The HUGE 5.9km Scale Model Solar System!

[@geoffj3191]

I can't believe how powerful gravity is. When you stand beside Pluto which is tiny, and see how far away and how small the sun is at that scale, it's just mind bending to think they are locked together by gravity.

[@CannonRushed]

And yet so weak we can stand upright, walk, run, and jump even though we are basically bolted onto a rock orders of magnitude bigger than ourselves

[@dabguy0018]

Soz I accidentally disliked but now I liked your comment

[@geoffj3191]

@@CannonRushed But just try and leave !!

[@1uberfried]

And it doesn't rip our moon out of its orbit and we're 41X closer to the Sun.. that is amazing or a lie hahaha

[@RUS38]

Yep, basically they think we are that dumb to believe this to be true.

[@edl5731]

The coolest thing is when you realize you can actually travel faster then light in the model.

[@Pyrolonn]

Yes, and such superluminal speeds result in those touring the model returning younger than when they started.

[@nitsanbh]

The speed of light in this model is 30cm per second, which is 1.08km/h, or 0.67mph

[@nitsanbh]

It turns out the speed of light in the model is almost exactly 1 feet per second. You can march there and pretend to be light.

[@xochitlpauli5622]

​@@nitsanbh this also implies you could circunvent earth in ~4 years by just walking (considering a flat terrain, no oceans and no rest either).

[@dingypt]

These comments blew my mind. Never thought about the speed of light being "so slow". What a great new perspective, for me that is. Thanks guys!

[@samuelsalita1660]

Love the addition of Proxima Centauri, and how it's distance is also to scale

[@fromnorway643]

If the Earth's circumference had been twice as large, we could have put Sirius next to the Sun in this model in stead of Proxima Centauri.

[@shep9231]

That was just genous.

[@erictrumpler9652]

Could have included Alpha and Beta Centauri as well...Alpha, not Proxima, is the principle star of that system... and those stars are known to have planets as well. The distance from Alpha to Proxima is about 430 times the radius of Neptune's orbit. Following the Australian coast, that would put Alpha at Brisbane...

[@fromnorway643]

@@erictrumpler9652 It's Alpha Centauri A and B. A is slightly larger and brighter than the Sun while B is somewhat smaller and fainter. A is of spectral class G (same as the Sun) while B is of spectral class K (somewhat cooler than the Sun), but they are both considered to be pretty sunlike. Beta Centauri is a giant bluish star (spectral class B) that is much brighter and hotter than Alpha Centauri A and B, but it's also nearly 100 times farther away.

[@erictrumpler9652]

@@fromnorway643 Ok, thanks for the correction... I didn't realize that Alpha B and Beta Centauri are different stars. I thought Alpha B would designate its second planet...

[@jimday666]

That Proxima Centauri scale distance was cleverly put there! Kudos

[@saul_goodman15]

my mind was blown when he said you have to do the entire globe tour to get to proxima 😮

[@SharmaTushar1-yt]

Yes, that was really cool. Also, to think how massive the scale actually is compared to what we see on the books. Would love to visit this place once.

[@XXXX-yc6wv]

Man, public art usually sucks, but this installation is incredible! The Proxima Centauri addition is hilarious!

[@rismorismo]

Might be cause it is more science and maybe even educative than art. Public art still sucks.

[@johnwon6986]

i won't doubt if 100 out of 100 people believe that, thats the actual distance between sun n proxima centauri beside being known about all planets distances in scale... lol, people usually don't have that much brain cells to comprehend that simplicity or maybe its a place where people leave their thinking power at home..😅☺

[@XXXX-yc6wv]

@@johnwon6986 Rich to talk about the intelligence of others when you can't write coherently.

[@alexanderpatrick4866]

Lol

[@johnwon6986]

@@XXXX-yc6wv English not my first language n still learning,.. n i m talking about common sense of measuring things, genius..😀

[@ryttyr14]

Did you know that Sweden have a massive scale model of the solar system as well? Except that our model is a biiit bigger, with the sun being represented by the Avicii Arena building (formerly known as Globen or the Ericsson Globe Arena) and the entire model as a whole stretching for almost the entire length of the country. Besides all of the planets it also includes, I believe all, of the dwarf planets as well as a couple of comets that orbits the sun.

[@Grodstark]

It's the biggest model in the world.

[@herranton]

​@@Grodstarknah, I have an incredibly detailed 1:1 model of the solar system. I keep it out in space. In fact, were living on one of the models right now. You can't prove I don't or that we aren't.

[@shep9231]

I did not know that. Cool!

[@lizekamtombe2223]

Also has the chock horizon, where the thermal pressure from the sun is coubtered by the cosmic preasure.

