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Worlds Largest Scale Model Solar System?

Posted by timothy on from the not-polite-to-add-your-own-planets dept.

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.

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  1. John Effing Kerry calls agent a SOB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    while at his mansion in Sun Valley Idaho Sen Kerry called a secret agent who accidently knocked him down a Son of a Bitch...Whlie Mrs Heinz-Kerry said she looked "prettily" going down the slopes.
    How can anyone support these 2 obnoxious bastards is beyond me. Screw Mr and Mrs Ketchup

    "Do you know who I am?" Sen Kerry while butting in line at concert hall

  2. nuff said by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Put solar panels on tubgirl, and bingo.

  3. iTunes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Given HP's recent relationship with Apple on a rebranded iPod, does that mean that 1) the tunes sold in starbucks will be AAC and/or 2) that iTunes will be involved?

    yv

  4. Re:GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Long time no see, Dessimat0r.

    Where have you been?

  5. Use in sports? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Wiring like this could be woven into stretchy sports clothing and used to connect up sensors that monitor athletic performance."

    With the tight restriction on performance enhancing drugs in the Olympics and now mainstream sports, how will this possibly be allowed?

    And even if it was legalized, how much stretching can the body take before succumbing to injury? iox

  6. Our end is near... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...dear god, think of the possibilities. A robot with the ability to play a trumpet constantly...endlessly. The annoyance will be legendary. xgsc

  7. Not what it is all about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Do you really need much compute power in a walk-about machine to do email, web browsing, word smithing ? In a trade off give me battery time over machine horsepower every time.

    Common sense would say so, but unfortunately, newer browsers, widget libraries, and window managers use a lot of resources. I used to use Redhat 7.1 with FVWM and Opera 6. Blazingly fast on my P3/450. Then, because of frustration with incompatible libraries for newer RPMs, I upgraded to Fedora/Opera 7. I still run Fvwm, but this new Opera version (with a newer Qt library, I presume) needs about 2 seconds of CPU time just for getting in and out of focus. If I look carefully, I can see that the borders of the windows inside the Opera window change a little bit depending on the focus. Emacs and xterm still run fine, but everything that has Gtk or Qt is slow as hell. qfw

  8. Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seriously, who gives a fuck?