© Wylie Overstreet / VimeoSolar System modeled to scale in Nevada desert
"There is literally not an image that adequately shows you what it actually looks like from out there [space]," Overstreet noted.
The only way to create an authentic model to scale was to build one themselves, the two friends decided.
When they arrived at the dry lake bed in Black Rock desert, they gave themselves only 36 hours to create a model, spiced up with the planets' orbits animated at night through lights. The idea was to create a time-lapse to show how big the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Mars really are.
© Wylie Overstreet / Vimeo
The real challenge was to capture Earth from the view of an astronaut. And they actually did it!
"That's what I really wanted to try and capture. We are on a marble floating in the middle of nothing. When you sort of come face to face with that, it's staggering," Overstreet wrapped up.
Reader Comments
I can't wait for this to show up in science books as proof that space exists.
They can put it right next to NASA's paintings.
But seriously, folks -- do your own experiments and use your own observations. Nothing else matters.
Stop believing what NASA tells you -- I know, I know, a secretive organization filled with Nazis and Freemasons wouldn't lie to you, ever.
Stop regurgitating what our oppressors want you to believe, force you to believe -- I know, I know, people smarter than you (they have TV shows!) tell you that you are stupid if you even question them, because science is beyond questioning, it's about obeying and automatically accepting what long-dead Jesuits and Freemasons "proved' about the world through their mathematical equations.
They only want to diminish the divine spark within you, they want you to feel meaningless, worthless, naught but a speck of dust from a long-dead star.
You are more than that…unless you let them diminish you.
As Jeranism says - Open your mind, there's truth inside.
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"... the Earth diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble ... seeing this has to change a man"
Yup, going from believing a flat Earth created by God with your soul at the centre of the universe to believing you are an insignificant piece of biomass on a isolated rock definitely HAS changed man
For the better or just in accordance with our slave master desires?
Should be in all schools - scaled down, but accurate - along with large models of DNA, RNA and other important molecules: Water, fat cell, etc..
What is it about the flat earthers you have issue with.
Someone has already told you how it is.
Its a great big,red ball
Remember.....
The some moves 7000 Million KM per year (7,253 MKM / Year assuming 0.828 MKM/H)
Neptune starts of the year 4,498 MKM away from the Sun
It takes 165 years to perform one perfect circle around the Sun
During that time the Sun would have moved 1,155,000 MKM from where it started ... over 1 Trillion KMs away
From a certain perspective our earth is traveling at hundreds of millions of miles per hour. from a certain perspective I am traveling at insane speed just sitting in my chair. So what. Why is it so hard to understand that planets orbit a sun?
Because there's too many sheeple who willingly believe everything placed in front of them,even when their senses say otherwise.
The special you're confused with doesn't lead to elitism,it leads to understanding,such as-
"There's enough for everyones need,but not nearly enough for everyones greed"
You have our current paradigm confused with goodness.
Universe,we've all seen it,its called corel draw.
Your writing exposes the fact that you should be the very last one offering your opinion on spirituality.
You have none.
You're a speck of dust lost in the wind.
As above, so below. Is the solar system so different from an atom?
We only have the same programmers and their findings,based upon who financed the research to base any opinion on.
Its like the ball earth,we only have someone elses photos to go on.
Can't say I've ever seen an atom personally,have you ?