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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."

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  1. Uh, I think God has them beat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're in the largest to scale model of the solar system.

  2. The world's largest model... by neonstz · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...is located in Sweden.

  3. Seems odd by Enraged_jawa · · Score: 5, Funny

    "That Earth is located at Percy's Auto Sales (1.0 mile from Sun)..."

    (Percy's must have pretty damn good air-conditioning)..

  4. Re:And NASA Announced... by bad_fx · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...later, when he re-awoke after running face first into Mars, he grogily told reporters that "This new fangled metric system got me confused."

  5. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    One more thing to add to my scale model of the state of Maine.

  6. Ithica's is bigger by spooje · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used to date this girl from Ithaca when I discovered their scale solar system. On their monuments they say the marker for Pluto is in Oahu, Hawaii. Seems to me that would be slightly larger than Maine's model.

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  7. This just in... by SVDave · · Score: 5, Funny

    A small black monolith has been spotted in the vicinity of the Jupiter model.

    Researchers at the University of Maine had no comment.