The Craziest Solar System Model EVER!

There are many solar system models out there, but I've never seen one to this big before. Let's explore what the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune look like on a scale of 52,800,000 to one. Spoiler Alert: It's huge!
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[@ScienceAsylum]

Minor Correction: At 12:17, I say "Alpha and Beta Centauri" ...but I meant to say "Alpha Centauri A and B." Whoops! It's a tiny slip of the tongue, but still deserves a mention.

[@philipberthiaume2314]

Cool video Nick, I hope schools pick it up for science classes, it is a neat perspective, and thanks for the metric measures,

[@richardsanderson8188]

How far away would Alpha Centauri A and B be on the same scale?

[@Sttuey]

@@richardsanderson8188 I asked the same, I can quote you the answer! "You'd have to go around the Earth over 18 times on this scale... or, if you want a straight line distance, about 28 Real-Earth diameters past the Real-Moon."

[@landongriffith4060]

Don't forget Proxima Centauri

[@catman64k]

@@landongriffith4060 Dont forget about Proxima Centauri B =)

[@philipberthiaume2314]

For those asking about Pluto: Distance from the giant tire.... a whopping 111km away (66mi). The size of Pluto: About that of a golf ball. This is an amazing video Nick...

[@ojonasar]

Philip Berthiaume It’s even more impressive that humans sent a probe to Pluto given that it has yet to compete an orbit since it was discovered.

[@gerberjoanne266]

Thanks for this info. I was wondering. Talk about lonely!

[@Novasky2007]

Math. extrapolation of predicted orbits. We basically threw a dart at the eyeball of a bus driver on a moving bus a decade before it was going to pass by the bus stop by dividing the time by the distance and aiming at the bus stop. Ask Scott Manley

[@jbomb1234]

Thanks. I was about to ask this question. Even if they kick it out of the planet club lots of people still love it.

[@sidratulmuntaha7518]

Wow the video also has 111k likes...

[@upandatom]

You are soon becoming my favorite KZbinr Nicko

[@ScienceAsylum]

Awww thanks, Jade!

[@HarshJain-it2bg]

OH Boy !!!!!!! Its just refreshing to see your face @upandatom ...... Remember me....... Your personal creepy guy.

[@coreyms]

Congrats, man! It's clear you put a lot of effort into these videos and we all appreciate it. Looking forward to future vids.

[@gagan4012]

10:43 holding a hoop "you can see its a little smaller than uranus"

[@ChallengeTheNarrative]

Ahhhh. Ba dum tss

[@ABHINAVARYA]

Yeah... But the comparison is awesome.. ☺️

[@Secret_Moon]

you must have decades of constipation to have such a big anus.

[@delrasshial7200]

or anal fucks

[@m_i_g_5108]

@@stardust4001 you know from experience, right? 😂

[@alicwz5515]

0:14 I'm this guy :P You're the best!!!

[@altrocks]

I remember Bill Nye doing this out in the desert on his show years ago. What a fantastic notion! I think most cities should have a permanent set of models of the solar system, to scale, for kids to learn from. When you have to get in the car and drive for 10 minutes just to get outside the asteroid belt it really makes you think about how far away things are in space.

[@crouchingtigerhiddenadam1352]

My family and I are happy to be some of those people who said "let's watch more of this guy".

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

Let's get The Asylum to 10⁶ subscribers, so Nick has to do a scale model of the Milky Way! 🤪

[@bontrom8]

He should put familiar candy bars to show how the stars we know individually are all close by on a baseball park that has 4 adjoined fields haha

[@madkirk7431]

@@bontrom8 lol

[@Misteribel]

@mdiem getting there, we’re at 0.55 × 10⁶. And with the sun the size of a grain of sand, it may be possible to model a few close stars within 100 mile radius.

[@mihailmilev9909]

@@Misteribel bruh.....

[@mihailmilev9909]

@@Misteribel I was just thinking if u made the whole solar system a grain of sand could u fit the milky way on a baseball or football or soccer field

[@CyberRager]

unlike most youtubers this guy announces 100k subscribers in a normal video,its like he doesen't even care...what a legent

[@demukazz]

I am aboard since he had only 2k subs and I really hopped for lots more to come asap, because I was affraid he'd might quit doing videos otherwise.

