To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM

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8 жыл бұрын

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.
We're making a series! Check the project out at www.ToScaleSeries.com
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A film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh
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@franktonio 8 жыл бұрын

Guys, this video seriously touched me. Automatically on my KZfaq´s Top 3 ever. Thank you, thank you, thank you. (from this perspective, my problems look ridiculously pathetic)

@ToScale 8 жыл бұрын

+Toño G. A. Thank you! This means a lot to us.

@KumaPuma1 8 жыл бұрын

+Toño G. A. exactly how i felt

@BarbarosaAlexander 8 жыл бұрын

+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.

@AppleEed 8 жыл бұрын

+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.

@veritasabsoluta4285 8 жыл бұрын

+AppleEed Wtf are you talking about?

@jpmz 5 жыл бұрын

"This is it, its the end of the solar system" Pluto: *cries*

@Tire.Dude.42 4 жыл бұрын

Jpmz I died laughing at this

@hyljix 4 жыл бұрын

sad

@baguettegott3409 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@TheKurtkapan34 4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Techn1kal 4 жыл бұрын

haha except Pluto doesn't exist

@philipocarroll 6 жыл бұрын

On that scale, if you wanted to put a beach ball to represent the nearest star you would still have to leave the earth.

@94nolo 5 жыл бұрын

@jslaternyc incredible

@reneernesto5748 5 жыл бұрын

true

@jojololo9157 5 жыл бұрын

No prob

@isummer9140 5 жыл бұрын

But isn’t earth round so you could just make a couple laps around earth 🤷🏻‍♂️

@OriginalL. 5 жыл бұрын

@@isummer9140 not just a couple

@mnl3gms 7 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq. 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 ❤

@Nogitsune1 4 ай бұрын

W mom

@williamborregard6384 4 ай бұрын

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

@cswanson4476 Ай бұрын

Hope he gets to be one of the few people who get to cover the world with their thumb.

@netheex 19 күн бұрын

You are a wonderful parent. Instead of discouraging him from his dreams, you encouraged him!

@preetaexoxo376 10 ай бұрын

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.

@EpicGuider0 6 жыл бұрын

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!

@Twas-RightHere 6 жыл бұрын

It was top on the trending list for quite a while when it came out two years ago...

@gregmcneely9946 6 жыл бұрын

A Rocket yes but EpicGuider saw it recently and his timeline is ALL that matters. Obviously you learned nothing from the video

@tannerboy1991 6 жыл бұрын

EpicGuider0 completely agree, a video which takes planning and intelligence as well as great editing. youtube trending is very poorly done

@uncomfortableshirt3870 6 жыл бұрын

That's because this video was stolen and re uploaded by this channel.

@michaelcurtis9998 6 жыл бұрын

EpicGuider0 3

@jtorres5381 4 жыл бұрын

"Why are you here?" "I don't have a job." - greatest answer ever!🤣😂🤣

@freshencounter 4 жыл бұрын

Juan Torres and my trust fund keeps me off the streets

@maartenhappel9014 8 ай бұрын

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!

@Saraseeksthompson0211 Жыл бұрын

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.

@lucyw7168 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@captaincook6666 2 жыл бұрын

I've done an educational video walking scale model if ur interested.

@emgeesea3983 2 жыл бұрын

I think the light bulb goes on, not off, when realization sets in. ;)

@The_Bad_Guy. 2 жыл бұрын

@@emgeesea3983 well Im sure for some the lightbulb goes off haha

@adamwilbanks2681 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@The_Bad_Guy. 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@jakeharlinski2934 6 жыл бұрын

Man, Ford has really stepped up their commercials.

@rootsofafrika 5 жыл бұрын

Jake Harlinski 😂😂

@darylesese 5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same exact thing!

@wiggalama 5 жыл бұрын

Neil deGrasse Tyson agrees :)

@jennalogan5552 5 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@isummer9140 5 жыл бұрын

Jake Harlinski ducking A1 comment

@donactdum6635 8 ай бұрын

“Everything that you’ve ever known, all behind your thumb” That concept blew my mind

@mossyproductions7451 8 ай бұрын

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.

