Maine Completes Largest To-Scale Solar System Model

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."

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[willtsmith]

The names of weekdays are named after planets.

Check it out at: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanet s/days.html

http://cjvlang.com/Dow/main/dow1.html

Our English planet references are weird because our references are derived from Swedish.

Vikings settle -> Normandy
Normans Conquer -> England

And btw, the last day, the day god rested is (Saturn)day, Saturday, Sabado, SABBATH!!! This is the ONLY one of the English weekdays derived from LATIN rather than Swedish due to christian influences. Hence, most christians go to church on the wrong day: the day of the Sun instead of the day of Saturn 8-(

Re:Ithica's is bigger

[Moofie]

I don't miss his ill-founded sermonizing about nuclear winter.

There are enough reasons not to blow each other up that we don't need to go spouting off about totally ludicrous ones.

I am very sorry Dr. Sagan tarnished his reputation with his association with this kind of really bad science.