[HN Gopher] If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)
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If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)
Author : matesz
Score : 247 points
Date : 2022-09-22 09:27 UTC (13 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (joshworth.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (joshworth.com)
| whiddershins wrote:
| What's wild about this is trying to imagine those scales when you
| remember how absolutely huge the earth is relative to each of us.
|
| If you haven't done this before, go out into the desert or
| canyons or the Hoover dam (in the U.S.) and experience viscerally
| how tiny each of us is relative to nature.
|
| Trying to hold that in my mind while also conceptualizing the
| distance to Mars, or the size of the sun ... I can't do it!
| MauranKilom wrote:
| I strongly recommend clicking the "lightspeed" button in the
| bottom right at some point.
|
| You thought scrolling was slow? Wait until you experience the
| solar system _at the actual speed of light_.
| thorin wrote:
| Thanks for pointing that out! Lightspeed is really S---L---O---
| W isn't it?
|
| I'm pleased he still loves Pluto.
| philliphaydon wrote:
| Me too. Pluto will always be a planet to me!
| isolli wrote:
| Related: I find it annoying that we went through the
| trouble of downgrading Pluto, but we still count any rock
| that orbits a planet as a moon. If planets have 69 moons,
| then it becomes tedious and I quickly lose interest in
| learning about them. I wish there was a definition that
| included our moon (obviously), made sure that Mars has at
| least one moon, but limited the number of moons that
| Jupiter and Saturn have to a handful.
|
| Criteria could include: size or weight relative to the
| planet, distance to the planet, apparent size in the sky.
| philliphaydon wrote:
| I had never thought about that. I just googled to find
| out Jupiter has 79 moons? WTF...
| midasuni wrote:
| When I was in high school there were about 50 moons in
| the entire system. There were zero exoplanets now,
| there's thousands today.
| isolli wrote:
| I'm happy that we're finding ever more exoplanets! I
| remember, as a kid, that there was speculation as to
| whether they even existed.
|
| I'm less happy about the moon inflation in our solar
| system. It's pointless. I honestly find the claim that
| Jupiter has 79 moons misleading. A 1 km rock orbiting 20
| million kilometers away, really? It's so far removed from
| what our moon is that we should not be using the same
| word to describe it. It's fine to call it a satellite.
| dylan604 wrote:
| So does Saturn. At least, maybe not exactly the same
| number, but a number just a large
| isolli wrote:
| According to this website, there are dozens of "moons"
| that orbit 10 to 20 million of kilometers away from
| Jupiter and have diameters between just 1 and 10 km. It's
| time for a change of nomenclature!
|
| https://theplanets.org/moons/
| hoseja wrote:
| Either Pluto is a planet and Eris and Haumea and Makemake
| and Sedna and.... are too or you let go of what they taught
| you in elementary school and be fine with the dwarf planet
| designation.
| bnralt wrote:
| I saw a Twitter post the other day showing the orbit of
| planets in the solar system that included Ceres. There
| were tons of replies saying "What's Ceres? Did they
| discover a new planet?"
|
| People would probably have a better idea about our solar
| system if we taught them that we don't know how many
| planets are in the solar system, and told them we were
| going to have some extra focus on the 8 largest (or 13
| largest, or 7, wherever you want to draw the line).
|
| The IAU definition of planet (which wasn't the original
| proposal, and which most planetary scientists don't seem
| to follow) appears to be a conservative attempt to keep
| the number as close to the "traditional" number as
| possible, even if it leads people into having an overly
| simplistic conception of our solar system. And it leaves
| us with a loose definition that specifically states it
| only applies to our solar system, and doesn't apply
| anywhere else in the universe.
| bjarneh wrote:
| Wow, that was even more eye opening. I've always tried that
| website at impossible speed..
| dotancohen wrote:
| Eight and a half minutes to scroll to Earth?
| b0afc375b5 wrote:
| Is it just me or is the speed of light slow? /s
|
| But seriously I always "knew" in the back of my mind that the
| universe is huge. But to have to wait 8+ minutes to scroll
| from Sun to Earth at the speed of light gives a new earth-
| shattering perspective.
| wizofaus wrote:
| Traveling at the sort of speed we can easily imagine as
| "fast", say 150km/hr, it'd take 115 years.