@0Enidan0 4 ай бұрын

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.

@cheliwilliams1258 29 күн бұрын

Thank you

@AndresGonzalez-fv6ov 6 жыл бұрын

"I don't have a job" *Laughs* *Slowly Falls Into Deppression*

@LeofromFreo 6 жыл бұрын

Andres Gonzalez something to do with Johnny Depp, I suppose.

@joshuajacobs335 6 жыл бұрын

"Hello, darkness my old friend. I've come to talk with you again..."

@KizWhalifa. 6 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@leolin1911 6 жыл бұрын

911 likes. Gl m8

@ETSnipers 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@WhiteminigunGaming 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@kahlzun 4 жыл бұрын

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."

@mintberrycrunch4446 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@matthew211237 4 жыл бұрын

Craig Corson Appreciate that correction!

@craigcorson3036 4 жыл бұрын

@@RaveMasterSRB Oh please. We ARE microbes compared to the universe. If you don't know that, you have no perspective.

@ronaldgibson4052 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@SaadAlisArt 11 ай бұрын

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 ❤

@mgpvii 5 ай бұрын

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.

@Adks007 9 ай бұрын

I am truly impressed and blown away by the immense effort they have invested in crafting this 7-minute video. Such an underrated channel.

@NxDoyle 6 жыл бұрын

This is the rarest kind of KZfaq video. The kind where you come away thinking that you've just been given a gift.

@beeman2075 5 жыл бұрын

Agree. I felt the same way after watching this.

@SwallowsCourt 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@malkisehgal2481 4 жыл бұрын

Definitely

@dippledopple 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@malkisehgal2481 4 жыл бұрын

@@dippledopple Rightly Put

@kaidaudsyah1715 4 жыл бұрын

I almost cried watching this knowing that we are nothing compared to what else is out there,

@mirawenya 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@samyoungai 11 ай бұрын

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.

@usaniinaizesheni 7 ай бұрын

It is absolutely mind-boggling. The sheer scale of the emptiness around our vulnerable planet is humbling.

@Deeplycloseted435 6 жыл бұрын

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

@ComissarYarrick 5 жыл бұрын

Why i can like this only once ....

@martinpickard6043 5 жыл бұрын

Carl Sagan. Humanist. RIP

@jeremycabillo2031 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@bragee 5 жыл бұрын

Look at this, I find it extraordinary: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNmkfLSgzbuopGg.html

@gooddog6745 5 жыл бұрын

it's beautiful... and sad

@chefboyarbae215 10 ай бұрын

This continues to be one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen

@davewatchedthat Ай бұрын

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.

@ToScale Ай бұрын

Thanks Dave, that means a lot.

@nolanbeal8433 5 жыл бұрын

"I have the world in my pocket somewhere"

@EndoftheRd 5 жыл бұрын

This is the best comment.!! 👍

@saniasinghania1183 4 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment. :’)

@porc1429 4 жыл бұрын

God when creating the world

@pboomgaming1987 4 жыл бұрын

Nolan Beal it sounds so accidentally inspirational

@spiritualopportunism4585 4 жыл бұрын

@@porc1429 fuck you

@RodneySanches 6 жыл бұрын

This would be a great permanent installation, with little train tracks for the planets. It would feature in all of the documentaries!

@TheAlps36 6 жыл бұрын

Now that's a Kickstarter I'd get behind

@chimpsidious3545 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@user-iq1lh3mo2z 11 ай бұрын

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!

@MasterHobytla 9 ай бұрын

Would love this! Might be hard to film tho - I just did the calc and proxima centauri would be almost 7000 miles away 🤯

@anubhavkabra17 7 ай бұрын

Among the hundreds of KZfaq videos I've seen, this one is definitely in the top 3! Well done Wylie and Alex. Thank you.

@MAnuscript421 2 жыл бұрын

"Everything you've ever known... All behind your thumb." -Jim Lovell Really puts things in perspective.

