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Re:Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019) by irrational on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:40PM (#26563334)
City blocks? Sweden has a scale model of the solar system that stretches across the entire country - north to south. And even then it isn’t actually big/long enough for the entire solar system.
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Re:Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019) by chrisco255 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:58PM (#26563457)
The best view of the solar system I've experienced that could be incorporated into classroom learning is a VR tour. It not only shows you the relative distance really well, it also shows you the size of the planets relative to each other and you really get an intuitive sense of the massiveness of the sun (and other stars), for example.
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Re:Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019) by minitoar on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:54PM (#26563425)
Depends how small you’re willing to make the bodies. In Sweden the Sun is a huge spherical building.
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Re:Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019) by marshmallow_12 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @07:54AM (#26565985)
and if it was smaller the planets would be invisible.
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Re:Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019) by minitoar on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:01AM (#26568077)
It could be made smaller without risking invisibility of any of the planets. The smallest planet is Mercury at 25cm.
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Re:Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019) by dredmorbius on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:02AM (#26563476)
I read Doreen's comment as at least city blocks.

Sweden was, last I checked, larger than a city block.

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