As a side note, I noted in the comments:
Heck people don't get the scale between the Earth and the Moon. The distance is so great that all the other planets of our solar system could fit in between the Earth and the Moon, while at aphelion anyhow, and have a bit of room to spare. If you arrange the planets pole to pole, then you can do it during the average distance of the moon's orbit. You can't pull the trick off while in perigee though as it gets about 27 kilometers too close, though this sort of shows the scale of the orbital eccentricity.

A bit late to *promote, but why not? It's still prime time for some.

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 6:59pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter RFlagg.

Very cool.

Totally right about it being difficult to find illustrations of the true scale of the planets, etc.

*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 7:11pm PDT - promote requested by lucky760.

a few (perhaps dumb) observations:

1. good thing Pluto is no longer a planet
2. This video would've benefited from being shot in 4K
3. Was a nice touch to show the orbit of Uranus as a giant fart cloud

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Riding-Light-A-journey-of-a-photon-through-our-solar-system

Riding Light: A journey of a photon through our solar system has been added as a related post - related requested by jimnms.

*learn - good stuff!

Adding video to channels (Learn) - requested by Zawash.

Unrelated: Look up "The L-Curve" for a "to-scale" comparison of incomes and wealth comparison between people in the USA, using a football field as medium for comparison.

Side note: if they wanted to get to the nearest star, (Proximus Centauri), they'd have to drive roughly just over 49700km, (30800+ miles).

Cannot upvote... no pluto ;_; I grew up knowing pluto as the 9th. I still stand by it today. No pluto, no vote.

Most of us have came to this conclusion when we realized I couldn't spot the other planets when we looked up in the sky at night. Only a troglodyte would assume that the popular solar system depictions are up to scale. The one thing that stuck with me as a child is when I was told that there are billions of suns in our sky. We just call them stars. That blew my mind.

Cool video nonetheless.

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