Relative Size

1. koko
   September 22nd, 2008 at 9:24 am

   Did that require a video?

2. martin
   September 22nd, 2008 at 11:22 am

   I believe that Mars and Venus are in the wrong order in this video. I could be horribly wrong. Just going off what i remember from preschool here.

3. Orjan Morjan
   September 22nd, 2008 at 11:50 am

   Oops, how did Pluto get in there?

4. Tiago
   September 22nd, 2008 at 12:14 pm

   @Orjan, nobody said that they were comparing planets, but celestial bodies, and pluto is one, plus not even scientists agree on pluto, some of them want to bring pluto back to his previous planetary state.

   @martin, so is Saturn and Jupiter, but the radios they claim is clearly visible, being jupiter larger.

   @koko, were u required to comment?

5. Christophe
   September 22nd, 2008 at 1:24 pm

   I was wondering with a yawn where this was neat until... Sorry I doubted

6. Vijay
   September 22nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm

   Nice video

7. Some Canadian Skeptic
   September 22nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm

   Just to be a dork here, that image shown as Pluto is actually Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system (and one of the Jupiter moons).

8. DOJ
   September 22nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm

   @Tiago - i think the video is saying Saturn's rings have a greater diameter

   Some Canadian Skeptic, out nerding the nerds

9. ted
   September 22nd, 2008 at 6:34 pm

   Some people will turn anything into a video.

10. Terry
    September 22nd, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    Seems like more of a vehicle for the pseudo-creative, computer-generated "music" playing incessantly in the background. (A break beat with 3 digi loops.)

    I do agree with Koko. Interesting enough to keep my watching til the end, but not enough to replay.

11. Nicholas Dollak
    September 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    Re: Martin - Mars is smaller than Venus, which is slightly smaller than Earth. Mars is just a little larger than our Moon, so sci-fi movies showing people exploring Mars should portray them getting around much as we would on the Moon. (They never do, and this has often bugged me. Unless, of course, Mars has a much higher density to boost its gravitational field...)

12. Queequeg
    September 22nd, 2008 at 11:35 pm

    I like this one, more planets:

    gif:
    http://qqqqssss.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/20080210-1610.gif
    from:
    http://qqqqssss.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/earthsize/

13. fz
    September 23rd, 2008 at 1:08 am

    VY Canis Majoris is thought to be larger than VV Cephei. (Up to 2100 solar radii as opposed to Cephei, being as large as 1900 radii)

14. Justin
    September 23rd, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    DAMN! They just kept getting bigger and bigger! I wonder how many planets that biggest star would engulf if it was placed in our solar system where the Sun is.

15. Ali S.
    September 23rd, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    Wow. Nothing like the ending where you see that monster of a star. Yeesh! It was hard to fathom the size of that thing. It would literally blot out the sky and beyond if we were to see it for ourselves.

16. Anon
    September 24th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

    Ali, it wouldn't because it's a star. But it would be all we would see. Until we would not be able to see. =/

17. avist
    September 26th, 2008 at 2:19 am

    Wow. That's all I can say!

18. The Manticore
    October 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 am

    Uranus is pretty big...

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