If BABBling was open, I'd put this here, but this is astronomy-related, no doubt. I found this amusing, and if you scroll down and look at the pictures, you will see the Solar System Facts and how they calculated where to put the planets. So did they do it right?

Broken Uranus :-(

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Well, I thought it was at least a fun way to learn about our solar system...sort of like the guy who lays out relative distances between the planets outside for his classes (thought I had that link, can't find it). A group of architects, lawyers, and other professionals use to have a serious Scavenger Hunt in my city--they'd have to obtain anything from a ticket to a past baseball game to some cultural object or another, obscure or otherwise. I like stuff like that, or maybe I'm just amused in warped ways. :-?

You could experience magnetism, too. :P

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so, in this race, do you need to visit all of the planets to get a "gravity boost" to make it to the next one?

Hey! I was the kid that did that before school in the sixth grade for my earth-science class... No one else would wake up at 6 am and volunteer...

Sounds cool... I wish they would have one in Detroit...

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How about one across an entire nation?

ooooh... even better! It'd be like "The Amasing Space-Race."

Notice how I mock mainstream reality shows.

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The solar system in scale amazes me. I like to think of the Sun as having 1,4 m diameter (1mm = 1,000 km). Pluto would be 6 km far from the Sun(*). Nice for a walk.

(*) A thing that surprises many is that when you get to Uranus you´re still in the middle of the journey.

Some other projects: link

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Odd, I was just thinking of that last night, wondering to what extent museums do that (see your link). I was thinking about some "solar system amusement park," and wondering how to do it. Lol. It may seem goofy, but the idea was fun to think about. Thanks for that link, Argos. We could use one of these Science Centers.

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I posted this in BABBling, but it reminded me of what you said above:
http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/vi...=493713#493713

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Weird, I don't know why the Telegraph dredged this up from January, but it was just brought to my attention, and appears to wildly (and perhaps dangerously) contradict the California Science Center's goals. See here for what I mean, though I don't know to what extent discussion of it would be disallowed by the FAQ. Stuff like this makes my blood boil, however, and when I see neat things, like the above solar system projects, being done to help promote learning about science, and our universe, I see things like this as backward steps--no LEAPS!

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