William Tracy nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/10/18 15:25:
> Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
> 
> I've off and on toyed with the idea of building some image (probably in
> SVG--rasters would be too big) of the solar system with all the sizes
> and distances *to scale*.
> 
> Of course, I'd be hard-pressed to do that and still have it be as
> artistic as yours. :-)
> 
I once built a scale model of the Solar system: it was about 4m LONG. The 
planets where enlarged 1000 times relative to the distances, and the Sun only 
100 times. At that scale, the Earth and Venus where represented by ordinary 
mercery pins, Mercury, Mars and Pluto where headless pins, and Jupiter was 9mm 
in diameter, Saturn was about 7mm. Had to scale back the Sun, otherwise, it 
would have overlaped over Venus's orbit!
It was an expo-science project, and peoples where EXTREMELY impressed by all 
that empty space... and got a better understanding of the dificulties posed by 
interplanetary travels, to say nothing about interstelars ones.

-- 
Alain
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind,
for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

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