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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a DISPLAY THAT SUPPORTS THE PLANETS WITH NO CROPPING - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | + | This comic supposedly shows what each planet would look like at 1:1 scale, which would mean at real size. However, because a minuscule portion of each planet is visible on the page at that scale, it becomes comically useless at distinguishing the size or relative size of each planet, and each planet is just a differently textured straight line. To understand the diagram, imagine you are sitting a tremendous distance away from the solar system, and you have a camera with an extremely supremely highly zooming telephoto lens. Then all eight planets happen to line up. You manage to snap this incredible image of a teeny tiny spot of the sky, which simultaneously manages to include the very edges of all the planets as well as some of the space behind them all. Space is the black polygon in the center. The reason why each planet is so smooth is because it's such a small area: you're only seeing a couple of square inches of the surface of each of the planets. | |
− | + | The title text remarks that it is hard to find a display that supports a version of the image without cropping. This is because a true 1:1 scale image showing each of the planets would be ridiculously large[https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1164/how-big-is-the-solar-system/], larger than any monitor or display currently available on Earth (since it would be much larger than Earth, in fact it would would have to be larger than Jupiter, to depict 1:1). | |
− | The | + | ==Transcript== |
+ | {{incomplete transcript|The main panel itself is missing explanation. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
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:[A frame with a central area of black 'space', bounded at various intersecting angles by eight 'straight lines' representing planetary surfaces, originating from various out-of-frame angles of 'down' and the white of some bodies obscuring some part of the others.] | :[A frame with a central area of black 'space', bounded at various intersecting angles by eight 'straight lines' representing planetary surfaces, originating from various out-of-frame angles of 'down' and the white of some bodies obscuring some part of the others.] | ||
:[There are labels indicating which line represents each planet.] | :[There are labels indicating which line represents each planet.] | ||
:[The four gas-giants' lines are simply drawn, near straight and featureless.] | :[The four gas-giants' lines are simply drawn, near straight and featureless.] | ||
:[The lines for the rocky inner-planets have variations to them, stereotypical of some part of their surface.] | :[The lines for the rocky inner-planets have variations to them, stereotypical of some part of their surface.] | ||
− | :[The "Earth" line ('down' being out the top of the frame) has a profile indicating various small-scale vegetation and also features the white | + | :[The "Earth" line ('down' being out the top of the frame) has a profile indicating various small-scale vegetation and also features the white sillouette of an ant that may be of a realistic size for your display.] |
:[Caption below the panel:] | :[Caption below the panel:] | ||
:The solar system's planets at 1:1 scale | :The solar system's planets at 1:1 scale |