In “To Scale: The Solar System,” Alex Gorosh complains that all of the renderings of our solar system are far too close together. That even with the Earth shrunk to the size of a marble, to fit the entire solar system together to scale would still be a massive undertaking. So, with the help of fellow filmmaker Wylie Overstreet, he set out to prove his point in a seven-mile-wide stretch of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
With a Sun roughly a meter in diameter and an Earth the size of a small marble, the two filmmakers and a few friends created an eye-opening model of our infinitesimal scale in relation to all the other flying space rocks around us.
Neptune, the farthest planet from the Sun ever since the unholy extermination of Pluto’s planetary status, sat an astounding three-and-a-half miles away from the Sun at the end of creating their actual scale model of the solar system. They then used lights and their vehicles to drive the orbits of the entire Solar System which is shown via time-lapse in the short film.
If a person had never considered how small we actually are when compared to the rest of the universe, after watching the incredible short film they won’t be able to stop. So, go ahead and give the film a watch.