@kallekontio2322 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mr.evasion 2 жыл бұрын

And what about the Sun and Stars? And the Galaxys and Galaxys and Galaxys ad infinitum? They don't count then?

@SuperSMT 2 жыл бұрын

And they've not even left Earth's backyard way out at the moon!

@jasonclark6194 2 жыл бұрын

@@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....

@Freebyrd1991 2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonclark6194 full of shit freemasons

@cya2163 Жыл бұрын

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!

@alexd9735 Жыл бұрын

if this is filmed somewhere in USA, the closest star Proxima Centauri , on this scale would be somewhere in Central Europe.

@hassassinator8858 Жыл бұрын

@@alexd9735 Are you sure? I'm getting 43,000 km (almost 4 times the diameter of the Earth).

@alexd9735 Жыл бұрын

@@hassassinator8858 I am not sure. Please do not use my calculation if you plan to embark on trip to Proxima. :)

@hassassinator8858 Жыл бұрын

@@alexd9735...That's the nicest reaction I've ever gotten from someone I argued against. Hats off to you, Alex!

@alexd9735 Жыл бұрын

@@hassassinator8858 well when you lose the argument, it means you learned something new, so least I could is being nice :)

@shedskin01 11 ай бұрын

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! 🙏

@steveaustin2686 3 ай бұрын

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.

@FarmerBenny 8 ай бұрын

This is absolutely incredible. Thank you for making this and sharing it with us.

@akoul5349 4 жыл бұрын

Welcome to another episode of random KZfaq algorithms. But this one is the best of them all.

@aaroncoelho-irani4460 4 жыл бұрын

Guy; "and we've reached the edge of the solar system" Pluto: Am I a joke to you?

@elopeous3285 4 жыл бұрын

He may be. But he's My lovely beautiful joke

@DieFlabbergast 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, you are: now pull yourself together and find a purpose to your life!

@SykeMed 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@androsGali 4 жыл бұрын

But it’s still part of our solar system.

@Oskar_464 4 жыл бұрын

@@androsGali so is sedna, eris and ceres and noone gives a damn about them

@willowwoolgather6478 9 ай бұрын

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.

@IndranilDas2501 9 ай бұрын

When you think about this universe, life, us, our existence and watch this video - it will literally give you goosebumps.

@lewking4357 8 жыл бұрын

I'll never get over the immensity of the Universe.

@Aristocratic13 6 жыл бұрын

Me neither

@johnnyfavorite1194 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@disappearintothesea 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@DiecastTz 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@Borritoification 3 жыл бұрын

Ok dude.

@killerkooodaaa 3 жыл бұрын

every once in awhile I come back here to see how many people have been fed this b******* and believe it

@Borritoification 3 жыл бұрын

@@killerkooodaaa Based!

@4N9vxO3WnK 3 жыл бұрын

returned

@josephbelisle5792 8 ай бұрын

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.

@James-vb7jn 8 ай бұрын

I’ve watched this for a few years and every time it never ceases to amaze me

@Jassbusters 8 жыл бұрын

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.

@koanmedia4081 8 жыл бұрын

+TalentlessHumour joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

@MrAudienceMember2662015 8 жыл бұрын

+Koan Media OMG! I've been to see the black and I've lost my mind.

@kuribayashi84 8 жыл бұрын

+TalentlessHumour My Index finger hurts and my scroll wheel is broken.

@MrAudienceMember2662015 8 жыл бұрын

Schwatvogel arrow keys.

@RolandoGarza 8 жыл бұрын

+Schwatvogel hit the 'light speed' button (horizontal lines with the letter 'c' and you'll be travelling at the speed of light).

@Feralsaurus 6 жыл бұрын

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).

@alexsiemers7898 6 жыл бұрын

And the observable universe at this scale would be ~1.52x10^14 km, or about 16 light years in size!

@mikeesaucee-5298 6 жыл бұрын

Post malone

@bingo4519 6 жыл бұрын

Wow.

