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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

To demonstrate how mind boggling huge space actually is.

I like the demo where the guy puts a pea for the sun on the ground, a tiny dot for Earth and then drives out of state to put down a radish seed to display Proxima Centauri to scale. It shows those trillions of kilometers nicely.