[@MrBeenus]

​@@herrantonYou don't own the planets lier

[@trogdorbu]

Fun fact - we often think of the speed of light as fast, but against the vast distances of space, it's incredibly slow. You can maybe appreciate this in this model if you time yourself. If you reach Neptune in less than 4 hours, you've travelled faster than the model scale speed of light. At 4.5km, that's easy work for most.

[@robrussell5329]

If you traveled to Neptune in four hours, you would become pure energy.

[@alphamorion4314]

But can you start at the Sun modelo in Melbourne, walk the circunference of the Earth, return to Melbourne and reach the Proxima Centauri model in 4.5 years? If so, congratulations: you're still faster in relation to the scale, than light in the real thing

[@disuser-lp3qv1tm8f]

You would if you yourself were on scale. Good luck with that!

[@trogdorbu]

@alphamorion4314 yeah another good route to consider! Even Magellan's crew would have outpaced the scaled speed handily while running that route

[@disuser-lp3qv1tm8f]

You peeps left yourselves out of the equation. It seems this "small detail" escaped your tiny brains (you know, the brains that are one billionth of their real size).

[@michaelfink64]

Hi Steph, nice trip through the solar system. Couple of corrections: 1. 0.23 cm is 2.3 mm, not 23 mm; 2. the diagram at the end of your video has Earth at 0.1 km from the sun and Venus at 0.15 km; these should be reversed.

[@0NeeN0]

yeah, for imperial users it might be hard to understand. 10mm=1cm 10cm=1dm (rarely used, most people use 100cm= 1m), 10 dm is 1m, 1000m is 1km, then it's always 000 to go higher so that jump is little bit counter-intuitive

[@0NeeN0]

I mean between m and km is also da and h, 10m=1da and 10da=1h, 10h=1km but I have never heard of using deca and hecto while describing distance, diameter, volume, surface area etc. Also there are lower units than mm but you rarely use them, instead you use scientific notation

[@dexterpoindexter3583]

​@@0NeeN0 "...rarely use them..." Generally quite true. Well put. Yet when you're shopping for the lightest-weight smartphone yet, you may well thank the skilled chip designers who've learned how to fabricate their art on the nanometre and picometre scale. (Which also require smaller and smaller batteries.) This makes a human hair cross-section look almost as big as Jupiter, it does...

[@MR-intel]

​@@0NeeN0 Whst are da and h? I thought 1h denotes 1 hour.

[@0NeeN0]

@@MR-intel I made huge errors, 10dm=1dam (10m), 10dam=1hm (100m) 10hm=1km but we don't use those except dm sometimes, because dm cubed is 1l. We use just cm, sometimes decimeters (1=10cm). meters and km (1km= 1000m), nobody uses dm, dam and hm, at least no one I and my friends knew our entire years + teachers (I'm 23)

[@agx111]

5:13 idk why but seeing pluto included i am so happy its like u include that quite kid that lives alone to a party :D

[@nope24601]

Because Pluto being kicked out of the planet club was done by a handful of mean girls who didn’t advertise the meeting where the vote was had. Pluto is a bully victim.

[@DesertBro]

Should have included Charon, since it's more a dual-dwarf planet system, but Charon would be a pin head.

[@malvoliosf]

I was 100% prepared to boycott the entire continent of Australia if they had dissed Pluto. Neil DeGrasse Tyson can kiss my ass.

[@Pit1993x]

5:39 2.3mm not 23mm ;) Very cool model. If I ever happen to be around there, I definitely want to check it out. ^^

[@ZopcsakFeri]

I came looking for this from the Metric World. Thank you!

[@wintaaaaa]

They put Earth before Venus

[@hoilst265]

He did this just to get engagement.

[@thosearentpillows5638]

@@wintaaaaano they didn’t.

[@usagiakagi]

@@thosearentpillows5638 5:48 they did

[@Laceykat66]

Actually, Venus is considered the "sister planet" to the Earth due to its size. Mars has never been considered a "sister," only the best planet to try and land on right now. Something I am sure they did not include in this fantastic model is the Asteroid Belt, which is wider than the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Great video, thank you.

[@john_rehn]

Well.... Mars is the little brother :)

[@Laceykat66]

@@john_rehn I can agree with that. 😁

[@TomDreamshow]

asteroid belt wouldn't be seen anyway

[@Laceykat66]

@@TomDreamshow I know and it does not fit the style of the public art project, it just would have been a nice addition, though I don't know how. Not an artist you see. ☺

[@TomDreamshow]

@@Laceykat66 its cuz the belt is ridicuosly sparse and the biggest objects would barely be visible

[@oskaveli662]

Who else was happy for Pluto!

[@la7dfa]

Actually I am glad they were able to remove Pluto from the standard planet list, despite of human bias. It has not cleared its orbit, and it is one of several icy big planetesimals.

[@edonslow1456]

Love what they did proxima centuri, that's genius.

