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shagieyesterday at 4:38 PM0 repliesview on HN

One of the neat things that I've stumbled across is https://thinkzone.wlonk.com/SS/SolarSystemModel.php

Make the model scale to be 10000000 (10 million). The sun is a chunky 139 meters in diameter. Earth is 15 km (9 miles) away. Pluto is 587 km (365 miles) away. The speed of light is 107 kph (67 mph).

Alpha Centauri is 4.1 million km (2.5 million miles) away... that is 10 times the earth moon distance.

Another comparison... Voyager 1 is moving at 30 light minutes per year. (Andromeda galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at 3.2 light hours per year)