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Worlds Largest Scale Model Solar System?
Richard_at_work writes "As the BBC is reporting, the UK is to attempt to create the worlds largest scale model of the solar system ever attempted. At a scale of 1:15million, this brings the distance between the Sun (positioned in Cheshire at the Jodrell Bank Telescope site) and the Earth to 15km or 10 miles, although you will need to travel the entire length of the UK to visit all of the planets. Interesting to note is the distinct lack of a 10th planet :) As well as the 9 planets and the sun, also shown on the model will be Halleys Comet and several asteroids. Would have been great if they had included probes such as Voyager 1." Maybe this claimant for world's largest solar system model will have to expand to keep up.
So, it would be THAT cool to pass Liverpool, the site of URANUS?
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I just finished building a full scale model. I centered it on the sun instead of England though. It took a long time to position Sedna, which is why you're only recently seeing it in the news.
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Best 3rd grade field trip ever!
Will they use slinkies to emulate a wormhole?
silly boy, don't you know the universe is centered on England, it is where God lives after all.
That's because Pluto is a Disney fabrication and doesn't really exist, it was all a big PR stunt to try to bring him up to Mickey's level.
*adjusts tinfoil hat*
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Saturn knocked out of orbit after 12 ton lorry crashed into it. Film at 11.
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However, the british model will be even larger
True, and it will also leak more oil.
Caption on the bottom picture:
Distant Uranus will be sited in Bath
heehee, 2nd grade humor still gets me
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My, they ARE making binoculars smaller and smaller these days!
I will be visiting the UK again and will tie one on at the local pub (yet again) and be the FIRST MAN TO BE ARRESTED FOR PISSING IN PUBLIC ON MARS !
Actually, Uranus is to be placed in Bath
Which is just the way I like it.
Voyager could be represented by some northernly migrating turtle dragging a sign saying "1/16 scale representation of Voyager".
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Hanging up a couple of balls around the country is about as cool as town-twinning and corporate art and is in itself rather pointless. If this has no educational value, it has no value.
HEY!
You're standing on my 1:1 scale, realisticlly textured Earth map. Get off it before you mess it up dammit!
Although, one wonders what the tennis ball is looking at...
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...until I saw this.
"Planet Earth will be sited in Macclesfield. "
If the world was a person it's navel would be Macclesfield. Not a good place or a bad place, just strangely pointless and in need of a clean.
Cos by my calculations they'd have to demolish my house.
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Well the US did a fine job on the full size scale of the moon they built in 1969. Neil got a brain tumor because he didn't have a tinfoil hat.
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I would have thought God would have had a lower slashdot ID# than that.
Will it update itself in realtime?
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