To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2015
- On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.
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A film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh
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Guys, this video seriously touched me. Automatically on my RUclips´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?
"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
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 RUclips. 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!
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!
"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 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.
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.
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!
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
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.
“Everything that you’ve ever known, all behind your thumb”
That concept blew my mind
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
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
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:
ruclips.net/video/zstIQohUDt4/видео.html
it's beautiful... and sad
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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...
This is the rarest kind of RUclips 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.
"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
It is absolutely mind-boggling. The sheer scale of the emptiness around our vulnerable planet is humbling.
This continues to be one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen
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
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.
This really made me feel how small we are. and how vast the universe is. Thank you!
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 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.
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
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.
I am truly impressed and blown away by the immense effort they have invested in crafting this 7-minute video. Such an underrated channel.
"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
Welcome to another episode of random RUclips algorithms.
But this one is the best of them all.
Watching this …. ❣️❣️ filled me with deep emotion, and tears rolled down my eyes…. To get a glimpse of the scale ..
So beautiful. Thank you 🙏
I’m always amazed when I think of space. It’s awesome that people were able to find those small dots in space with observations and math
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).
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.
Even the sun seems so small in this empty space. Thanks for this great job. So instructive, and so poetic !
Compas, qué trabajo tremendo, impresionante, bellísimo han realizado ustedes. Estoy escribiendo el comentario con mis ojos con lágrimas, uno tiene estas nociones, pero verlo a esa escala uff, de verdad que lo pone a uno a mirar en perspectiva donde vivimos, lo frágiles que somos como planeta, el regalo maravilloso que nuestro planeta es y lo mal cuidado que lo tenemos. Gracias, de verdad gracias por este trabajo. No entiendo porque si es de hace tantos años, hasta ahora lo veo, tantos años viendo basura en youtube existiendo videos como este!!!!
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
Man 1:Why did you come?
Man 2:"I DONT HAVE A JOB"
Legendary!🔥
Michael Cantuba finally someone said it! 😂😂😂😂
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.
2:36 - I have the world in my pocket somewhere...
AMAZING! SURREAL! ART! MASTERPIECE!!
Videos likes these don't make me regret about the internet!
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.
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 :)
Just sat with my 6 year old watching this after he was struggling to understand the scale of the solar system. One little Mind blown, awesome vid guys
You can try it yourself on a smaller scale, if you try "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 walk through.
@@steveaustin2686 love it
Among the hundreds of RUclips videos I've seen, this one is definitely in the top 3!
Well done Wylie and Alex. Thank you.
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 😱
Love this, so some local Eagle Scouts did a project similar to this a few years ago on a paved bike path around here. There’s pedestals with models of the planets similar in size as your models at the same distances away on the path. It really makes you realize how far away the outer planets really are. The fact you drew out complete orbits is amazing.
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.
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.
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?
When you think about this universe, life, us, our existence and watch this video - it will literally give you goosebumps.
Hats off to your dedication. After reading the solar flares, I was curious how far we are in the solar system and still 'a flare' could impact the earth and was wondering about the size and distance in solar system to scale. and I got the answer here.
"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.
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
What's "staggering" and incomprehensible is there's a majestic God made who made all of this; in all it's form and function; in all it's complexity, sophistication and splendor.
and yet, if that is so, why did xtians ERASE his name over 6800 times from the Old testament, and claim that his name is Je sus? Je sus is a modern made-up name. Fake ne ws
This video is so 2015, and I miss that
"I have the world in my pocket"
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 such a humbling video. Beautiful. Watching this, I can barely wrap my mind around the scale of our own solar system. To think that our entire galaxy is a speck in the grand scheme of the universe is beautiful, scary, inspiring… I don’t have the words to describe it.
Thank you for creating this.
I have done distance scale models of the solar system with my elementary students, but we could NEVER do planet size AND distance as you have! Thanks for a terrific video! Always mind-blowing to go beyond our little blue marble!
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.
@@steveaustin2686 Even easier, but only Sun and Earth: Use a small orange (diameter of about 7 cm) for the sun and a salt grain (diameter a bit over half a mm) at a distance of about 7.5 m for the Earth.
@bjornfeuerbacher5514 That's good for small spaces, but leaves out Mercury, Mars, and Pluto as they would be too small to see.