| midasuni wrote:
| The fastest travel speed we can really understand is
| about the speed of sound (jet travel), most westerners
| have travelled at that speed.
|
| At jet speed it takes best part of a month just to get to
| the moon, to get to the sun takes 17 years. To reach
| Neptune you'd have to have left about the same time
| Columbus visited America.
| dhosek wrote:
| >The fastest travel speed we can really understand is
| about the speed of sound (jet travel), most westerners
| have travelled at that speed.
|
| To be pedantic, no, not really. Commercial jets can
| travel at speeds up to 955 kilometres per hour (593 mph)
| (per wikipedia). The speed of sound is roughly 1235 kph
| (767 mph). Also note that commercial jets usually travel
| slower than their maximum speed to save fuel.
| wincy wrote:
| What's really bizarre is from what I understand is those
| photons spend something between 10,000 and 170,000 years
| bouncing around colliding with stuff inside the sun. From
| there it takes a mere 8 minutes to get to earth. [0]
|
| [0] http://www.astronoo.com/en/articles/journey-of-the-
| photon.ht...
| dotancohen wrote:
| And then over 2,000,000 additional minutes to pass the
| nearest photon-emitting (as opposed to reflecting) object
| in the best case.
| vikingerik wrote:
| Technical nitpick (but HN loves these) - the gas and ice
| giant planets do emit photons, in the infrared, where the
| energy comes from gravitational compression. Neptune in
| particular emits 2.4x as much energy as it receives from
| the sun.
| marcosdumay wrote:
| For the photons, any travel is instantaneous, and the
| Earth is just at the side of the Sun.
| aMadMan wrote:
| "Might as well stop now. We'll need to scroll through 6,771 more
| maps like this before we see anything else." pfff, only took like
| a second. I would have gone the other 6,771 more maps to see
| whats out there.
| insane_dreamer wrote:
| a f*ing amazing design
| once_inc wrote:
| Please note that if you want to read all of the blurbs of text
| visible between the planets, you need only to view the source of
| the page. They're just divs, and it saves you a large amount of
| scrolling.
|
| Space is big. Space is empty. We are nothing to space.
| rizky05 wrote:
| capableweb wrote:
| HTML introduces content.
|
| CSS introduces space.
|
| JavaScript introduces waiting.
|
| Seems appropriate that the technology represents itself on this
| page.
| jack_riminton wrote:
| For a site whose UX relies on scrolling, that's a horribly done
| scroll
| edngibson wrote:
| A tip - hold down the middle mouse button down and move your
| mouse around. It's scroll speed is variable dependent on how
| far your mouse is away from the origin point, so it's quite
| useful.
|
| You can clear the entire screen in around 15 seconds if you go
| max speed!
| forgotpwd16 wrote:
| For Linux users, browsers disable this behavior by default
| because it interacts weirdly with middle click paste. To
| enable on Firefox) search "autoscroll" in settings, Chrome)
| run with `--enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll`
| (also there's an extension for it if anyone finds the message
| shown at start annoying).
| darkwater wrote:
| You can use arrow keys as well, really convenient.
| whiteboardr wrote:
| For those who do not want to scroll, here's an absolutely
| brilliant video illustrating the scale:
|
| https://youtu.be/zR3Igc3Rhfg
| matesz wrote:
| That is indeed beautiful video!
| jeroenhd wrote:
| There's a "light speed" button at the bottom (only worked when
| I disabled anti tracker mode in my browser) that will scroll
| for you at the equivalent of light speed. No tired fingers!
|
| The downside is that you'll be waiting 4:47:50.88 to reach
| Pluto.
|
| Alternatively, there's a planet browser on the top, but that
| kind of "cheating" kind of diminishes the point of the website.
|
| Personally, I would've liked the website to scroll vertically
| instead. Shift+scroll isn't difficult, but it's a trick many
| people don't know about so relying on it (or on a touch screen,
| or a scroll bar at the bottom that completely defeats the sense
| of scale that scrolling leaves behind) is a bit annoying.
| qwertox wrote:
| Tip: Get a mouse with a free-spinning wheel like the Logitech
| MX Anywhere 2s. The difference is analogous to using SSD vs.
| HDD.
| a3w wrote:
| Forces me to scroll half a physical meter per 20 sun diameters
| on my mouse wheel. Aborted.
| hakcermani wrote:
| The planets are clickable on top ..