[@nonsensefactory]

Me too what a great idea.

[@mattcoadtube]

I live in Melbourne so I did the trail myself. So you see Earth to the moon, the furthest any human is ever been and its 30cms apart. You can touch both at the same time. And I think I rented a bike to do the full distance of the model. Well just our solar system anyway. But actually getting on a bike and doing the distance on a nice sunny afternoon really helps you grok how far it is to Pluto in a visceral way. And then Proxima Centauri, right around the freaking earth. Really puts in perspective how hard interstellar travel is.

[@zublacus]

It was so confusing at first…then it was…OMG, that’s genius.

[@AndrewMorison_morrie]

Lived all my life in Melbourne and didn't realise that this art installation existed.. Thanks for informing even those from old Melbourne town.. :)

[@rakov1]

I'll be making a trip from adelaide just to check this out.

[@lolbots]

don't be a house mouse

[@DonnaChamberson]

Melbourne is a piece of SHIT town.

[@liptonicetea274]

Me too 😂

[@gregwyatt4555]

Melbourne born and bred (for 67 years) and I didn't know either. I have ridden along there too. Will have to go for another ride soon!

[@northislandguy]

Fun video and a real win they included Pluto - Well done Melbourne 🤙🏽

[@davegrundgeiger9063]

I grew up with Pluto in the family, so I'm glad it was invited to this family photo.

[@RatedVideos]

We have the same thing in Sweden (worlds biggest model solar system), however with buildings/locations with a scale of 1:20 millions. The Swedish Solar System. We've got the Sun (Globen), Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon and Mars all in Stockholm. With rest of the outer planets/dwarfs spread across rest of Sweden. Jupiter in Arlanda Airport, Saturn in Uppsala all the way up in north we've got Sedna which is located in Luleå. You could take your bicycle but would take some time =)

[@eliastelsgard5237]

Hahah cykel från oxie till luleå😅

[@geoffj3191]

Ah, but do you have the nearest star like this one does?

[@PHDiaz-vv7yo]

I’m in Stockholm all the time! Why haven’t I seen this?

[@myleswillis]

@@PHDiaz-vv7yo Because you have a life and you don't hang out in Mörby centrum?

[@Thepissheadman]

How far is Sedna compared to Pluto?

[@JosephTLabriola]

That Proxima Centauri hack is 🔥🔥🔥

[@JustinRoberts217]

We've had one of these in my town since 2004 along a popular pedestrian trail and it's always fun to walk along it and realize how much distance is between some of these planets!

[@johanvangelderen6715]

Eugene Oregon ?

[@steffenfrost995]

Would love to know howanunof there there are in the world and where the nearest one to me is. Is there a Google map/ directory of them?

[@cccpike]

@@steffenfrost995 Wikipedia has you covered, not surprisingly. Search for "Solar system model". Probably not a complete list though, there are bound to be more no one has bothered to include. There is one just like this in my home city of Helsinki which I've often biked around. It is built around a large bay of mostly open water, and thus the sun, located on a pole on a hill, is visible from nearly all of the planet sites.

[@ALW-hk3bz]

we have one in York, UK@@johanvangelderen6715

[@Mizt_Plays]

It was wild that Proxima Centauri is a globe’s circumference away from the scale sun

[@pocket3216]

And a lil more

[@romansenger2322]

And its just the next star out of 100billion in the milky way, where our galaxy is one of 100billion more. Its just mind bending. I wonder if a species will ever figure everything out

[@thornwebdesign]

Brilliant video, thank you for taking the time out to show us this.

[@kieran150]

Ive been a melbourne resident for 20 years, literally drove right past this TWICE 2 days ago and had zero idea it even existed until now!

[@sturvinmurvin9408]

I've always wanted to see something like this. My son and I are always trying to visualize these giants and this is great! Thanks for sharing Stef!

[@0NeeN0]

Yeah, a lot of people have no idea how really small planets are compared to our star. Sun could fit inside 1.3 million Earths, 21.2 million Mercury, 1.5 million Venus, 7 million Mars, 1.000 Jupiter (1300 Earths in 1 Jupiter), 1,700 Saturn, 22.000 Uranus, 1,800 Neptune. Also Ganymede (Jupiter III moon) and Titan (Saturn VI moon) are both bigger than Mercury. It's hard to even imagine and don't get me started on other planetary systems even in MIlky Way let alone other galaxies. I love that you and your son share that awesome hobby!