@flatearthgenius5732 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@jjob6279 6 жыл бұрын

@flat earth genius this is my favorite youtube comment ever

@94ishaq 9 ай бұрын

I've come back to watch it again and still get goosebumps.

@soulomanroadtripgo9035 9 ай бұрын

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!

@kajeralocse 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@leogetz248 2 жыл бұрын

Viewed from above, how does the solar system rotate? See at 3:24.

@maritaurin3044 7 жыл бұрын

I still watch this like every week

@noahpalm7164 7 жыл бұрын

same

@lowquality4082 7 жыл бұрын

Marit Aurin OMG same

@Harker777 7 жыл бұрын

What does it say we didn't already know? There are many more fascinating things to ponder over within our universe/s

@KEYLIME. 7 жыл бұрын

Marit Aurin ARMY (do you still watch it every week or is it the Not Today music video now lol)

@maritaurin3044 7 жыл бұрын

+The Little Hotaru Josie i've got to say Not Today took its place XD

@Scribblesvdotio 8 ай бұрын

I love the music in this so much, it really adds to the space/void-y theme of the video

@jonathanbeattie3410 7 ай бұрын

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

@steveaustin2686 3 ай бұрын

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.

@jonathanbeattie3410 3 ай бұрын

@@steveaustin2686 love it

@AzureDefiance3701 4 жыл бұрын

Its incredible how far the suns gravitation pull goes.

@manusharma3601 4 жыл бұрын

You were sleeping during high school physics, right?😂😂

@JerryInGeorgia 4 жыл бұрын

It's a legitimate observation. But, they say that gravity is a weak force when compared to others. That always struck me as odd.

@manusharma3601 4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@gothamjetskier776 4 жыл бұрын

They say as far out as the oort cloud. Hard to comprehend.

@manusharma3601 4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@recycleyourcats 7 жыл бұрын

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.

@Tremaine26 6 жыл бұрын

Justin Wodicka WOW 😱

@shyshy2270 Ай бұрын

This really made me feel how small we are. and how vast the universe is. Thank you!

@macronencer 9 ай бұрын

Somehow missed this when it came out. Congratulations - a thoroughly excellent science communication video. Thank you!

@maestroh2986 Жыл бұрын

It went from a cool experiment to an introspective soul-touching experience. Well done.

@riftmusic5232 6 жыл бұрын

Next: To Scale: THE ENTIRE VISIBLE UNIVERSE Like so they see

@riftmusic5232 6 жыл бұрын

i was actually joking idk if ppl realized that

@camellord0324 6 жыл бұрын

Rift Music that'd be impossible

@GamerRusith 6 жыл бұрын

The nearest extra-solar star is around 47000km away using the same scale as in the video.

@Saturnares 6 жыл бұрын

make galaxies the size of a marble

@Saturnares 6 жыл бұрын

but of course, all of the land would be covered in marbles

@michaellerner528 8 ай бұрын

I am grateful for your efforts. You have created a clear and creative visualization of Time, the Universe, and the Solar System. It is a great gift. I share it with everyone in the hopes that they too, will be as awed as I am by the implications of such beauty as surrounds us. Thank you!

@morenofranco9235 11 ай бұрын

Absolutely brillant. Thanks, guys, for all your work.

@michaelcantuba5971 6 жыл бұрын

Man 1:Why did you come? Man 2:"I DONT HAVE A JOB" Legendary!🔥

@theonethatnevergoesaway9440 5 жыл бұрын

Michael Cantuba finally someone said it! 😂😂😂😂

@AdrianSommeling_photography 5 жыл бұрын

What impresses me most is the gravity of the sun. It's still catching Neptune on such an incredible distance.

@jakubw.2779 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@bsgfan1 5 жыл бұрын

It really makes you understand the *gravity* of the situation.

@TehhLeviathan 5 жыл бұрын

Adrian Sommeling that’s not exactly true

@hillerm 5 жыл бұрын

From what I understand, its more a re-directing of its trajectory than it is a catching.

@paulg9019 5 жыл бұрын

thats just what i was thinking

@jaikumarjadhav6575 9 ай бұрын

By far the most impressive model of the Solar System + the timelapse of lights is an amazing touch.