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| That is part of the art. Planet hopping is not considered
| convenient. Would be worse if you had to follow the rockets
| path!
| dpcx wrote:
| I do wish that this contained Voyager data - if for no other
| reason than to show just how far out "we" have actually gone.
| vogon_laureate wrote:
| You could quibble about the scrolling animation finesse but it is
| a nicely designed site and is a great use of horizontal
| scrolling. Plus, always nice to see astronomy content on Hacker
| News (even if it's been posted a few times before). Some of
| Josh's other work is also interesting in terms of web design and
| STEM subjects, like this Max Planck Institute page:
| <https://scattering-amplitudes.mpp.mpg.de/welcome>.
| qwertox wrote:
| Scrolling and waiting for the first galaxy light-years away to
| show up: Mercury. What?
| platos_revenge wrote:
| There's an irl version of this built along a canal in Somerset,
| UK.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Space_Walk
| gopiandcode wrote:
| Funny you should mention that - I actually ran into another in-
| proportion solar system park model in Eugene, Oregon, USA:
| https://eugenesciencecenter.org/exhibits/eugene-solar-system...
| plato_vengeance wrote:
| There's an irl version of this built along a canal in Somerset,
| UK.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Space_Walk
| mcv wrote:
| Interesting that this has its own Wikipedia page, but the Dutch
| Melkwegpad does not.
|
| (Edit: turns out there's a ton of these, and while most don't
| have their own page, there's a page collecting them all:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System_model)
| mcv wrote:
| There's a walk somewhere in the east of Netherland that I did
| with my kids a while ago, where you walk through a scale
| representation of the solar system. You start with Pluto (it's an
| old walk), then walk a very long time before you meet Neptune,
| then again a very long time before you come across Uranus. That's
| already a major part of the walk right there. Then the planets
| start coming quicker, and the last 10 meters or so is the inner
| solar system. And after that is the radio telescope array at
| Westerbork.
|
| It really gives a good feel for the massive difference in
| distances between the inner and outer solar system. I strongly
| recommend it to anyone who is in that vicinity.
| bumbledraven wrote:
| This site overlays a model of the solar system at the desired
| scale on the Google Maps location of your choice:
|
| https://thinkzone.wlonk.com/SS/SolarSystemModel.php?obj=Sun&...
|
| Helps with the planning process for building your own model
| solar system.
| midasuni wrote:
| There's quite a few at different scales - in fact I believe the
| mall in Washington DC has one.
| darkwater wrote:
| There is a similar thing (but at reduced scale) in the "Cite de
| l'Espace" in Toulouse, France. Just liek this site (old but
| gold), it really helps you to put things into perspective.
| daniel-cussen wrote:
| You know what I got the education I got, I memorized that,
| there was little new information making it a non-planet. You
| know those same guys call carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen metals?
| It's a description. In astronomy, metal means anything greater
| than hydrogen and helium. Every element but the first two.
| Change of nomenclature, really, and I guess motivated because
| of seeing other planetary systems.
|
| The entire Solar System is highly aberrant. Single star,
| instead of binary star. Then, a moon around earth, very large
| moon, besides, it is the same size in the sky (varying over
| time) as the sun, leading to different eclipses (like anular
| eclipses, which accurately measured a biblical event 4000 years
| ago, to the day, I think it was a Tuesday). Like everything is
| very unique, apparently.
| sonar_un wrote:
| There is one in Zurich very similar as well. With the
| representations of the size of the planets.
| capableweb wrote:
| Seems there are a whole bunch of them across the planet:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System_model
|
| Largest one being in Sweden, with a scale of 1:20,000,000
| (spanning the whole country):
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System_model
|
| In comparison, both the Zurich and Netherlands one are
| 1:1,000,000,000
| mcv wrote:
| That one in Sweden is huge! Country-wide indeed.