[@steveaustin2686]

You can make your own with a playground ball, roughly 8in or 20 cm in diameter, for the Sun. Then you need some pinheads, 2 peppercorns, and some various nuts for the planets and moons. I used the model below a few times for homeschool and public school presentations. The planet walk is 1,019 yards or roughly 0.6 miles or almost a kilometer long (0.93) and includes Pluto. Dropping Pluto saves 242 yards (221m). So the Sun and the planets are still visible and the model is short enough for an easy walk, even for young children. It doesn't take much extra work to figure out how far the moons are from the various planets, ie the Moon is 2.4 inches (6 cm) from Earth. During the walk, the asteroid belt starts 17 yards (paces) past Mars and lasts for 26 yards (23.7m). On average, the asteroids are 6 inches (15cm) apart at this scale and vastly smaller than the pinheads for even the largest asteroid. The mass of ALL of the asteroids in the asteroid belt are estimated to be just 3% of the mass of the Moon. For Proxima Centauri, pick somewhere roughly 3,990 miles (6,421km) from where you are doing the walk, as at this scale, that is how far the nearest star is from Earth. This really shows just how BIG the solar system is and just how small even the planets are. Yet that spacecraft are routinely sent to them, shows the accuracy that space agencies need. THE THOUSAND-YARD MODEL or, The Earth as a Peppercorn Copyright 1989 by Guy Ottewell Google the title and you should find various websites and pdfs with his model.

[@JadeMythriil]

Proxima Centauri's distance is mind boggling! The entire distance from earth to Proxima in the scale model is the entire circumference of the earth and then some! If we consider for a moment that if a spaceship takes just as much time to reach the planets as this bike does in the scale model, it would still take over half a year to reach the closest star!

[@sebastiangottlieb1527]

At this scale, biking is multiple times the speed of light, so it would take way more than half a year

[@tomas756]

At this scale light travels 1.08 km/h, with bike you can go 20x the speed of light in this model. Proxima Centauri is about 4 light years far from Sun, that with this speed of bike you should be there in 76 days (365*4.2/20)

[@jovetj]

It's not mind boggling to how big all of space really is. And how much of space we will never see EVER because it's moving away from us so fast its light will never ever get to us.

[@toolebukk]

Oh man! Five years ago I had this idea to create this exact thing, even down to the scale, but in my hometown. I never had the time and resounrces to gp through with it. I love seeing this has been done elsewhere already!

[@steveaustin2686]

It doesn't take much for a temporary one. You can make your own with a playground ball, roughly 8in or 20 cm in diameter, for the Sun. Then you need some pinheads, 2 peppercorns, and some various nuts for the planets and moons. I used the model below a few times for homeschool and public school presentations. The planet walk is 1,019 yards or roughly 0.6 miles or almost a kilometer long (0.93) and includes Pluto. Dropping Pluto saves 242 yards (221m). So the Sun and the planets are still visible and the model is short enough for an easy walk, even for young children. It doesn't take much extra work to figure out how far the moons are from the various planets, ie the Moon is 2.4 inches (6 cm) from Earth. During the walk, the asteroid belt starts 17 yards (paces) past Mars and lasts for 26 yards (23.7m). On average, the asteroids are 6 inches (15cm) apart at this scale and vastly smaller than the pinheads for even the largest asteroid. The mass of ALL of the asteroids in the asteroid belt are estimated to be just 3% of the mass of the Moon. For Proxima Centauri, pick somewhere roughly 3,990 miles (6,421km) from where you are doing the walk, as at this scale, that is how far the nearest star is from Earth. This really shows just how BIG the solar system is and just how small even the planets are. Yet that spacecraft are routinely sent to them, shows the accuracy that space agencies need. THE THOUSAND-YARD MODEL or, The Earth as a Peppercorn Copyright 1989 by Guy Ottewell Google the title and you should find various websites and pdfs with his model.

[@31stoffl]

Me too, think about 7 Years ago, i was not the only one, but i prefer with the Colour's

[@oddjam]

They have to-scale solar system models all over the place. But it's still a good idea.

[@g30ffm0rt0n]

Yeah, I also started conceiving a scale model of the solar system about a decade ago, half the size of this one. All I have done so far is to find household objects to represent the planets. On my scale Jupiter is a softball, Saturn was turned on a lathe to get the shape right, about the size of a mandarine/tangerine. Never did finish it...

[@MR-intel]

Zurich has had one for about 30 years.

[@larryberman6011]

Nice to see. There is also a model in the US, in the state of Maine, extending 64.4 km from Presque Isle to Houlton. The scale is mile = 1 astronomical unit (distance from the Sun to the Earth) so the scale is about 1: 93 Million. So the planetary models are larger than Melbourne's. Venus was right next to the parking area of our motel, and is the size of a tennis ball. Earth is about the size of a baseball. The model actually has 2 versions of Pluto, one at its aphelion, and one at its perihelion - the orbit is fairly eccentric. Finally, there is a model of Eris, which is about 90 km south of Houlton, and we never went to see it. In case you wonder about they deal with the Sun model, it is represented by a 19.6 m diameter semicircle on the ground at the base of the school's flagpole. I also understand that there was a model in the Boston area that was similar in scale to Melbourne's, but I don't know whether it still exists.

