Guys, this video seriously touched me. Automatically on my UKposts´s Top 3 ever. Thank you, thank you, thank you. (from this perspective, my problems look ridiculously pathetic)

"This is it, its the end of the solar system" Pluto: *cries*

On that scale, if you wanted to put a beach ball to represent the nearest star you would still have to leave the earth.

In the Netherlands we have a few of these. We call them Melkwegpad of planetenpad. Some of these walks are 5km long and show the planets in their relative size. Awesome to do with kids!

My son wants to be an astronaut and we were discussing, during dinner, the scale of the Sun comparing to Earth. He used the pizza crumbs to do it 😂 after a while of him searching for other objects to represent the other planets, I said… let’s see if someone made a video about it on UKposts. And WOW, were we impressed. Congratulations for one of the most spectacular videos ever. Loved it. So well done. I just kept thinking the amount of pre and post production that it had ❤

"I don't have a job" *Laughs* *Slowly Falls Into Deppression*

"Why are you here?" "I don't have a job." - greatest answer ever!🤣😂🤣

The thing that staggers me the most is that since the replica sun and the real sun are the same size from the replica of Earth's orbit, that means that the view of the sun from the perspective of the other replica planet's orbits are accurate as well. For example if you guys made the same replica solar system but on Mars, the real sun over the Martain surface would match the replica sun from replica Mars' orbit.

A HUGE AMOUNT OF RESPECT to the entire team who voluntarily did this amazing solar system scale. As a space-time enthusiast, I could really feel the passion and efforts you guys put into this video.

Man, Ford has really stepped up their commercials.

Still showing this to my Physics students every year, and have been since 2016 when I found it. One of the best things I've ever come across to help them understand the scale and emptiness and size of our solar system. When they get this, then we start talking about our solar system being just a small part of our galaxy, and our galaxy being one of billions or trillions of galaxies, etc. etc. you see both the lightbulb go off and the understanding set in. One of my favorite days in class each year. Cheers.

“Everything that you’ve ever known, all behind your thumb” That concept blew my mind

This is amazing. From all of the astrophysics things I’ve watched, this has blown my mind the most. I can’t believe how small they are and yet somehow how large.

Guy; "and we've reached the edge of the solar system" Pluto: Am I a joke to you?

This isn't on trending? This is literally one of the most thought out, planned video's which took time and dedication to actually recreate and upload rather than just some shitty editing. Kudos to you all!

It is absolutely mind-boggling. The sheer scale of the emptiness around our vulnerable planet is humbling.

I am truly impressed and blown away by the immense effort they have invested in crafting this 7-minute video. Such an underrated channel.

This would be a great permanent installation, with little train tracks for the planets. It would feature in all of the documentaries!

"I have the world in my pocket somewhere"

This video never gets old. Always teaches us how big our Solar system is. ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Hats off to the people involved in creation of this masterpiece ❤

When you think about this universe, life, us, our existence and watch this video - it will literally give you goosebumps.

One of the greatest quotes in the history of man: Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. -- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

One of the most memorable days in my education was day 1 of my Geology 101 class at a community college in Texas. The professor attempted to create a similar scaled model of the Solar System with the class. She brought marbles, tennis balls, a basket ball, etc. to represent the planets (we didn’t have a model for the Sun but she told us how big it would be.) We went out a few blocks and I think we only made it to Mars before she told us how much farther we’d need to go if we want to make it to Pluto (which was still a planet back then!) It was the fascination of how small we are and how much there is to know in the Universe that made that day so memorable. That day I also reaffirmed my decision to major in Geophysics, which has become a big part of my career and of my life in general. I wish I remember that professor’s name, but always think of her, of how with a thoughtfully crafted lesson she became so influential in my life! I will be forever grateful to her and to all science teacher who often go unappreciated but who with their passion inspire our curiosity, imagination, and dreams! Thanks to you all! 🙏

Most impressive method of conveying the scale. Loved it and it looked like a great adventure to make. I think that it’s time to build on to what you’ve already given us with current technology. More angles on the original project. Maybe superimposing massive stars and zooming out to include Pluto, the Oort Cloud & even Proxima Centauri. Anything is possible now. Big thanks so far!

I had no idea of the relative scale of the sun and planets - this video should be compulsory for all schools! These guys need to be thanked by everyone for making it clear that no drawing we've ever seen shows our solar system properly to scale. I'm humbled by their work and by the realisation of how small we really are in our own solar system let alone the universe! Thank you.