[@CyberRager]

@@demukazz oh yeah i got 100k subs now BACK TO SCIENCE

[@KhAnubis]

This video is amazing! A scale model of the solar system, and a tour of the Detroit metro area!

[@CyberRager]

KhAnubis watches Nick Lucid?

[@KhAnubis]

Yes, yes I do.

[@CyberRager]

@@KhAnubis 23k subscribers,dude keep up the good work

[@akpak4449]

Solar system tour and Detroit tour are both equally dangerous.

[@gerberjoanne266]

Yes, this video was well planned. Too bad it wasn't done in, say, Paris. I would have loved to have seen that.

[@quahntasy]

This was amazing Nick! We all did "Lets watch more of this guy" when we hit subscribe lol.

[@salecc9432]

He deserves so much more than a 100K! But hey ppl love their dumb shit on youtube so Logan Paul and other dumb shits get millions of subs... Keep up the good work Nick, know that normal people appreciate your videos... I know these videos will help me visualize physics, astrophysics etc... when I teach it to my kids, so I will keep on watching as long as you make them.

[@timeytimes]

Hell no, I didn't. I said, "Hell no!"

[@Bstknk]

s a m e

[@LukaZovko]

You had fun and made a cool and educational video,man you are living the dream!

[@ItsMeScareCro]

Yea because you've gotta be asleep to believe any of it.

[@abhishekdubey957]

This is my favourite youtube channel Thanks for creating it

[@ScienceAsylum]

You're welcome 😊

[@samdell5593]

Hey folks, i wish to remind u that liking this video makes it more likely to be seen by others, its the least we can do to this guy, help more people discover him.🌻

[@Socratica]

A truly relatable model of the Solar System!

[@ScienceAsylum]

Thanks! I worked really hard on this.

[@FewVidsJustComments]

@@ScienceAsylum why didnt u inclide pluto if you mentioned it?

[@Ironcammandoo]

Humans 0 Saiya-jin 1 to 6 Angels 7 😇 Kalki Ironman 5th matriya buddha 8th arc Angel 11th satguru 13th imam and 24th avatar after 2026 😎 Almighty God 9 😇 Humans type 2.5+ after 2026 by Kalki Ironman (christ in the white horse)(son of man on clouds) type 7 and 8 😎 Jarvis the world’s first artificial intelligence (parrot) 😎 Cuz Kalki is ironman batman super saiya-jin superman ben10 saitama Narutoo shaktimaan and every super heroes combined after 2026 😎 Jarvis world’s first artificial living being (just like vision in marvel universe)😎 Made of Quantum and sub quantum particles 😎 Power source quantum energy arc reactor (type 7) level technology 😎 Kalki Ironman going to have every kind of arc reactor like:- type 1 Nuclear fission, nuclear waste, hydrogen fusion, type 2 3 4 5 antimatter arc reactor (solid liquid gas), type 6 electro quantum arc reactor, and type 7 Quantum arc reactor, type 8 limitless quantum energy arc reactor without quantum particles 😎 Kalki Ironman going to have sun in a box million billion tons of hydrogen nuclear fusion reactor type 2 3 4 5 just like sun and stars in the palm of his hand 😎 This all going to happened by self replicating quantum nanobots knowledge energy and techniques at type 7 7 7- respectively 😎 Ironman (Tesla 2.0) going to reveal every secrets of the world specially Tesla and his Antigravity 😎😎😎

[@andrewcarr2431]

we did this at school, but your scale model was far more interesting and informative.

[@mathadventuress]

@@FewVidsJustComments Pluto isn’t a planet

[@AnexoRialto]

And that's just the solar system. As human beings, we have a hard time grappling with both the scale of the universe and the time the universe has existed. The scale is so ridiculous. Great video.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

I saw a video where someone scaled the sun down to 7mm (1/200 billionth scale)...and Proxima Centauri on that scale was over 200km away.

[@douglasstrother6584]

I love your Geekery! My youngest daughter and I built a model of the Solar System using a distance scale of 1ft = 1AU. She did models of the Planets mounted on chopsticks w/clay bases.

