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For any scifi writers trying to get a visual of how big some of our planets are compared to the moon, check out this video. I thought it was fun.
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What philocinemas said. I just clicked on it and saw that the video is about the year of the rabbit, not about the moon and planets.
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I got a very informative video on how to make glass eyeballs for eye-loss victims. I watched for a minute or two, trying to figure out how the planets fitted in - that would have been one big eye socket. Posts: 2003 | Registered: Jul 2008
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I've changed the title, based on your "suggestion," Wordcaster, but I'm still a little nervous about keeping the link (or even this topic) around, because there's no telling what video will be there when someone follows the link.
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I saw a similar video with different stars. It started with the Sun and then continued to ever larger stars found. The biggest star was all over the screen with the Sun as a tiny dot in the corner.
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That's pretty neat, although I wish they'd shown a few more of the planets.
I've got a story where the world is circling a gas giant, so it's a big part of the sky a lot of the time. Interesting to get perspectives on those sort of astronomical oddities.
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There's a section of Carl Sagan's Cosmos that starts with something on Earth and zooms out until the whole of the known universe is visible.
Before that, in Clarke's The Lost Worlds of 2001, there's a description of a movie, "Man is the Measure of All Things," which starts out with Da Vinci's classic drawing of a man, and leaps out an order of magnitude several times, until it reaches the ends of the universe. I don't think it was ever filmed---the book consisted of what was cut from the novel of "2001,"---but it seemed to me at the time that the scene in Cosmos was inspired by it...
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I love Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Has anyone heard the Autotune song with Carl Sagan called "The Sky Calls to us"?
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Just had a thought while I was watching an episode of Stargate.
If planets are all different sizes (not even close to earth) and same thing with stars, wouldn't aliens be completely different sizes too?
Perhaps it wouldn't make for great science fiction if Earth got attacked by aliens who left footprints as big as the Great Lakes. I am reminded of universes like Star Wars and Stargate where nearly every species they come across is somewhat related in size to humans instead of a futuristic Gulliver's Travels or Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
And then, gravity would be completely different on each planet in a given universe. I'm waiting for the episode of Stargate where they walk through and are knocked to the ground, unable to stand up under their own weight.
Sorry for my random drivel. Maybe I should save it for the next Star Trek convention (do they still have those?).
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Well, the whole concept of Stargate is that the universe was seeded by aliens, the Goa'uld, and those people the SG-1 team meet are all Human ancestors. That's why the planets and people are relatively similar. Works for the TV show/movie too.
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