Oddbean new post about login | logout "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 I've seen scales like this mentioned elsewhere and always took it for granted that the numbers were right. But I was curious what this scale was, and what that meant for the orbits of Jupiter and Pluto. So rough calculations show this is 5.42 billion to 1 scale. And if the sun was on the goal line, Jupiter would be the length of the field, past the endzone, and about 10 rows up into the stands. (147m from the basketball.) Pluto would be 1.1km away. (And yes, Earth is at 27m.)
@ca5977db reminds me of this fantastic project that replicated the solar system to scale on a desert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3Igc3Rhfg