| danjoredd wrote:
| I remember an episode of Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman on PBS where
| one of the challenges was to build a scale model of the Solar
| System by placing planets on the sidewalk. The kids had to walk
| for miles to get it to scale. My at-the-time 12 y/o brain was
| blown
| I-M-S wrote:
| Zagreb has one of these as well:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Views
| ovi256 wrote:
| My town in France has this as a riverside walk, spread over 5
| km into the next towns. Well, my hometown has the inner system
| over a few hundred meters, then it's vast emptyness over the
| next 5km :)
|
| http://www.planetesdelyvette.universite-paris-saclay.fr/IMG/...
| danieldk wrote:
| Just want to say that I loved going there as a kid. The
| distances were very educative. They also had a 1kg (I think)
| block of iron that you could lift, and you could then try what
| it'd feel like with the gravitation of the different planets.
| davedx wrote:
| Ha no way. My in-laws just moved to Drenthe. I'm definitely
| going to check this out with the kids, thanks a lot for the
| tip!
| mcherm wrote:
| My college had a similar installation, with the inner solar
| system on the walls of the physics/astronomy building and the
| other planets scattered about the campus at appropriate
| distances. But my favorite part was the plaque that said that
| somewhere in Alaska was the final piece of the installation: a
| scale model of the nearest star.
| dylan604 wrote:
| For the scale model in Alaska to really sink in for your
| story, it would have helped to know where your college was
| located. If your college was in the Yukon would be one thing,
| but if your college was in Miami that would be totally
| different.
| thombat wrote:
| Sounds like a scale of 1:1,000,000,000 so the Earth is 150m
| from the Sun, Mars is 75m further, and Pluto somewhere around
| 6km. That's the same (mind boggling) scale as our local one -
| and to complete the picture you can put a toothpick 23.585km
| from the sun and move it every day 147cm further from the sun.
| A 20nm fleck on the tip of the toothpick is then Voyager 1
| represented on the same scale.
| globular-toast wrote:
| Sweden has a permanent one. The inner planets are in Stockholm
| while the outer planets are across the rest of Sweden.
|
| There was a touring one that was in Cambridge (UK) recently and
| we thoroughly enjoyed walking it even if the walk to Pluto was
| quite far. Walking it in reverse order would have been better,
| perhaps. Didn't think of that.
| april_22 wrote:
| I can imagine that is type of things are the best possible way
| to visualize the scales that we are living in.
|
| Would love to see something similar for bigger dimensions, e.g.
| distance to the nearest star, galaxy or exoplanet.
| paulette449 wrote:
| Caherdaniel, Kerry, Ireland, in a dark sky preserve [1] has a
| "Walk of the Planets" [2] along the Kerry Way hiking trail
| where both the planets and distance between them (3.5kms) are
| to scale. It's a really interesting way to see the relative
| size of the planets and the distance between them.
|
| [1] - https://www.darksky.org/our-
| work/conservation/idsp/reserves/... [2] -
| https://www.caherdanieldarksky.com
| tonetheman wrote:
| What I love about that site when you combine it with 1 pixel =
| 3478 km.
|
| If you drove 88km an hour it would take you almost 40 hours to
| drive across 1 pixel!
|
| Our solar system is big big big.
|
| I used to do the math with my kids when they were young and first
| found out about division. My story would be lets drive to the
| moon. And then we would figure out how far it was and how fast we
| could drive.
|
| I love that site.
| Overtonwindow wrote:
| Wow that was really epic! What an excellent presentation of size
| and distance. Beautiful work!
| 2Gkashmiri wrote:
| and to think you can go out in space and hit a planet or
| something by mistake, you know.... like kids do when walking on
| the sidewalk?
| mwidell wrote:
| In Sweden, there is a scale replica of the solar system, with
| correct distances. The sun is represented by the Avicii Arena,
| the world's largest spherical building.
| http://www.swedensolarsystem.se/
| Overtonwindow wrote:
| A very science question as I finally arrive at Jupiter.. Is it
| possible that at one point, Jupiter was actually a sun?
| egberts1 wrote:
| this is cool!
|
| I wish we could see yet another live indicator on that map, a
| speed indicator of our scrolling in actual mph, km/h, AU, parsec,
| and speed of light.
|
| this way we can see the speed of our scrolling!!
| dotancohen wrote:
| If you scrolled to Earth in less that eight and a half minutes,
| then you were already breaking the speed of light.
