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I've been interested in scale models of the solar system (or other astronomical systems like say the moon system of Jupiter) for a while, partly to try to teach my kids stuff and partly just because I think they're cool.

My opinion is that this solar system model is too big to be useful. If you're trying to teach people about the scales of space, I think you need something humanly navigable, ideally something where you can see with a single sight-line back to the previous object in the model, or, failing that, where at least you can walk between elements of the model in a short enough time that you can kind of keep yourself on-task and thinking about the model for the whole walk.

parent aetherson 2 years ago

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