[@ScienceAsylum]

That's wonderful! 🤓

[@SyDatNguyen-r4j]

@@ScienceAsylumI also make a scale model of the solar system. The scale in my model is 150 million to 1. This means 1 au = 1 km

[@deeyadeli1435]

I love how you included the metro Detroit area. I feel honored that I live in the same area as Mr. Science Asylum himself! Congrats on 100K subscribers!

[@shardulnewasker2021]

Lol I don't live in America sadly

[@InMaTeofDeath]

Always nice to see something you drive by fairly often show up in a random video.

[@yashrajsood1101]

The cloning part was epic.

[@aqimjulayhi8798]

Me when I first started watching this channel: This guy is looney Me after 5 videos: This guy is looney, I like it. I'm subbing him. Congrats on the 100k! It's really hard to visualize the scale of the Solar System but you pretty much nailed itx

[@mihailmilev9909]

Ikr

[@DoctorShaunB]

I live in Windsor Ontario, and a practicing physician in Detroit. Love that you used landmarks I'm familiar with at a reasonable human scale. This is my new favourite ss model!

[@guyxmas7519]

Haa You got another subcriber from This video! You look like ur having fun, plus giving a tour for tourism! Way To go

[@stephencharlesworth2231]

Congrats on 100k subscribers. Well deserved.

[@l9day]

11:52 sounds like the asteroid belt broke your heart

[@Youcanscienceit]

7:50 - Jupiter is an 8 foot diameter inflatable kiddie pool! It's more expensive than a virtual table but not too bad.

[@Youcanscienceit]

9:11 - Saturn could be a 7.2 ft diameter patio umbrella. There's actually one for sale at 7.2 ft. It's a hexagon though, but close. Also a bit expensive.

[@ScienceAsylum]

I had considered kiddie pools, but I couldn't find one that was 8.7 feet.

[@galacticgui2305]

@@Youcanscienceit That hexagon patio umbrella would be a good representation for Saturn though since its northern pole has a hexagonal shaped storm :)

[@NielsCG]

Congratulations Nick!!! let's go for 200K... you will get there FAST FAST!!

[@blazedinfernape886]

Come on nick you made this video so that you can visit museums. Right?

[@ScienceAsylum]

....maybe.

[@-x-dx7295]

Excellent, comme d'habitude !

[@idanbotbol]

You deserve way more subscribers, been following for a while and enjoying every piece of content along the way, thank you for the hard work on your channel to us crazies!

[@PR-fk5yb]

I have done something similar with my son when he was about 6 yo since he wanted to know about when the dinosaurs went extinct... so we used the lines in the sidewalk as a scale. On that scale he was 6 centimeters away, granny was 60 centimeters away and then we drove the car for about 5 km (up to grandma's house). I knew we were short of about 650 km! But the point was made and it still amazes me even to this day...

[@ScienceAsylum]

Thanks for sharing! 🤓

[@heatherlynn972]

I live in Michigan too!! So cool to see that one of my favorite science youtubers is from the same area!! I live near Brighton so it took me by surprise to see the imagination station on your video, I used to play there all the time growing up. Just wanna say I love your content and I hope you keep it up because you inspire minds with the passion you have for science!!

[@ScienceAsylum]

That's wonderful to hear. I'm glad my video could connect with your memories like that. That's the best way this could have gone, I think.

[@jlsuarez7]

you deserve it dude

[@cyrilio]

Haha that giant tire is awesome. Great video

[@nagyamato]

Nice video with nice scenery, Nick...keep up 👍

[@kacpero2494]

And what is even more crazy is that all of them monsterous planets can fit between the space of our earth and the moon

[@diegopescia9602]

What amazes me the most is the fact that we discovered Neptune using mathematical predictions and then pointed a telescope and voilà. A 1 meter ball located 85,000 meters away from the Sun (in your scale). Pretty amazing.

[@CliffJumpingProd]

0:36 i love that you put a question mark after "question everything" xD hahah

[@vishaalovercome6870]

Hello Nick.. Lot's of love and respect from India.. And Yes. I liked the 7th rule the most..

[@wavedrag]

I legit thought that when I subscribed 😁

[@ScienceAsylum]

Awesome :-)

[@definesigint2823]

It was totally like that for me too. Super easy decision, no regrets :)

[@Robb2430]

Aaaaannnndd another great video. Thanks Nick!!