@Charlie_Duz 8 ай бұрын

This made me really emotional. Wasn't expecting that. I didn't want the video to end. Thanks guys. 🌍

@SupahBro535 6 жыл бұрын

"I have the world in my pocket"

@SuperSaf 8 жыл бұрын

Now how big do your problems seem?

@catfunt5744 8 жыл бұрын

+SuperSaf TV I love your videos.

@Miniclash 8 жыл бұрын

+SuperSaf TV Considering I don't have time or money to do such a cool project, bigger than these guys's problems.

@catfunt5744 8 жыл бұрын

Miniclash Nice.

@MySerpentine 8 жыл бұрын

+Miniclash Well put, well put!

@kurayamidesu 8 жыл бұрын

But, alternatively, how big are your accomplishments now? We are very very small.

@cathleenwitt2790 Жыл бұрын

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!

@steveaustin2686 3 ай бұрын

@bjornfeuerbacher5514 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@steveaustin2686 Ай бұрын

@bjornfeuerbacher5514 That's good for small spaces, but leaves out Mercury, Mars, and Pluto as they would be too small to see.

@bjornfeuerbacher5514 Ай бұрын

@@steveaustin2686 Well, I wrote right from the start that it's only Sun and Earth. ;)

@steveaustin2686 Ай бұрын

@@bjornfeuerbacher5514 Then you miss all the other planets

@spud13x13 21 күн бұрын

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!

@gordondavis6168 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@BikeArea 2 жыл бұрын

It's even more amazing as gravity is the weakest of the basic forces.

@gordondavis6168 2 жыл бұрын

@@BikeArea it is the weakest force, but it operates across great distances - across the width of galaxies

@MatthewFearnley 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Shekhar_Jyoti Жыл бұрын

Yet it's the weakest of the 4 fundamental forces.

@frankboehm591 Жыл бұрын

I think gravity is less a force, more a distortion of space.

@_ata_3 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Invictusestas 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@yvubgv 2 жыл бұрын

Astronomy always overwhelms me when I try to make sense of it. Your comment is spot on.

@stig1872 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@ozo_man9508 2 жыл бұрын

@@stig1872 this comment 👌

@maxpayne69. 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 😨

@for_your_entertainment 9 ай бұрын

Wow, this is incredible. Thank you.

@markbresciano9865 8 ай бұрын

You nailed it guys! Amazing video. Thank you very much for that and keep up the good work.

@shanegilson7107 6 жыл бұрын

powerful POWERFUL comment: "everything I've ever known, was behind my thumb"

@MrGamecatCanaveral 6 жыл бұрын

shane gilson sure but can you explain 6:25?

@1boobtube 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@shanegilson7107 6 жыл бұрын

Haha i cant explain it, I just thought it was a powerful comment. good job though @st1300 r

@shanegilson7107 6 жыл бұрын

@Scream-vq8ht 6 жыл бұрын

shane gilson i thought it meant like your phone. like you've never paid attention to things like this.

@dungww2006 4 жыл бұрын

10 years later: OH MY GOD GUYS ALIENS DREW THESE CIRCLES BUT WHAT DO THEY MEAN?

@bazil7573 4 жыл бұрын

「Lih / Liam.」 THEY MATCH UP EXACTLY WITH THE PLANETS’ ORBITS GUYS THERE ARE ALIENS ON MARS

@ders972 4 жыл бұрын

In 10 years those circles will be gone

@dungww2006 4 жыл бұрын

Ders972 NEEERRRDDD

@ders972 4 жыл бұрын

@@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

@wojciechdraminski3035 4 жыл бұрын

@@ders972 Have you ever heard about something called joke?

@Steve983 4 ай бұрын

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.

@jeffjones2021 6 ай бұрын

This is so well done. My god. Great job guys!