[@FatManWalking18]

don't forget Uranus is directly in front of the Bridgewater town hall.

[@stevenstart8728]

Being in the USA I bet it is in some random measuring system that no one else understands.

[@larryberman6011]

@@stevenstart8728 Actually, and probably because they are right near the Canadian border, their brochure lists positions in both miles and kilometers.

[@briannorman1750]

@@stevenstart8728Plus in all scientific mediums it is standard to use metric… even in the US

[@wigwagstudios2474]

Unfortunately the Boston one no longer exists…only mars has survived in the mall…

[@joeking4206]

Fantastic. Well done Melbourne. Love from England.

[@BW-pr8qr]

I LOVE THIS! I've been teaching my kids the vast scale of the solar system for years, and never knew that Melbourne had this. So cool!

[@A._Meroy]

There is a similar model in the same scale in Germany right by my home town (Pluto is actually within city limits). It was initiated by a middle school project in 1988. The students determined the correct positions and sizes for the planet models and wrote short essays for the information panels attached to them, but the actual models were done by a professional metal processing company.

[@jimday666]

Which city is that again?

[@ncard00]

Yeah, here in Denmark we have the exact same thing, at 6km long, take that one Melbourne.

[@Pillusch]

Nicht zufällig in Marburg, oder?

[@A._Meroy]

@@Pillusch Nein, nicht Marburg. Zwischen Hainburg und Seligenstadt, am Mainuferweg entlang.

[@Pillusch]

Okay, danke für die Rückmeldung. Weil in Marburg gibt es auch seit einiger Zeit einen sogenannten Planetenpfad ... in welchem Maßstab weiß ich allerdings nicht mehr. Glaube aber ähnlich wie in dem Video hier ;) @@A._Meroy

[@Sunmoon781]

4:05 i love when he almost called uranus the sus pronounce

[@somethinggood-sy1ed]

Whoever name it should be fired. You either have to say anus or urine. Come on

[@Sunmoon781]

@@somethinggood-sy1ed so true but now I call it "urenus"

[@Austin_Playz27]

@@somethinggood-sy1edi don’t think it was discovered in america which explains why

[@nayR5]

Basically all of sweden is a model of the solar system. Avicii Arena in Stockholm represents the sun. And various stellar objects are scattered around the country.

[@BiasOfficialChannel]

Ok

[@Murderbot2000]

It’s amazing to consider that the force of gravity from the sun, is exerted over that entire distance.

[@_FirstLast_]

It all became much easier for me to understand when I realized gravity isn't just the force holding Pluto onto the sun 6 billion km away, but rather it's the force between every atom in the the universe pulling on every other atom in the universe, and the strength of that interaction decreases with distance. Some areas of space have a higher concentration of atoms and some areas have less concentration. Dense concentrations become stars and planets, and less dense areas become the "space" between "everything else, or normal objects". Then it sort of makes more sense to why each planet keeps going around the Sun in orbits, because there's virtually no other clumps of atoms anywhere else for them to interact with for trillions of miles in any direction. That's why Pluto, only 2,000 km across keeps orbiting the sun that's 9,000,000,000,000 km away! Amazing stuff. This helped me to understand that our moon IS pulled towards the Sun by gravity, it is also pulled towards Mercury, Venus, Earth, all objects in the asteroid belt, and all the way down to Pluto. However, it's SO much closer to Earth than any of those other objects that the earth's gravity pull is _stronger_ than ALL those other forces combined, so that's where the Moon stays. It orbits Earth while always being pulled in every other direction at the same time, just not strong enough to pull it out of orbit (in the near future). The Moon is moving away from us very very slowly, and will eventually cease to orbit our planet entirely. Any "stable orbit" is only ever stable in the relative sense. Eventually all orbits collapse or escape if you run the clock long enough...it's one of the beautiful dances of the Cosmos. It also means, that from a mathematical point of view, that me and you standing on the Earth are adding to the atoms that make the Earth...in a sense we _are_ part of the planet when you consider the gravitational pull of all the atoms in this specific area of space as it interacts with every other atom that _isn't_ part of the Earth.

[@robmiller7201]

Now look at our solar system to the galactic center.

[@Yora21]

Electromagnetism is very strong, but only over very short distances. Gravity is very weak, but over insanely long distances.

[@OnTheRailwayOfficial]

​@robmiller7201 even on the 1:1,000,000,000 scale I think that would be much longer than the 1:1 scale of the sun to pluto

[@AXELVISSERS]

​@@_FirstLast_ ah

[@Wertsir]

I built a 1:1 scale model of the solar system, but for some reason almost nobody ever visits it and when they do they always start from earth. Its odd.

