Each pixel represents 100 miles.
Look at its size compared to Earth and dare say
"There is an energy shortage"!
It is now time to build automated solar energy factories so as to incourage
the civilization of Sol to stop global warming
and to grow unlimited beyond the confines of Earth.
Planets to Scale
Mercury is 3,032 miles in diameter,
~36 million miles from the sun.
Known in Greece as Hermes,
was related to quick thinking, magic, illusion, and trickery.
Being so close to the sun, it coincidincally proved
classical newtonian physics unfit
for tracking its whereabouts (relativity to the rescue)!
Venus, 7,521 miles in diameter,
about 67 million from the sun.
Venus is our evil twin 'sis tempting us
to follow her into a run away greenhouse!
Earth is ~8,000 mi dia,
93 million miles from the Sun
which is 865,000 miles in diameter. Pictured here, our dynamic home is 80 pixels across and orbits 930,000 pixels away,
at screen resolution of ~84 pixels per inch,
the 8 foot, 8 inch sun would be just over 3 football fields away.
We are almost exactly 500 light seconds away.
The Moon being 400 times smaller in dia than the sun,
yet 400 times closer,
they both appear the same size.
Mars is 4,222 miles in diameter
and about 142 million from the sun.
It's best not to waste money
on trying to colonize it yet...
That money needs to be used
for the development of the unlimited energy
we need to sustain ourselves here on Earth first...
(Then it would be a piece of cake to colonize)!
All the dots for the "i" and the "periods"
here are the asteroids.
It was once believed that humanity
would harvest them for their well being
(after becoming a true Space Based Race).
The one with our name on it
will simply be mined
for its quadrillions of $$$ worth of resources!
However, The robot race (once initiated)
will expontiate ~1,000,000,000 faster than us
and will beat us to the punch...
Nevertheless, they may create...
EARTHRING!
an Earth like habitat by assembling "nanobots" into a 2.2 million mile ring that orbits in L5, exactly once per 24 hours giving its inhabitants 1 G
and many thousands of times the space we have on Earth, slanted at 23 degrees with eliptical walls
containing an exact replication of Earths atmosphere
gleened from the rich resources of the remaining asteroids,
some of the outer moons
and even some of the atmosphere of the gas giants themselves.
It will use all the forces
(including solar to a small degree)
to overcome gravitational and radiation disturbances.
Though billions of times smarter than us,
the robotic self expontiating race does not
have to save us from ourselves.
If such a robotic race initiates,
they will develop the ability to travel time
within mere days or seconds after conception.
Because we don't already observe them,
there are a few possibilities to consider.
It's against their law to go back in time
(it appears that faster than lightspeed would entail backwards time travel).
Possibly, we destroyed ourselves before creating
advanced artificial intelligence (AI),
however, since such robotic race would colonize
the entire universe at close to or far beyond light speed,
this implies that ALL other possible civilizations (out there)
have not made it to developing AI
(and since such civilizations may have created AI
millions of years ago, or even themselves colonize
the universe, there should be a sign regardless of any time travel abilities).
The least possible explanation
is that all biological life
prevents the development of the robotic race...
Perhaps, the most probable explanation is that we simply can't "see them".
Eventually, "they", like us, will evolve into robotic "bodies"
And then, into "quantum bodies"...
Which will travel faster than light and be, for all practical purposes, as invisable as spirits!
Or perhaps we are indeed alone
in the universe making this particular Solar System better
(and that our created robotic race is indeed
restricted from backwards time travel)!
88,846 miles in dia,
about 484,000,000 miles from the sun.
Being the largest planet, Jupiter's volume is equal to 1,317 Earths,
yet is only 318 times as heavy as it is composed mainly of hydrogen
(under such high pressures much of it is metallic).
Jupiter is 5.2 times as far from the sun as we (5.2AU).
It is also in a 5:2 orbital resenence with Saturn
(meaning it goes around the sun five times to Saturns two times)
Saturn is 74,898 miles across
and is 888,188,000 miles from the sun.
Its thousands of visable rings are accentuated
by a hexagon like pattern on its north pole
(Saturn is also the sixth planet).
Uranus is 31,763 miles across
and orbits slightly over twice as far from the sun
as Saturn at 1.783 billion miles from the sun.
Neptune, 30,778 miles in dia,
and about 2.8 billion from the sun.
3,674,000,000 miles to Pluto
~ 120 football feilds away (6.75mi, 11.14km) in this tiny scale model.
Surprizingly, this Oort cloud object
has an orbital campanion of its own (a moon called Charon).
In order from the sun, the nine planets are pictured to scale in size.
Actual distance from Sol to the Alpha Centari System in this tiny scale
would be like going around the world twice or about 1/4 of the way to the Moon
Our Galaxy would still span 25,000 times that!