@IJustMadeAComment 6 жыл бұрын

Bet they were glad pluto isnt a planet anymore, saved them a half hour

@allenqueen 6 жыл бұрын

Pluto makes me so sad..It was a planet,then we demoted it,now they are talking about bringing it back

@quantumaraa169 6 жыл бұрын

It's a dwarf planet. So it still has some name to it. I hope that makes you feel any better

@finnthedog8186 6 жыл бұрын

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)

@jacobswing3661 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@quantumaraa169 6 жыл бұрын

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

@pinochet3317 3 жыл бұрын

"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

@astro3487 3 жыл бұрын

Sir you're absolutely true!

@chrismoderate3495 3 жыл бұрын

Yup. But Pinochet I must say, your record on human rights is nothing pro humanity.

@Critzenkills 2 жыл бұрын

Couldnt help reading that out loud in my mind in his voice.

@bwaldron8449 2 жыл бұрын

Loved Carl Sagan and his perspectives... Need more like him

@SilverSpoon_ 2 жыл бұрын

@@chrismoderate3495 they were communists, Chris.

@MartinVozka Ай бұрын

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...

@mkien2005 9 ай бұрын

It doesn't matter how many times I watch this video, each time it gives me the awes!

@felreizmeshinca7459 4 жыл бұрын

Knowing the universe has always created a sense of longing for me.

@waterhorse928 4 жыл бұрын

I've spent a lot of time staring at the stars... (In Super Mario Galaxy)

@leemaples1806 4 жыл бұрын

the longing for adventure and discovery is part of the human condition.we just have more questions than answers i guess.

@miyuki6467 4 жыл бұрын

this is beautifully put

@thaliapanacea964 4 жыл бұрын

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

@johnward5983 4 жыл бұрын

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. :-)

@pursuitsoflife.6119 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info! Will check it out :)

@sourabhjadhav7929 4 жыл бұрын

God bless Australians

@kateli1880 4 жыл бұрын

Is it free public to walk?

@shitavl 4 жыл бұрын

There’s one in outback S.A on the side of the highway that goes for 100’s if KM too

@THEROADSMITH 4 жыл бұрын

Kate Li yep it’s along the beach in port Melbourne

@5kdamian 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful video. Thank you for the perspective and for taking the time to create such a comprehensive and elegant view.

@vnelson000 8 ай бұрын

Outstanding work. Very helpful for visualization. Honestly, I had no idea till this momment, what the true scale could be like. I have a much better idea since this work and I thank you guys.

@beaconterraoneonline 3 жыл бұрын

The marbled Earth rolling across the cracked dry desert floor was epic.

@internet2055 5 жыл бұрын

Yo nice video 8/10 ...BUT... friends we were all waiting to see a shot from the sky to see how your scale looked

@Not_what_it_used_to_be 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@bluecapone 5 жыл бұрын

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!

@caught.in.minds_ 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@manualLaborer 5 жыл бұрын

They spent their helicopter budget on condoms. Ok that was mean and unnecessary.

@Artemis_simetrA 5 жыл бұрын

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!

@learningenglishwithmspony 8 ай бұрын

AMAZING! thank you for sharing.

@gee6607 Ай бұрын

If no one else has said it, thank you for taking the time and effort. This is outstanding!!!!

@Brimannn1 5 жыл бұрын

A flatearther’s greatest fear is sphere itself. This video if fantastic!

@testy462 5 жыл бұрын

ROFL!

@Brimannn1 5 жыл бұрын

Swaggy Swag 😂😂👍🏼

@senseiadam-brawlstars9465 5 жыл бұрын

Johan sigurdson Troll

@redeemed3186 5 жыл бұрын

This video is stupid. Its Flat!!!

@marcocappelli2236 5 жыл бұрын

Jesse Trevino Oh, really? Have any evidence for that?

@Bob-dt8tc 4 жыл бұрын

That's 7:07 mins well spent on KZfaq. Rare. Thanks for this video. Set the perspective right. Cheers.

@charliebrown6072 4 жыл бұрын

Subhajeet Sahu ikr

@randomdude9135 4 жыл бұрын

Wait till you see one of those Red bull or go pro videos

@makeyoumineforever 4 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jNCSndGmq6fUe5s.html

@crack8160 4 жыл бұрын

Well said

@9140ian 4 жыл бұрын

the approximate time that sunlight travel to earth.

