if you look up an image of the earth and
moon you’re going to get a picture where
they’re quite close together something
like that but in reality the Earth and
Moon are about about that far apart that
is the earth and the moon to scale
taking the same concept go to the solar
system every single picture of the solar
system and we never encounter is not to
scale if you put the orbits to scale on
a piece of paper the planets become
microscopic and you won’t be able to see
them it’s literally not an image that
adequately shows you what it actually
looks like from out there the only way
to see a scale model of the solar system
is to build one
[Music]
and
welcome to Black Rock Desert
this is Alex O’Reilly he’s going to be
behind the camera I’m going to be
probably making a lot of mistakes on
camera we have 36 hours to measure the
distances trace out the orbits and set
up a time lapse shot from up on top of a
nearby mountain to create a scale model
with an earth only as big as this marble
you need 7 miles of empty space so
that’s why we’re here why did you guys
come I don’t have a job at this scale
the Sun is a meter and so about about
that big around so we are driving right
now to mercury you’ve arrived
[Music]
Venus is the same size as Earth
[Music]
world in my pocket somewhere and
[Music]
yes Mars we’ve got a couple of robots
rolling around on that one
once the time lapse is ready we’ll drive
each orbit with light hopefully you’ll
be able to tell just how big they really
are
onward to the outer planet
Jupiter
[Music]
Oh
[Music]
Saturn that tiny light out there is our
Sun just over a mile away
[Music]
sounds way way out there now
Oh
[Music]
little bit that’s awesome
[Music]
[Music]
so right now it’s about 7:00 a.m. we
just woke up right before the sun’s
about to rise we are on Earth orbit
while he’s over there holding our Sun
cue the dramatic sunrise music so if
we’ve made our model correctly your
perspective from where earth is on the
model will match your perspective from
standing on real earth so if you look
back at the Sun you will see that the
model Sun and real Suns are the exact
same size and that’s how you can tell
that the proportions are correct there
are 24 people in the entire history of
the human being
billions of people who have actually
seen the full circle of the earth with
their line following the breakfast the
astronauts which of the soup room where
they done is facing little fans attempt
to get to the more
we have liftoff liftoff at 7:51 in Earth
orbit of the rises just slightly curved
when you head on out to the moon that
horizon fully curves around and upon
itself and all of a sudden you’re
looking at something that is very
strange but it is very very familiar
oh that’s picture over there by out that
piece you can put your thumb up and you
can hide the earth behind your thumb
everything that you’ve ever known all
behind yourself nothing bigger than that
way up there
it’s really beautiful being dry
that’s what I really wanted to try and
capture we are on a marble floating in
the middle of nothing when you complete
that is staggering
[Music]
Oh
[Music]
Oh
moon you’re going to get a picture where
they’re quite close together something
like that but in reality the Earth and
Moon are about about that far apart that
is the earth and the moon to scale
taking the same concept go to the solar
system every single picture of the solar
system and we never encounter is not to
scale if you put the orbits to scale on
a piece of paper the planets become
microscopic and you won’t be able to see
them it’s literally not an image that
adequately shows you what it actually
looks like from out there the only way
to see a scale model of the solar system
is to build one
[Music]
and
welcome to Black Rock Desert
this is Alex O’Reilly he’s going to be
behind the camera I’m going to be
probably making a lot of mistakes on
camera we have 36 hours to measure the
distances trace out the orbits and set
up a time lapse shot from up on top of a
nearby mountain to create a scale model
with an earth only as big as this marble
you need 7 miles of empty space so
that’s why we’re here why did you guys
come I don’t have a job at this scale
the Sun is a meter and so about about
that big around so we are driving right
now to mercury you’ve arrived
[Music]
Venus is the same size as Earth
[Music]
world in my pocket somewhere and
[Music]
yes Mars we’ve got a couple of robots
rolling around on that one
once the time lapse is ready we’ll drive
each orbit with light hopefully you’ll
be able to tell just how big they really
are
onward to the outer planet
Jupiter
[Music]
Oh
[Music]
Saturn that tiny light out there is our
Sun just over a mile away
[Music]
sounds way way out there now
Oh
[Music]
little bit that’s awesome
[Music]
[Music]
so right now it’s about 7:00 a.m. we
just woke up right before the sun’s
about to rise we are on Earth orbit
while he’s over there holding our Sun
cue the dramatic sunrise music so if
we’ve made our model correctly your
perspective from where earth is on the
model will match your perspective from
standing on real earth so if you look
back at the Sun you will see that the
model Sun and real Suns are the exact
same size and that’s how you can tell
that the proportions are correct there
are 24 people in the entire history of
the human being
billions of people who have actually
seen the full circle of the earth with
their line following the breakfast the
astronauts which of the soup room where
they done is facing little fans attempt
to get to the more
we have liftoff liftoff at 7:51 in Earth
orbit of the rises just slightly curved
when you head on out to the moon that
horizon fully curves around and upon
itself and all of a sudden you’re
looking at something that is very
strange but it is very very familiar
oh that’s picture over there by out that
piece you can put your thumb up and you
can hide the earth behind your thumb
everything that you’ve ever known all
behind yourself nothing bigger than that
way up there
it’s really beautiful being dry
that’s what I really wanted to try and
capture we are on a marble floating in
the middle of nothing when you complete
that is staggering
[Music]
Oh
[Music]
Oh
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