"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first
create the universe"
- Carl Sagen
I love this model of the planets. Notice the bottom picture how all the sizes of the planets in our solar system compare to the size of the sun.
In the middle picture you get another stark comparison of how the solid matter planets like earth are dwarfed in size to that of the gas giants.
It's amazing really to think how many things had to come together for the earth to exist. A spiraling black hole in the center of the galaxy to cause the orbit of large planetary masses and stellar debris. The massive size of Jupiter to deflect most of the stellar debris from Earth, the other once planet colliding into earth to create our moon and a stable orbit around the sun. The heavy metals such as Iron collecting together along with the chemical elements of water creating a rich mixture rarely found elsewhere in the universe so far. And all these materials gathering in just the right distance from the sun to allow life to flourish.
Also interesting is how our planet is rich in Iron and so are we. It's in our blood, it's why it's the color red and smells the way it does. It's amazing to think about it and make the connections.
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image downloaded from the interwebs. I did not create this model.
bennendak, Los Cardinalos, ttfnrob, and 103 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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fschroiff 86 months ago | reply
hi there! please add this to the Trip to Pluto pool.
Thanks!
candi4urcum [deleted] 83 months ago | reply
This is a great way to visualize the size of the planets. How wonderful!
aid85 78 months ago | reply
atoms on a rock
coolspace9 77 months ago | reply
wow
Intergalactic Hussy [deleted] 72 months ago | reply
Well done!!
Jazmin Million 69 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called *****CLIMATE CHANGE*****, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group, as well as become a valid group member!
Have a good week, please think green!
I am Batman! 68 months ago | reply
God created the heavens and the earth, not coincidence!
Kenny Shackleford 68 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The Universe, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Rominho/ Romulo Fasanaro Filho 67 months ago | reply
Oi! Sou administrador de um grupo chamado Moon and Planets, e nós adoraríamos ter a sua foto adicionada ao grupo.
Rominho/ Romulo Fasanaro Filho 67 months ago | reply
Thanks for your contribution and welcome to the group...
Plentiful Dawn 66 months ago | reply
Planets in the solar system can have familiarity.
It is a remarkable piece of work!
Luis Argüelles 64 months ago | reply
Precioso.
leticia.htinha7 47 months ago | reply
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S.G. Washington 45 months ago | reply
Nice perspective.
raz1234 40 months ago | reply
Only a fool can deny God's existence when we have evidence of His awesome creations.
raz1234 40 months ago | reply
How can one deny credit to the Creator of such awesome work!
Electric-Eye 39 months ago | reply
Sagan, not Sagen.
And note that the probability of anything occurring that actually has happened is 1.
For example, in order for you to have been born, having the features you have your parents had to meet. For them to have met their parents had to have met. And so on. And the same for your dog, and for the flea on his back.
None of this is to say that the Earth, and life on it is not wonderful, but that we aren't understanding our place in the universe if we aren't even asking the right questions about it.
fschroiff 39 months ago | reply
Thank you for trying to talk some sense into the fundamentalists.
MAGLPM 26 months ago | reply
hahahaha very nice !!!
juandrobfreezer 19 months ago | reply
I love this.