- Author
- JoshWorth.com
- Published
- Undated
- Kind
- Interactive scrolling visualization with narrated captions
- Original
- joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
- Subject
- Space and orbital simulation
What it is
The page is credited to JoshWorth.com. The reader scrolls across a map drawn at one pixel for the Moon. Captions appear as the planets pass. The page also has a unit switcher for km, miles and other units.
What it says
- The page is a scrolling solar system map where the Moon is one pixel.
- It says one stretch of the scroll equals about seven months of spaceship travel.
- It says driving at 75mi/hr would take over 500 years to reach that point.
- It says a print at 300 pixels per inch needs paper 475 feet wide.
- The page musings argue that most of the universe is empty space.
- It ends by saying 6,771 more maps like this come before anything else.
What evidence it gives
The page offers its own scaled map and unsourced figures such as travel times. It cites no studies. The reflections on emptiness are argument and humor.
Interests and limits
This is a personal project with no stated sources or author name beyond the site. The scrolling visuals and the unit switcher were not viewed, only the page text. The distances and times were not checked. The page states them as averages.