[@ffggddss]

1:52,800,000 means 1 ft = 10,000 mi.; 1 mm = 32.8 mi Here's a crazy suggestion: Your model takes you out to over 50 miles. Now picture what that model looks like, depicted on your basketball model of Earth; that is, the actual model you're showing, on the actual Earth, as it would be represented on your basketball Earth. Now use that new scale, 1:52,800,000² = 1:2,787,840,000,000,000 to model nearby stars and the galaxy! On your original model, 1 AU was ≈ 9290 ft ≈ 1.76 mi. 1 lt-yr is ≈ 63,000 AU. At your original scale, that's ≈ 111,000 mi, which, in the new scale, is 11.1 ft. That puts α (& Proxima) Centauri, 4.2 lt-yr away, at ≈ 47 ft. It puts the galaxy's diameter, ≈ 100k lt-yr, at ≈ 1,100,000 ft ≈ 200 mi. So draw a 100-mi radius (≈50k lt-yr) circle on a map, around Detroit. That goes somewhere near, idk, Grand Rapids? Cleveland, OH? Ft. Wayne, IN? London, Ont.? Or you could place the Milky Way model using Earth's location in it as origin, some 30k or so lt-yr from the galactic center. Then M31, the "Andromeda Galaxy," is 40 or 50 of those radii away, which would take you to Anchorage? Paris? Moscow? Cairo? Buenos Aires? Just a little reminder how unbelievably huge astronomical distances really are! And then to model the largest known structures in the universe, you'd have to re-scale your model one more time! 1:52,800,000³ = 1:147,197,952,000,000,000,000,000; a scale of 1 m = 15.6 M lt-yr. Now you can model the Local Cluster, the Local Supercluster, the Great Wall, the black-hole merger seen as the first LIGO event, etc. Like I said, a crazy idea!! Fred

[@ScienceAsylum]

Cool.

[@ffggddss]

@@ScienceAsylum You're not the only crazy one out (t)here! Anyway, that's just an inkling about why the scale of the universe is so utterly mind-boggling! Fred PS: My bad - I forgot to thank you for another wonderful video. Thanks!

[@maggsgorilla]

100,000 because you are awesome! Keep it up.

[@jlpsinde]

I loved it! I'm a Patreon supporter!

[@ScienceAsylum]

Thank you so much for your support. A video like this wouldn't have been possible without that support.

[@JavierArveloCruzSantana]

Watching again a year later and noticed you doubled subscriptions. Very well done!

[@shaggar]

This video was such a treat to watch. ❤

[@wurttmapper2200]

9:39 I love just how casually he said that

[@NighthawkGliders]

And the fact that we can create space craft which flies out to said distances and fly by and/or land in such remote planets and their moons is absolutely amazing! Congrats on the 100k subs, Nick! Well deserved! 👍😀

[@ScienceAsylum]

Flying out there isn't too difficult if you've got teams of people running the calculations. Landing? Now that's tough! (even with whole teams of people).

[@billsalvaggio6355]

“Hey. I like museums. OKAY”. lol Spot on, awesome.

[@petslittleworld]

Gr8 video Nick, never imagined the scale of our solar system in terms of real world objects and distances. A thumbs up for showing some interesting places along the way. Congratulations on our 100,000 big crazy fam.

[@icurmt5156]

Fun learning experience as always. Thanks Nick

[@nooneatall5612]

This is amazing! But after quantum physics nothing else is crazy anymore.

[@nateblack972]

Enjoyed the video! Adventure clones... My kinda crazy!

[@mohammedmusaib4862]

Love your videos.

[@user-re2np5cz3f]

4:24 You are awesome! The thought of seeing something like this...

[@AtypicalPaul]

Love you vids! Your awesome and I love to learn

[@GRAYgauss]

Yeah. I'll watch this guy again.

[@MKMK-bj2sk]

*Thanks for letting me into the Asylum*

[@sarahbell2566]

Only 100,000? You deserve so much more. I love you so much.

[@rehaankhan1260]

Congrats on a 100k. 1 Million not far away once you reach this landmark!

[@Sttuey]

He's made it to Earth, but now gotta get to Saturn lol

[@turosfagyi]

Yeah, Nick will reach it fast. Fastfast!

