It's a Small World After All

[billroper]

Fortunately, this is not a link to the song. Instead, it presents a series of models that will give you an idea of how small the Earth is compared to other astronomical bodies.

Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

That's cool.

Up in Traverse City, MI, there is a great trail along an old train bed and spread out over its many miles are a scale model of the solar system, giving a decent impression of the distances between the planets in scale

[scarfman]

I like the way the page is subtitled with the date, as if things'll change next week and we ought to check back and see how the Earth measures up then.

[sibylle]

There's a similar thing in Denmark ... man, it takes a Long Time to walk to Saturn :-)