@@steveaustin2686 Well, I wrote right from the start that it's only Sun and Earth. ;)
@@bjornfeuerbacher5514 Then you miss all the other planets
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 😨
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
I love the music in this so much, it really adds to the space/void-y theme of the video
The deepest thing said in this video was entirely unintentional.
"There's a world in my pocket somewhere."
Bet they were glad pluto isnt a planet anymore, saved them a half hour
Pluto makes me so sad..It was a planet,then we demoted it,now they are talking about bringing it back
It's a dwarf planet. So it still has some name to it. I hope that makes you feel any better
abc zyx Yea and also the reason they didnt want to call it a planet was because they've discovered moons bigger than it (whoever "they" are)
Well both Titan and Ganymede is bigger than Mercury, so that;'s not why Pluto was reclassified. Being in the Kuiper belt is what reclassified it.
But the 2 moons were orbiting Jupiter i believe. Or saturn I forgot. Anyways, Pluto is orbiting a star while the moons are orbiting a planet. And did you mean that being in the Kuiper belt is what reclassified it., you meant the moons Titan and Ganymede
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.
Wow! Simply wow to the thought process and the way you guys have presented it in front of us. I feel sorry that it took me 7 years to come across this video. Right from that first statement to the last scene everything fits so well. I hope to wander in space one day!
Amazing and enlightening work showing us-fractions of atoms-a picture of our place in a never-ending universe.
In comparison to the planets, moons, stars etc; human life actually disappears. Superb, thanks❤
The marbled Earth rolling across the cracked dry desert floor was epic.
It went from a cool experiment to an introspective soul-touching experience. Well done.
Carl Sagan would certainly approved this video! 😁👌👌👌
The most beautiful RUclips video ever made
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
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 ...
This is why there's a Fermi Paradox. The distances and empty space is just mind boggling. Add to that billions of years of time, and the chances of two advanced civilizations being in the same local space and time are slim to none.
I think it is so awesome that people like you guys are willing to do experiments & demonstrations like these just for learning sake! Thank you for sharing ;o)
powerful POWERFUL comment: "everything I've ever known, was behind my thumb"
shane gilson sure but can you explain 6:25?
That's an easy one. Google angular diameter. It's a simple equation and you can prove it to yourself with objects on the earth. Since your thumb doesn't change width and your outstretched arm puts it at a fixed distance from your eye you can estimate the size of an object at a known distance or the distance of an object of a known size. Since diameter/2*distance in the equation is a ratio, you can't solve for both.
Haha i cant explain it, I just thought it was a powerful comment. good job though @st1300 r
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shane gilson i thought it meant like your phone. like you've never paid attention to things like this.
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 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.
I’ve watched this for a few years and every time it never ceases to amaze me
"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
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
By far the most impressive model of the Solar System + the timelapse of lights is an amazing touch.
Playing Elite: Dangerous, which models our galaxy on a 1:1 scale, gave me an appreciation for the almost inconceivable distances between planets, including the ones in our solar system. Even at the game's fictional high speeds that the ships can achieve, you spend a lot of time waiting to get from one planet to another, and yeah, until you arrive at any given planet, they're like grains of sand compared to the space around them.
I guess this is why I got here.
_"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
“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
Я видел уже этот ролик и даже его искал.
Рад что он мне опять попался. Самое лучшее представление о невообразимых расстояниях.
Спасибо большое!
Appreciate the amount of work put into this. I will say, I wish you had a drone picture at night high up in the sky looking down at the illuminated solar system you created to get an overview of its scale.
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
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”
We've had a travelling exhibition in the UK that did this, it was mind blowing to walk miles to see the solar system. Absolutely fascinating.
I think what amazes me the most that still the gravitational sphere of the sun is still much farther than neptune and stretches onto the oort cloud which is considered the edge of the solar system.
and when put into scale the sun is so small
It is just amazing to think that such a small object can have that big of a gravitational sphere.
That's 7:07 mins well spent on RUclips. 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
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Well said
the approximate time that sunlight travel to earth.
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.*
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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 absolutely incredible. Thank you for making this and sharing it with us.
When I started to think about that where are a marble in the middle of no where got me really good it made me think a lot