[@ABHINAVARYA]

Yeah he deserve 1 million..👍

[@AlleyKatt]

My family didn't know about the museum in Grass Lake. I'll be taking them there sometime in the next few weeks. I blame you.

[@vinayakpendse7233]

Congratulations! It has been amazing watching your videos,and am sure it will be more in future.

[@imatthewryan4076]

low-key one of the best channels on youtube!

[@Fredo63200]

Amazing model ! That giant tire is a superb coincidence ! Keep up the good work Nick !

[@ScienceAsylum]

I know, right?! I couldn't resist.

[@evilotis01]

yay! 100,000 subscribers, and every one of them entirely well-deserved

[@lordundeadrat]

Nice to see the area I grew up in being highlighted. I remember when the imagination station when in. I was too old to reasonably play on it back then. As an edgy teenager I wouldn't have done it anyway. Went to Highschool in Stockbridge. Right where Neptune coasts through. I used to hang with whole crew of guys in Deerborn Heights. At 100,000 AU. The Oort cloud would extend more than half way to the moon on this scale (assuming I did my math right.) There's still no way to visualize just how big that is. Even at 52,800,000/1. I stated in the Earth-Moon video that the closest stars to the sun would be nearly four times further away than the moon. What that means is that I can clear the entire solar system in about a hour and a half in my car. But Alpha Centari would be so far away that my odometer would roll over during the trip. Just for giggles I did the figures and found Andromeda would be in the neighborhood of Neptune on this scale. Kind of brings the whole thing round back to where we started before we compressed the scale. Thought that was a neat coincidence.

[@KB3PML]

Awesome video, Nick! Congrats on the 100K milestone.

[@kostantinos2297]

Congratulations on the 10⁵ subscribers! That's crazy big.

[@MikaelCruz-kx7vq]

Yooo, I like trains and space, so the fact you put a railway museum in this video about space makes me smile 😃

[@ScienceAsylum]

Awesome 🤓

[@crispypickles8466]

I used to work up on the Hill and my daughter was born at Beaumont in Dearborn. Henry Ford Museum is a good time. 👍

[@2MC]

Whew! Well done! I love talking about scale in science, it is fascinating.

[@gary_dslr2615]

Hi Nick, glad to see you get out and get a ' Little Sun' haha. The Best Yet, you really should be on TV, and for a moment there when you explained curvature of the earth. I thought clone was going to say ' but hey the earths flat'. Exit left one clone with boot up arse :)

[@ScienceAsylum]

HA! I should have done that.

[@cuongdang3304]

This is brilliant

[@no_more_free_nicks]

Congratulations on the, already, 105k subscribers!

[@EntropiaOrganizada]

Awesome video and thanks for giving measurements also in metric... hehehe. Cheers and keep the good job teacher!

[@leisuretime9177]

Finally somebody that can explain the real distances between planets. Thank you very much

[@ShobiShobu]

This was really Crazy Video😜

[@Benjuthula]

Congratulations and thanks for all of your excellent content.

[@IngloriousPirandello]

Yeah!! More crazy stuff!! More clones!!

[@PascalLaprade]

I’m loving this video 100,000 times more than I can express! Thank you so much for what you create!

[@RedwoodTheElf]

I must protest the Pluto Snub. "Dwarf Planet" indeed! Give us an object for Pluto!

[@ferc778]

I agree !

[@Secret_Moon]

Pluto is just a rock. it's about the size of a golf ball, as compared to our moon as a tennis ball.

[@justmeva]

@@ferc778 My thoughts exactly.. Can't believe that the little guy was left out.

[@hotdrippyglass]

Nice work and congratulations on reaching 100K. I also have to thank you for reliving my youth on the mapping. I was born and raised in Wayne Mi and your direction arrows go right through it on your maps. I left in 74 but its good to see positive content coming out of the area after all these years.

[@Wurschtbi3b]

Imagine how big VY Canis Majoris in this scale is🤯

[@ScienceAsylum]

🤯🤯🤯

[@ronaldderooij1774]

About the size of the earth??

