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Maine Completes Largest To-Scale Solar System Model

Posted by timothy on from the can't-get-theayah-from-heayah dept.

Neophytus writes "The University of Maine has now almost completed its solar system model, to be unveiled officially on the June 14th at Westfield. The final planet, Uranus, will be set in place on the 13th. At forty miles from Pluto to The Sun and built to a scale of 1:93,000,000, it will be the largest three-dimensional scale model of the Solar System in North America."

2 of 211 comments (clear)

  1. Why? by jeffkjo1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why? Sure, I could make a 40 mile scale model of the solar system, but I have to ask, why?

  2. RICH BOYS WITH STUPID IDEAS by nirbasito · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...and to think some of them got a grant or scholarship to study ...whose money is being spent for this absolutely ridiculous project anyway????