Oddbean new post about login | logout here's a fun game to play with your sense of cosmic scale: How big would the Earth be, if the Sun were the size of a basketball, and how far apart would the two be? answer in next post 1/2
"If the Sun was a basketball, then the Earth would be the size of a tiny bead, just over 2 mm wide. This bead would sit about 25 m away from the basketball. That's approximately half the width of a football field." 2/2 https://athensscienceobserver.com/2018/05/25/cosmic-proportions/
@ca5977db In York you can cycle the solar system at ten times the speed of light. https://www.york.ac.uk/physics-engineering-technology/outreach/astrocampus/cycle-solar-system/