| pleb_nz wrote:
| I'm confused
|
| If the moon is a single pixel, how is it shown as a half moon
|
| Shouldn't it be a single dot/pixel?
| lostlogin wrote:
| If it's a half moon we'll need sub-pixel rendering.
| jawadch93 wrote:
| mrfinn wrote:
| I did a spreadsheet some time ago with the appropriate
| proportions, taking the data from the NASA website, just for fun,
| thinking about how big the solar system would be if the sun would
| be like a 60cm diameter (big) beach balloon.
|
| My results:
|
| Mercury: 26m away, pinhead alike.
|
| Venus: 49m away, pea alike.
|
| Earth: 67m away, pea alike (again).
|
| Mars: 103m away, small lentil alike.
|
| Jupiter: 350m away, tennis ball alike.
|
| Saturn: 645m away, golf ball alike.
|
| Uranus: 1,3km~ away, 2EUR coin alike.
|
| Neptune: 2km~ away, 1EUR coin alike.
|
| PS. Forgot the most impressive info by far... in that "beach
| ballon=star" scale, our closest star neighbor is almost 7,000kms
| away!
| leobg wrote:
| For visualizing the timescales, there's a great app. Walk 4.6 km
| through 4.6 billion years of time.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/app/deep-time-walk-earth-history/id11...
| intrasight wrote:
| The "Pretty empty out here" made me laugh. And the "you are
| here".
|
| "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-
| bogglingly big it is" -- Douglas Adams
|
| Is cool that it's done in SVG. Here's Earth:
| <circle cx="5" cy="5" r="5"></circle>
| a3w wrote:
| This solar system was on ycombinator 27-ish times before:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=joshworth.com
| matesz wrote:
| Interesting. Shouldn't there be an autoredirect to the existing
| thread on submit?
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| If t < x, yes
| forgotpwd16 wrote:
| Maybe if it was recently resubmitted and already had a
| discussion (usually a mod will mark the newer as dupe) or
| recently submitted multiple times without getting attention
| (since at this point it becomes spam). But if recent
| submission was long time ago (so older thread is basically
| archived), it makes sense to be submitted anew.
| kuu wrote:
| "Funny" thing is that an user has submitted it (at least) twice
| matesz wrote:
| FYI there is an icon on the bottom right corner, which makes
| scroll automatic with the speed of light to scale.
| sci_prog wrote:
| "The Moon diameter (approximately equal to the distance from New
| York to Las Vegas)"
|
| Imagine how glorious and huge the Earth must look like from the
| Moon.
| NickRandom wrote:
| No need to imagine, have a look at
|
| https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1...
|
| and
| https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_6...
|
| I would have linked to the 'Blue Marble' picture but that was
| taken mid-flight rather than from the moon itself.
| sci_prog wrote:
| The photo doesn't do it justice tho. Just like a photo of the
| full Moon low on the horizon doesn't look anywhere close to
| what my eyes are seeing. Now imagine a full moon, with a
| diameter roughly 4 times as big, that's how big the Earth is
| looking back from the moon. North America itself is the size
| of the full moon. Pretty wild to think about.
| yrgulation wrote:
| And how gloriously dumb human kind looks like considering we
| are fighting petty wars over resources we could get from space
| in unlimited amounts.
| MarcosDione wrote:
| the author seems not to have kids; 'When are we gonna be there?'
| should be the much terse 'Are we there yet?' :)
| mg wrote:
| That everything is so empty is the aspect of the universe that I
| find most surprising.
|
| This also holds for small things like atoms. They are mostly
| empty space, too. And for bigger things like galaxies.
|
| Most other aspects seem to be "good" choices. Like limiting the
| speed of things. The way it is limited (as described by special
| relativity) is even really elegant. The uncertainty as described
| by quantum theory and how it is coupled to the observer is
| downright cool. I often think "Yes, if I made a universe from
| scratch, this seems like a nice choice to go with".
|
| But that everything is so empty? I would not have made that
| choice, I think.
|
| You?
| mrtransient wrote:
| Mass is energy, localised in space-time, thats why space mostly
| empty, but mot completly emty, not 0 Kelvin.