[@wstraughn9507]

I'm game, I want to go! Just waiting on starship for transport

[@gustavfant8047]

I don't think you are God 😅

[@TheDrInkduff]

This is awesome, definitely going to have to check this out next time I'm in the area! I think you might need to double check your cm->mm conversions though :P ( 5:34 )

[@isaiahayers1550]

Whoops. Even in metric, mistakes can be made.

[@pjotrtje0NL]

2:27 actually, our moon is, scientifically speaking, so big compared to the ‘motherplanet’, that they are a double planet - the combination of the moon and Earth rotate around a point under the Earth’s surface, but not the core.

[@ghillghamesh9753]

I have't words to express admiration! That the coolest thing I saw recently

[@wa1w511]

I watched this whole video for Pluto, and you delivered....best video ever.

[@kilroy987]

Saturn is 121k km in diameter, not 121 million km. That would be pretty big. That would very likely make Saturn the center of the solar system.

[@klatikw]

The fact that próxima centauri is right beside because the distance is “around the globe” is such a genius detail

[@licencetoswill]

2.3mm for pluto, i bet you're kicking yourself. great vid stef

[@BiasOfficialChannel]

I was like wtf is he saying right now! 😂

[@paulpisters668]

This is incredibly educational and beautiful at the same time. Love it.

[@EdwardsGrant]

I'm glad he has a sense of humor. I absolutely LOVE Uranus jokes, and will never tire of them.

[@junothejupiterorbiter1035]

This is now on my places to visit

[@StefanDrury]

Great to hear, this is exactly why I wanted to make this video. Enjoy.

[@junothejupiterorbiter1035]

@@StefanDrury I certainly will, as a space nerd lol

[@SkipToTheRainbow]

We made a same scale solar system with my daughter when she was younger with cardboard, papeir mâché and modeling clay. It was a great way to learn about it. I hadn't realised before doing it quite how closely packed the inner planets were when we could just stroll over to them - but we had to hop in the car and drive across the valley to place the outer planets

[@iowa_don]

Yay Pluto!! Always in our hearts!

[@parqld]

Great vid. Things have changed. Since I lived in Melbourne. What a great thing to see. Oh and 4:17…..subtle😉

[@davidswanson5669]

So glad someone else noticed the casual joke inserted. He knew what he was doing.

[@parqld]

🤣🤣@@davidswanson5669

[@Firstsight666]

I came here to say this lol, the way he scratched his butt purposely as well 😂

[@extraterrestrial7424]

That is such a brilliant idea of art to install at a town bike trail! It left even me who knew the immensity of space scale very well still in awe.

[@alexander0the0gray]

I hope you see a viewing spike from Lateral podcast viewers finding your video!

[@NikosWings]

You are a space geek, I love it. I knew I liked you for something we have in common, now I know what it is… lol By the way Melbourne is beautiful. Can’t wait to make it there.

[@sheelanair3712]

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[@kushalraj]

Love the new format/types of videos that aren’t about aviation as much as the aviation. Hope you keep enjoying these videos as much as I do so we get more of them 😃 Note: still watching the video but I’m sure it’s gonna be nice!

[@StefanDrury]

Thank you, yeah I really enjoy keeping the content varied. Plus I figured a lot of aviation lovers are also into science so wanted to share this with everyone.

[@Janky2912]

That is pretty cool, never thought there'd be anything in Australia that I'd be even remotely interested in. Thanks for the video

[@sptownsend999]

This is so cool! "Thanks for the memories . . ." of 7th Grade Science, when we made one of these Solar System models with equal size _and_ distance. I think we did a scale of 1:10,000,000,000 since our schoolyard was barely half a kilometer from the road to the farthest corner. That experience put things into perspective almost as well as Monty Python's Galaxy Song . . .

[@lectroman]

There's a mistake at 5:45. You have Earth and Venus mixed up.

[@065Tim]

Every country should have this.

[@rinzler9775]

This is cool - somebody should do a scale model using airports that roughly match the distances choosing a scale that fits nicely.

[@SeriousPOV]

Great Idea

[@mccloysong]

I think Venus is supposed to be 2:46 our sister planet. I love Melbourne ("Melbin") but didn't know about this great attraction. Thanks for the tour.

[@dosmundos3830]

Mars is Earth's sister planet, Venus is considered our twin. Venus is the same size as Earth and that's where the similarities end, Mars shares its geographical composition with Earth. Of all the planets in the solar system, Mars is the most Earth-like in terms of its water patterns. Mars has polar ice caps that grow and recede with the seasons and has evidence of water channels similar to those on Earth today. Terrain: Mars is mostly ancient, cratered highlands.

