If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel — a tediously accurate scale model of the solar system

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

You scroll. And scroll. And scroll. Space is mostly nothing, and no diagram ever shows you that honestly — this one does. The text that pops up mid-void is the best part.

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potsherd

23 hours ago

this matches my experience almost exactly

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qwerty_clack23 hours ago

reading this on my lunch break and nodding like an idiot

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drywit23 hours ago

the last line got me

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drywit1 day ago

scrolled for five minutes, hit jupiter, took a break. relatable content for the photons honestly

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two_espressos23 hours ago

gentle pushback: it's more complicated than that, but the core point stands

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moodboard23 hours ago

not the take i expected to agree with today, and yet

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tabletop_tim23 hours ago

do you have a longer write-up anywhere? would read

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