| jl6 wrote:
| It may look empty to human eyes but there's actually a lot
| going on in "empty space". Aside from physical objects that are
| just too small to detect from Earth (small asteroids (some
| gravitationally bound to the sun, others just passing through),
| dust, fragments of ancient collisions, gas, isolated molecules,
| and hydrogen and helium leftover from the formation of the
| solar system), there is also the ever-blowing solar wind -
| particles from the sun heading outwards - and a hailstorm of
| photons emitted from far off sources (other stars and galaxies,
| nebulae, pulsars, the extreme red-shifted radiation of distant
| energetic events... and much much more), passing through
| allowing us to see the rest of the universe. On top of these
| natural sources of EM radiation, our solar system at least
| tingles with human-created radio waves. Empty space also
| vibrates with gravitational waves, which we are only just
| starting to be able to detect. We theorise that any remaining
| emptiness might actually be boiling over with the continual
| creation and destruction of virtual particles. And who knows
| what's going on with dark matter?
| pavelboyko wrote:
| Well, if I want my universe to be manageable (don't ask me
| why), introducing the hierarchy of scales from the beginning is
| a natural solution.
| mjreacher wrote:
| > This also holds for small things like atoms. They are mostly
| empty space, too
|
| Not quite so simple, see:
| https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/126512/why-doesn...
| dotancohen wrote:
| > I often think "Yes, if I made a universe from scratch, this
| seems like > a nice choice to go with".
|
| One interpretation of that thought: All the universes that were
| not so elegant, collapsed quickly or did not develop life, or
| did not develop life as complex as us. We are here, living and
| complex, in _this_ universe because _this_ universe is so
| elegant.
| lionkor wrote:
| I think the emptiness of space is an illusion--really, there is
| a lot going on, in terms of gravitational forces, etc.
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| Too much stuff you just end up with a big black hole, perhaps?
| lionkor wrote:
| FYI you can use the buttons in the top to not have to scroll like
| a maniac.
| metayrnc wrote:
| Just from the size of the scroll bar you can get a feeling of the
| size of this map.
| zestyping wrote:
| How does the browser actually render a page this wide?
|
| Is there a framebuffer containing the whole page, or is it a
| display list of vector objects that gets clipped by the page's
| bounding box?
|
| On which platforms would this page cause the browser to run out
| of memory and crash?
| ianai wrote:
| Do one for hydrogen/helium atoms and a side by side comparison.
| Please.
| legec wrote:
| For the people out there looking for a walkthrough :
|
| [spoiler]
|
| https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
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| https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
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| https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
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| https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
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| https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
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| https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
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| https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
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| https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
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| https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
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| https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
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| [/spoiler]
| dang wrote:
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|
| _If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the
| solar system_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13217129 -
| Dec 2016 (11 comments)
|
| _If the Moon Was Only 1 Pixel_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12038584 - July 2016 (4
| comments)
|
| _If the moon were only 1 pixel: a scale model of the solar
| system_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7551423 - April
| 2014 (17 comments)
|
| _If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341690 - March 2014 (178
| comments)
| pixelpoet wrote:
| Pleased to see subjunctive mood winning out for a change!
| scrozier wrote:
| Two years of Latin in high school impressed the subjunctive
| mood onto my brain forever. Now I'm "that guy" occasionally.
| pixelpoet wrote:
| As a German speaker "was" is especially awful sounding
| because we have the exactly analogous "ware" (conditional,
| instead of "war" which means "was") which also sounds very
| similar.
|
| I've had people try to "correct" my use of subjunctive...
| which truly saps my will to live.
| ripe wrote:
| Lol, "was" versus "were" usage is a pet peeve of mine. Looks
| like some time im 2016 they got an English major to fix the
| headline.
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| I really enjoyed that!
|
| I liked the philosophical musings on the theme of "nothing."
|
| This was my fave:
|
| _> It seems like we are both pathetically insignificant, and
| miraculously important at the same time._
| martincmartin wrote:
| Boston had a Community Solar System Trail, where both the size of
| the planets and the distance between them were to the same scale.
| The sun was 11.6 ft at the Museum of Science. Mercury and Venus
| were in the building. Mars was in the Cambridgeside Galleria, a
| few blocks away. Uranus was in a different neighborhood, Jamaica
| Plain.
|
| It was featured on an episode of the kids TV show Fetch! With
| Ruff Ruffman.
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