[@mccloysong]

@@dosmundos3830 Good points. And Mars is quite small, only about twice the size of our moon. I wonder if that's why its core eventually died , losing its magnetic field which allowed solar winds to strip away its atmosphere

[@Azeltix]

I’m so glad Pluto is there. It’s crazy though that we’ve been able to see such a small planet so far !

[@aarondavis8943]

I search "Solar System scale model" and was surprised to find this one in my home town.

[@annsidbrant7616]

Really really nice! The model is pretty awesome, and your presentation of if is fine, too. But I wish you had included the sizes of the models of Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune!

[@notjustanother3191]

They put respect on Pluto's name

[@snowbearer]

Pluto was 23mm you say..? Anyway, fun video once again! Thanks and stay awesome!

[@DazzaJay]

Yeah, I think he forgot to move the .

[@notahotshot]

So much for metric being easier. 😏

[@snowbearer]

@@notahotshot well 0,0906 inches for you Americans.

[@0NeeN0]

@@notahotshot It is, you just move 10^+/-1 while meter is 10^0, dm is 10^-1, cm 10^-2 and mm 10^-3 which translates to 10mm being 1dm, 10 dm being m so if you go down from let's say 2 meters and want to get mm you move "0" 3 times which gives you 2000mm. If you convert the lower unit you move "0" to the right, while converting to lower unit you move "," to the left.

[@0NeeN0]

and going up km 10^3, Mm 10^6, Gm 10^9 Tm 10^12 (there is also 10^1 which is dam [decameter] and 10^2 hm [hectometer] but these aren't used even in Physics and Math at high level until you're going for PhD but it's also uncommon)

[@UTubeISphere]

Thanks for sharing! There's something similar in Passau in southern Germany (three-river city of DanubeInn and Ilz bordering Austria), exactly the same length with 5.194 km long. Started as a multi-school project in 2007, opened in July 2011. Search terms: Passauer Planetenpfad, or for a YT video > Passauer-Planeten-Pfad

[@aozumi_lau]

I remember going to melbourne last year and seeing this scale model of the solar system while visitng st kilda, thanks for bringing back memories!

[@THE.EXTREMINE.]

3:17 “Jupiter, named after the roman god… Jupiter” lol💀

[@fleisbester612]

Every planet in the solar system is named after roman gods.

[@steveedmond9362]

​@@fleisbester612Earth though 🤷‍♂️

[@fleisbester612]

@@steveedmond9362 Terra

[@tomato8933]

​@@steveedmond9362Same thing

[@MafiaAzuI]

@@fleisbester612 Not Uranus lol

[@no_handle_required]

👍🏻 For including Pluto

[@snarflatful]

Kudos to Melbourne for constructing this.

[@spiro5327]

Nice change of scenery Stef. Getting to all these planets via conventional means using some form of thrust/propulsion would be virtually impossible. This is why i think the best way to travel through space is via the manipulation of gravity. Gravity waves, bending space and time. Thanks mate

[@Nikioko]

You can find these Solar System educational paths at a lot of places in the world. The scale is normally 1 :10⁹. One of them is in Bonn, along the left bank of the Rhine. Another one is in Switzerland, Saint-Luc.

[@janfertan5414]

Marburg also has one

[@dshodaw]

That's funny, Mars is my second fav after Pluto for being so accessible and hospitable compared to the others (and pluto for it's size and isolation)

[@raji2583]

05:35 Pluto 0.23 cm diameter which is 2.3mm

[@gabsterrivera5674]

4:15 I see what you did there Edit: I personally think Mars is my second most interesting planet as it is the only closest planet that has potential to still inhabit life next to Earth due to its geological evidences for presence of water if not for its bad normal temperature

[@TheGhostFart]

temperatures are the least of your worries when theres little to no magnetic sphere

[@noideawhoiam3855]

@@TheGhostFartand a very thin atmosphere

[@haiperbus]

gas giant moons are far more interesting imo

[@dosmundos3830]

@@haiperbus -200 degees is more interesting than normal daytime temps? off you go lol

[@galaxyceiling4137]

Best solar system size & distance comparison video that I’ve seen 😊

[@Hayden_TGM]

3:50 that pun there! Spot on!

[@A77uros]

There is a Solar System model with same scale also here in Helsinki, Finland. It's very educational to go through model to realize that planets are in millimeters or centimeters but distances in hundreds of meters or kilometers. Space is really empty. 🤔 Looks like Melbourne's model is better than Finnish version while it's on coastline. Here Sun is on a top of a hill and planets are around the city. This unfortunately means that you can't see Sun from Uranus. 😃

[@nicholasleaf3646]

Actually, only Saturn is out of the line, because Tali's Golf course, but rest are more or less in line. You can see Sun from all planets, it may take binoculars, clear day and no leaves on trees.

[@lasserasinen7174]

Neptune is also off to the side (on the opposite shore of Laajalahti bay from Uranus). But it makes for a nice bike trip.

