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Largest Scale Model of the Solar System

Posted by michael on from the gaz-guzzling-science dept.

rotor writes "The world's largest scale model of the solar system, covering 40 miles, has just been dedicated. For people interested in seeing it in person, you'll have to take a trip up to northern Maine."

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  1. Wow! by avalys · · Score: 5, Funny

    Holy shit! Not only that, it's so big it extends 10 days into the fourth dimension!

    (This story was posted 10 days ago)

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  2. Yo Mama Joke Fodder... by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yo mama's so fat, when she walks down Route 1 people slow down and say "that's no moon..."

    (Note: Before modding me off-topic, RTFA.)

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  3. Apologies to Stephen Wright... by Big+Sean+O · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got a larger model of the solar system that that!

    It's at the 1 foot = 1 foot scale.

    Currently, you're standing on it...

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    1. Re:Apologies to Stephen Wright... by morcheeba · · Score: 2, Funny

      The EU just commissioned one that will be 1.05 meter to 1 meter, making this slightly bigger than yours.

      (+/- 5% tolerance)

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  4. Enough McCartney. What about Lennon? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny

    ""What this is really about is science education," McCartney said."

    Hey Jupe, don't make is sad
    We took big Mars, and made it smaller
    There's a Venus, behind the Portland Wal-Mart,
    Then you can start to make it better.

    Hey Jupe, don't be afraid
    Near Castle Rock, they have placed Pluto
    The size of a city block, with shiny fiberglass skin
    We'll have a concert by Menudo

    And any time you go to Maine, hey Jupe, refrain
    We've carried these worlds upon our shoulders
    For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool.
    They placed Neptune where Rangely, where it's much colder.

    NA-NA-NA-NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA.

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  5. Ayuh by leviramsey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yuh can't get theyuh from heyuh...

  6. This "solar system" place seems oddly familiar... by jensend · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news, a forest composed mostly of fungus in Siberia has been proclaimed the largest full-scale model of the minds of Slashdot editors. "The largest dissimilarity between the model and what it represents," said the scientist making the press release, "seems to be that the fungus, through its slow evolutionary and adaptive processes, could almost be said to have a memory of past events and of what has and has not succeeded in the past."

    DUPDUPDUPDUPDUPDUPDUPDUPDUPDUPDUPDUPDUPDUPDUPDUP
    (initials of proteins coded for by an excerpt of a string of DNA common to all /. editors)

  7. When School Science Projects Attack by mlush · · Score: 5, Funny

    When little Kevin McCartney decided to do a model of the solar system for the School Science Fair little did he know how big it would get (cut to tearful Kevin) "Well I thought a scale of 1:93,000,000 sounded about right when I made Pluto out of a pingpong ball, then the teacher made me <sob> finish it!!! It took 20 years, now I'm a Professor the University of Maine and its only just finished it. I hope Mrs Pringle will now leave me to get on with my life"