimination laws would be kicking in here. Fired for being a midget? See ya in court... ;O)
You could add the fact that this whole system of almost nothing is racing through space. So these circles that represent the orbits of the planets aren't circles but actually kind of sine waves. That's so amazing. We should live in peace together on this beauty little spaceship called 'earth'.
The reference frame used here is the heliocentric frame (in which the Sun is at rest), which is just as valid as any other reference frame. For example the galactic frame, the frame you are describing, in which the galactic core of the Milky Way is at rest.
Well, My travels include Oahu, Hawaii, Brunswick, Maine, and Key West, Florida at the extremes, and I was born in Memphis, Tennessee. I also have had residences in Memphis, TN, Jacksonville, FL, Anaheim, Oxnard, CA, and Jupiter and Hobe Sound, FL. I have driven through or slept in many other states, so it is a little more than 30-40 miles.
Since the orbits are predominantly elliptical it's not really a sine curve. Those animations are often shared by rather unscientific channels.
petabyte99 we should doesn't do anything unfortunately there is beyond evil on this earth. Arm yourself
I actually hate that people reference and share those models in a rather unscientific way. frame of reference is everything.
I love that Usain Bolt can run to Mercury in under 6 seconds.
Imagine you are just looking at mercury through your telescope and then seeing usain bolt just running towards it
The 4th comment to hit 50 Likes !
Nope. He wil burn out!
@@Sigma3095 What's the problem? Just go there at night.
Only juiced, he can. It's 7 seconds sharp when clean.
This video never gets old.
Always teaches us how big our Solar system is. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hats off to the people involved in creation of this masterpiece ❤
Yes our solar system is tremendous compared to us on earth yet our solar system is microscopic when compared to the universe. It hurts my brain to even attempt to comprehend it. I got annoyed that I had a leak on my roof and I just thought...really, that's what you are annoyed at? When something doesn't go right I just think about how small we are.
_"Venus is the same size as earth"_
Astronomical OCDs: *TRIGGERED*
Atomas X bruh I literally said to myself “no way they’re exactly the same smh” 😂😂
@@doom-driveneap4569 Cosmologically they are the same size. The difference is marginal.
@@hatskeleton635 Cosmology: the engineering of space
Saul Goode hairbrainedead? The fuck?
I KNOW RIGHT
If anyone just came here to see the distances here they are:
Mercury: 68 m / 224 ft 2:25
Venus: 120 m / 447 ft 2:34
Earth: 176m / 579 ft 2:45
Mars: 269 m / 881 ft 2:56
Jupiter: 0.92 km / 0.57 mi 3:28
Saturn: 1.7 km / 1.1 mi 3:40
Uranus: 3.4 km / 2.1 mi 3:58
Neptune: 5.6 km / 3.5 mi 4:33
Uranus is 3.4 km away from the camera
So in distance of this proportion , where is located the nearest star Proxima Centauri ? 47 000 km ?
@@laodicea3513
I just saw it in another comment but forgot. If you don't mind scrolling, the answer is here somewhere.
🌍🍃🔭🌙✨🛸
forgot PLUTO
@@iancharlessnot a planet anymore just because it's too far and small
By this scale Betelgeuse would have a diameter of over a kilometre, and our Milky Way Galaxy would be several hundred times larger than the actual full scale solar system that our Earth completes.
Like, imagine that little marble Earth with its own humans making its own scale model. A Milky Way Galaxy on THAT scale would engulf a circular radius of around a thousand kilometres, making it easily visible from space *in actual scale.*
Gin Chan Beware people, you should not read the above comment if you're drunk or high.
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Chandu JR you're high
That is AMAZING. Best comment I've read in a long time
Link, Meme of Cinder now that would make a good vid.
This is fantastic guys! I enjoyed watching this a couple of times. I am in awe about our universe and it’s size and you all brought this into perspective here on earth for us. Thank you.
"The Earth is a grand oasis in the vastness of space"
-Astronaut Jim Lovell
This is amazing. From all of the astrophysics things I’ve watched, this has blown my mind the most. I can’t believe how small they are and yet somehow how large.
Beautiful. My daughter is 6 and wants to “take care of animals in space”. Videos like this feed tomorrows explorers. Bravo, strong work, well done.
Why is there only 5 likes on this comment?
Bless her heart
Maby some day she will
This is really really amazing .And for their passion to show us the real scale model of our solar system. Every kid in their schooling must be shown to this video.