[@Wurschtbi3b]

@@ronaldderooij1774 well no, canis Majoris is not bigger then the solar system itself. Here is a nice article: www.quora.com/What-if-VY-Canis-Majoris-replaced-the-Sun So i guess it would be around 20-30 kilometers in this scale.Thats just insane compared to our 26 meter sun 😧

[@christophercharles9645]

Nice shot of the Adventure Clone modeling Neptube. And I just wanted to write "Neptube" and now I have. Thank you, Science Asylum!

[@sidjindal]

Nick please do one video on reversible vs irreversible processes. Its so confusing. Please!

[@ABHINAVARYA]

Yeah that would make a great video specially in terms of entropy..

[@paulbuffey9165]

Be of the best solar system scale videos ever. Easy to remember planetary sizes.🤓

[@hjcks1]

how far out would voyager 1 be?

[@CyberRager]

143 astronomical units or so,it moves 3 AU's every year which means almost 5x the neptune's orbit

[@ScienceAsylum]

In the middle of Lake Michigan.

[@CyberRager]

@@ScienceAsylum did i just help Nick Lucid?

[@ItsMeScareCro]

How far can your mind imagine it being out there, because you'd be correct... about the imagination part.

[@ianajkovacs9944]

I would like to see this man's take on flat earth. ... or why there are so very few single still photos of the earth And His thoughts on planet Nibiru And What he says but the magnetosphere flipping

[@The_Omegaman]

Uranus gets disrespect for its appearance. Its consistent blue is unbelievable to me. Beautiful.

[@jessedampare1379]

Wait...🤔 so the sun’s gravity reaches all the way to the freaking oort cloud?!!

[@ScienceAsylum]

Barely, but yes.

[@scottperry9581]

I'm thinking that the sun's gravity reaches out around 14 billion light years.

[@WSmith1984]

As gravity is infinite, the Sun's gravity is felt by objects far beyond the visible universe.

[@Sttuey]

On paper maybe, but in the real world the rate at which it diminishes (inverse-square law) would surely make it below negligible

[@WSmith1984]

@@Sttuey True, but to my knowledge gravity has infinite range. This means that there is no object in the universe that is not influenced by the sun's gravity, no matter how negligible the force is.

[@Harald-MacGerhard]

Hey Nick, you are the king of crazy, consider that a huge compliment 😎 Gotta love your humor 🤣

[@Emcee_Squared]

Always enjoy your videos! "Shut up Milton!"

[@benjaminbrady2385]

I don’t even know how you still respond to all the comments with detailed help, pretty impressive honestly

[@ScienceAsylum]

It's a lot of work, but it's important.

[@jaybingham3711]

11:15 stop doing that to your pool toy

[@toosas]

Well done Nick! Keep them coming. And get those collabs sorted!

[@jerry3790]

What a coincidence. A spacex rocket failed to land today as well.

[@whereswa11y]

Some call it a fail, but we all know THEY did it to make us believe more. Rocket landing was becoming too easy, was getting a comic like. Fantastic move by SpaceX

[@LuisAldamiz]

Doesn't that happen every other day?

[@Kris-jk9mq]

Soft landed in the ocean off the coast that is still reusable AND the payload made it to orbit; hardly a failure!

[@usmcfutball]

I...am one of the proud 100K! Charge!!

[@PaulPaulPaulson]

A model sun, as seen from model earth, is always the same apparent size as the real sun, independent from the scale factor. Hold a coin in front of the sun at a distance at which it just completely covers it. The distance to your eye then is the distance to the sun (=coin) in your model scale. Actually, don't do that. Directly looking at the sun would be dangerous and stupid. Look at the moon instead. Which reminds me of the fact that you can make a model of the solar system where the sun has the size of the moon, and the scaled distance to the model sun (a.k.a. our moon) would exactly be the actual distance between moon and earth. Again, same apparent size in the sky.

[@jlunde35]

Congratulations Science Dude. You deserve it. Great channel.

[@adamroach4538]

Your videos can make people not interested in science interested.

[@ojonasar]

I love your alter-egos and the self confrontational style of videos it allows.

[@ScienceAsylum]

If you can't argue with yourself, who can you argue with?

[@ojonasar]

The Science Asylum You have a new Patreon.

[@ScienceAsylum]

Thank you!

[@ojonasar]

The Science Asylum As I get older, I'm coming to realise you sometimes get better conversations like that.