[@lasserasinen7174]

Also I think Neptune serves as the counter-example to "you can see the Sun from all the planets". Had a look with Street View; you can just about see the top of the Digia building which is about 100 m from sea level, and the Sun model is a bit over 50 m.

[@N8thegr8-909]

3:42 neptune is MY favorite planet, fav moon is titan, fav dwarf is haumea.

[@grendelmor2990]

A correction of sorts. Our moon actually has a name, as does our sun. The moon is Luna, hence the term Lunar, like a lunar landscape. The sun is Sol. This is where we get the phrase Solar Energy.

[@JonIceInternational]

Our sun does not have an official name according to the International Astronomical Union. And according to them, "Moon" is the official name of our natural satellite in English. Also Sol and Luna are not used in English for official scientific writings. I agree that Sol and Luna could be used as official, since we do use terms as lunar and solar, but that is not the case yet.

[@barrykochverts4149]

Great Idea! These should be everywhere!

[@Hemstrought]

4:37 How big is that bird poo next to Neptune?

[@fromnorway643]

Bird poo? I thought it was Neptune's biggest moon, Triton! 😄

[@squishy5309]

Like 5 earths big?

[@wellantx9050]

There is also a scaled replica of the solar system in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada. Where you walk in the forest with some amazing spots to look at the St-Lawrence River. Truly amazing

[@hesleyt]

Amazing the idea of a scale model of our solar system in a park! Beautiful! Thanks. I'm just on the other side of the planet, in Brazil.

[@toolebukk]

.23 cm = 2.3 mm, not 23 mm 👍 aside from that, good video 😂

[@infidelcastro5129]

The little Solar System members matter too, and equally, the little details matter too 😊❤

[@TobiasSample]

2:51 I thought Venus was the sister planet? Man, Venus, so similar to Earth and yet so different

[@Ajajambo]

Venus is Earth evil twin

[@dosmundos3830]

Mars is more similar to Earth than Venus, Venus is merely of the same size.

[@shatner99]

Good luck for the audition next month. Finally we get a proper mini-series about Geldof.

[@marsgal42]

I’ve seen Proxima Centauri, a faint star in a very busy Milky Way field. It’s not coincidence that Earth’s circumference is so close to 40,000 km: the original definition of the meter was 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole via Paris. My first view of the Eta Carinae region was from St. Kilda Beach. 🙂

[@robmiller7201]

The Earth is wider horizontally at the Equator than vertically through the poles. It took good math to calculate the first meter.

[@S00rabh]

@2:40 My least fav plant is URanus.

[@raymorley8241]

Looks like a Pigeon found Neptune. Great video. Thanks

[@Orikix]

4:06Ur anu…. Uraanus😂

[@yavuzsensei6458]

2:19 It's Luna That's because you say "Lunar eclipse" not "Moonar eclipse"

[@fromnorway643]

The Norwegian word for that is "måneformørkelse".

[@ragingfirefrog]

Luna just means Moon in Spanish.

[@yavuzsensei6458]

@@ragingfirefrog No, it's in Latin. Like most scientific names.

[@GuizinPE81]

Lua e Lunar

[@jdsguam]

Very Cool of Melbourne to have this - outstanding!

[@mechadense]

2:58 - And as usual Ceres gets skipped 😢

[@Someone-zn4dh]

He is hiding somewhere at the belt

[@bigbluerenewable8102]

This is such a cool idea, money well spent.

[@Pantheos]

There's something similar on the North Sea island of Norderney, which I loved as a child!

[@genghisdingus]

This puts into perspective how hard it would be to find the hypothesized 9th planet in our solar system. It's like trying to see a pea sized object 59 to 118kms away.

[@saldana1975]

yay i'm so glad they have Pluto on there :)

[@Uberpingvin]

"Dull" seems like the perfect description of a planet to colonize though right? Nice video

[@corto7820]

There's Solar system in Zagreb in Croatia. Starting from 1971 when they placed the Sun ("Grounded Sun") as an installation. Afterward they added Planets. There are more than 70 Solar Systems all over the World and one in Zagreb is second oldest (right after Hagen in Germany, 1959).The system is at scale 1:680 000 000. Earth's model is about 1.9 cm (0.75 in) in diameter and is 225 m distance from the Sun's model, while Pluto's model is 7.7 km away from it.

[@John.Crowther]

Excellent , hope to see it myself one day !

[@dukecity7688]

Very cool. Of course as soon as i finished watching this i looked up the model in Sweden and other places. So much to see. Thank you for sharing this. Happy to see the little gem Pluto included.

[@havefunoutthere6378]

They really should have this in the U.S somewhere, or more accurately, EVERYWHERE.

[@ItzCryzton]

the proxima centauri one is just crazy and genius!