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Old 02-27-2019, 12:47 AM
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Yep...

Years ago I did some math and made a scale model of the solar system based on a 12 inch schoolroom globe for the Earth. It's worth noting that the space shuttle, at that scale, never flew (or could fly) more than a little less than 1/2 inch away from that typical 12 inch globe. The furthest humans have ever been is 31 feet away to the Moon, which would be about a 4 inch ball... (softball, roughly). At that scale, Pluto is about 220 miles away. The Sun is only 2.2 miles away.

If we added Proxima Centauri to our model, it would be located ON THE PLANET MARS, in this same scale-- over 36 MILLION miles away...

Later! OL J R
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