http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00003238/ wrote:
Scale solar system presentation slide, version 2
The Planetary Society Blog
By Emily Lakdawalla, Oct. 31, 2011 <<Last month I posted a preliminary version of a slide I was working on for use in my public presentations, a slide that contains everything in the solar system bigger than 400 kilometers across, and invited comment. I've listened to all of your comments and corrections and come up with a second version. One of the most frequent comments was that the overlapping of the giant planets created an optical illusion, making people think that it was perspective that diminished the sizes of Uranus and Neptune, which made Saturn appear larger than Jupiter. I liked overlapping the giant planets for aesthetic reasons, but am trying a non-overlapping version in this new one. What do you think?
Credit: © 2011 Emily Lakdawalla, the Planetary Society. Images from NASA / JPL & JHUAPL missions, processed by Bjorn Jonsson, Mattias Malmer, Ted Stryk, & Gordan Ugarkovic.
TNO art by NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) >>
How many can you name without looking?
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How many can you name without looking?
Art Neuendorffer
Re: How many can you name without looking?
I can't name any without looking, I wouldn't be able to see them.
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alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk. — Garrison Keillor
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Re: How many can you name without looking?
You must feel the Force around you.bystander wrote:
I can't name any without looking, I wouldn't be able to see them.
Art Neuendorffer
Re: How many can you name without looking?
That usually happens after the "grog" and "tilt" effect wear off.neufer wrote:You must feel the force around you.
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neptunium
Re: How many can you name without looking?
Ummm...Just how many of what can we name without looking 
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Re: How many can you name without looking?
Well, ... that picture "contains everything in the solar system bigger than 400 kilometers across". So I'm guessing that we are to name as many of those objects as possible.
Rob
Rob
Re: How many can you name without looking?
Heck! That's easy!! They are all objects of this solar system that are bigger than 400 kilometers across.
:Edit: I was going to delete this stupid thing as soon as i read it posted, but the Owl posted right after me and the computer won't let me delete it. So just ignor the stupid thing
shudda done it better to begin with.
:Edit: I was going to delete this stupid thing as soon as i read it posted, but the Owl posted right after me and the computer won't let me delete it. So just ignor the stupid thing
shudda done it better to begin with.
Last edited by Beyond on Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:38 pm, edited 2 times in total.
To find the Truth, you must go Beyond.
Re: How many can you name without looking?
But without looking!rstevenson wrote:Well, ... that picture "contains everything in the solar system bigger than 400 kilometers across". So I'm guessing that we are to name as many of those objects as possible.
Rob
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Re: How many can you name without looking?
Perhaps if the "test" contained a series of close-up images of each object instead of one cram-packed image..
Re: How many can you name without looking?
This is great. The next time someone asks me why Pluto isn't a planet anymore, I will show them this picture and say, "If you can point out which one is Pluto, I'll let you call it a planet." If they figure out which one it is, then they're entitled. By the way, I couldn't name any of them without looking either...I peeked before I closed my eyes.