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by dkersten 2414 days ago
> Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

I liked Neil deGrasse Tyson's description of how what we call space is still ridiculously close to our planet and how far away everything else actually is, using a standard classroom globe for scale: https://youtu.be/Tt0uV5d8tss?t=99

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I personally like this one where the scale of the solar system is demonstrated instead of described:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4524AAZdE

I loved that thank you
Thanks for that video. That is actually one of the more pragmatic, easy to visualize ways to explain the scale space operates at....