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I believe Titan is about 794,000 miles from Saturn, and Mercury is about 35 million miles from the Sun. Yet in the beautiful Beyond Garden, the orbits of both appear to have about the same radius (in the image, Saturn is in the background, and Titan's orbit should be MUCH smaller)
rotund jacinth
same is true for almost all orbits and object sizes the model is not to scale, that wouldnt make any sense in comparison to the scale of the solar system
everything is presented in a way to give a rough idea on what the scale of most things are but its never close to accurate, you couldnt even see these for example if its was even trying to be accurate:
chrome dirge
So it was intentional? I know lunch mentioned on several occasions (in the Twitch livestreams) that the team was very careful about being scientifically accurate for most everything
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everything is presented in a way to give a rough idea on what the scale of most ...
One of the most amazing things about astronomy is the pure, sheer vastness of things in space. If we want to really awe people, demonstrate the true scale. 😁
rotund jacinth
yes, all factual statements in the best are hold to scrutiny and are always supposed to represent the current state of science. they said in mutliple livestreams though that they had to compromise on the scale of the solar system for it to make even sense to show
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ah, gotcha, thanks
rotund jacinth
One of the most amazing things about astronomy is the pure, sheer vastness of th...
the problem is that the scale is too insane to even comprehend for the human brain, take a look at this website that has the real scale for solar system objects: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
and you can literally scroll for hours
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wow! They need bookmarks!
The "light speed" animation is pretty amazing as well. Wow!
rotund jacinth
that wouldnt really give interested players any meaningful information, so thats why the scale of the solar system model is not to scale, what should be really close to accurate though is the relataion of the orbit speeds comparing to each other for example
rotund jacinth
The "light speed" animation is pretty amazing as well. Wow!
yeah, thats impressive