Description: Help make an enormous, accurately-scaled solar-system model.
Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the [drugstore], but that’s just peanuts to space. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Our minds are tuned to think in terms of everyday events. We reason in sizes like inches and miles, and seconds and weeks.
We aren’t very good at considering the very small and very big, because we don’t have any practice. That’s bad because the universe extends beyond what we see every day and beyond ordinary experience. Most of reality is too deep to fathom, if our mental toolbox is shallow.
We don’t have to be hobbled by our inexperience with the extraordinary. We should make exploring a few grand ideas normal and simple. Let’s make something to get a sense of our celestial backyard.