@echoing202 9 ай бұрын

7 years and this is still a masterpiece.

@echoing202 9 ай бұрын

0:43 if you put the orbits to scale on a piece of paper 1:45 marble Earth 2:06 let's start with the sun 3:10 onward to the outer planets 4:05 neptune is really far away 4:14 wow 4:57 cue the dramatic sunrise music 5:30 24 people

@echoing202 9 ай бұрын

1:57 Why did you guys come? I don't have a job.

@echoing202 9 ай бұрын

"On that scale, if you wanted to put a beach ball to represent the nearest star you would still have to leave the Earth" "But isn't Earth round, so you could just make a couple laps around Earth" "not just a couple"

@williamray8000 9 ай бұрын

That was awesome! Thanks for doing this.

@z-manbricks5910 6 жыл бұрын

RIP: Pluto

@filfil4699 6 жыл бұрын

Pluto is one among many:)

@thattwodimensionalant4626 6 жыл бұрын

Z-Man Bricks Pluto is beyond far from Neptune, they would need another kilometer or two to add it.

@varunkhanna6088 6 жыл бұрын

Wtf! So new horizons mission by NASA is a hoax??? 🤔

@JanetStarChild 6 жыл бұрын

Z-Man Bricks; Pluto isn't dead, you dumb-ass. It's still out there. Nothing has changed except for the category that Pluto now falls into (dwarf planet, or planetoid).

@lucas182512 6 жыл бұрын

Dwarf lives matter

@tylerdurden8555 6 жыл бұрын

can you make a 1:1 model for perspective? thanks

@alexsiemers7898 6 жыл бұрын

It's been here for 4.5 billion years!

@tpaairman 6 жыл бұрын

You're already on one.

@ambrose3560 6 жыл бұрын

tpaairman wow that was fast

@raulcastanon182 6 жыл бұрын

His name was Robert Paulson

@skynetwork-wc6ss 10 ай бұрын

The best youtube film I've seen till date .. thanks a lot for inspiring us guys !! Loads of love and respect from down under ❤

@realchaaan 11 ай бұрын

This is amazing. Please, please make more content. We want more of these.

@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@martinzika7370 4 жыл бұрын

for light, it takes literally no time lol

@hi-ys7df 4 жыл бұрын

The nearest star takes 4 and a half YEARS for light to get to.

@olestokke 4 жыл бұрын

Just Some Guy without a Mustache And it would take 100 000 years to get across our solar system

@lilfr4nkie 4 жыл бұрын

Martin Zika correct

@hi-ys7df 4 жыл бұрын

@@olestokke no it's 1.6 years for our solar system. It's 100,000 years for our galaxy.

@eze7579 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@spaceshipearth999 4 жыл бұрын

That's nuts

@immersegrafx 4 жыл бұрын

it’s not a planet

@spoopyboi1005 4 жыл бұрын

@@immersegrafx its a dwarf PLANET

@TheRomanBond007 4 жыл бұрын

*revolution around the Sun. Rotation is turning based on its axis.

@stablernose7203 4 жыл бұрын

Lordmemeacus ... which isn’t a PLANET ... dumbass ...

@marisela7825 9 ай бұрын

This is one of the most fascinating videos i have ever seen. I wish we could have seen it at night with all planets lit by light. This was awesome though. Thank you so much for this!

@gabriellaarango9100 Ай бұрын

Watching this …. ❣️❣️ filled me with deep emotion, and tears rolled down my eyes…. To get a glimpse of the scale .. So beautiful. Thank you 🙏

@evoeightyci 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@mikeagate 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jeffnaslund 2 жыл бұрын

Ditto. What a time to be 9 years old

@gordongoodman8342 2 жыл бұрын

The only thing I remember about Walter Cronkite is him saying he is proud to be standing at the right hand of Satan.

@simonparker57 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@williameaton6330 2 жыл бұрын

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.