This is the rarest kind of UKposts video. The kind where you come away thinking that you've just been given a gift.

This continues to be one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen

7 years and this is still a masterpiece.

"Everything you've ever known... All behind your thumb." -Jim Lovell Really puts things in perspective.

6:10 "Everything that you have ever known,... all behind your thumb." The way he delivers that line gives me chills. That hardcore perspective on just how small we are.

By far the most impressive model of the Solar System + the timelapse of lights is an amazing touch.

The fact that planets are that far but still orbits the sun is amazing

Everyone once in a while I come back to this video just to remind myself of the sheer volume of it all. I shall, someday, to return again.

I'll never get over the immensity of the Universe.

This is fantastic guys! I enjoyed watching this a couple of times. I am in awe about our universe and it’s size and you all brought this into perspective here on earth for us. Thank you.

I’ve watched this for a few years and every time it never ceases to amaze me

Welcome to another episode of random UKposts algorithms. But this one is the best of them all.

I'm a senior, and very little impresses me anymore. This impressed the hell out of me. You have given me a piece of knowledge I never had before...and even though I am 7 years late to the party...I just wanted to thank you so very, very much...that was a lovely gift you have given me!

I have done distance scale models of the solar system with my elementary students, but we could NEVER do planet size AND distance as you have! Thanks for a terrific video! Always mind-blowing to go beyond our little blue marble!

Around 30 years ago there was a show on either TLC or Discovery (back when they did educational shows) that did just this. I loved it. Just as I love this video. They also did their best to impart to the viewer not just the size and proportion of our solar system but the awesome beauty and how mind blowing this information is. I love honest to goodness science videos that are for the sake of science, education and expanding minds. You guys did a wonderful job. Keep it up if you can. This is a treasure.

Google 'If the moon were only 1 pixel'. It honestly blows my mind about how gigantic our solar system is... I can't even comprehend how small we are in this universe.

I still watch this like every week

Wow! Simply wow to the thought process and the way you guys have presented it in front of us. I feel sorry that it took me 7 years to come across this video. Right from that first statement to the last scene everything fits so well. I hope to wander in space one day!

This is absolutely incredible. Thank you for making this and sharing it with us.

Its incredible how far the suns gravitation pull goes.

"I have the world in my pocket"

Just sat with my 6 year old watching this after he was struggling to understand the scale of the solar system. One little Mind blown, awesome vid guys

I remember first being enthralled by the size of the universe watching Star Trek TNG as a kid. Theyre are traveling at insane, fantastical made-up speeds many times faster than the speed of light, and yet can only explore a tiny fraction of the galaxy.

Next: To Scale: THE ENTIRE VISIBLE UNIVERSE Like so they see

Just a fun fact, I calculated that at this scale (in the video), the entire length of the Milky Way Galaxy would be 1.18x10^9km, which is exactly 7.88 Astronomical Units. Which means that in the video, if that was the ACTUAL solar system, in that desert of planet Earth: the Milky Way Galaxy would have a bigger diameter than the distance from the sun to Jupiter (around 5 AU's). But closer than Saturn (around 10 AU's).

I drive a transport truck. I have some remarkable conversations with complete strangers. This video has come up in a shockingly large number of them. Brilliant work, folks. Thank you. You’re inspiring a generation, and educating several others. People’s preconceived notions of what they need to worry about simply fade away into quiet awe when they see this. It can bring peace to some folks, simply because of the perspective. This video should have been viewed at TIFF, among other places. And it should be (and probably is, in some) viewed in every science classroom in the world.

Among the hundreds of UKposts videos I've seen, this one is definitely in the top 3! Well done Wylie and Alex. Thank you.

Now how big do your problems seem?

What impresses me most is the gravity of the sun. It's still catching Neptune on such an incredible distance.

This is such a humbling video. Beautiful. Watching this, I can barely wrap my mind around the scale of our own solar system. To think that our entire galaxy is a speck in the grand scheme of the universe is beautiful, scary, inspiring… I don’t have the words to describe it. Thank you for creating this.

* sad Pluto noises *

10 years later: OH MY GOD GUYS ALIENS DREW THESE CIRCLES BUT WHAT DO THEY MEAN?

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. ------ Carl Sagan

I love the music in this so much, it really adds to the space/void-y theme of the video

This is one of the things I've always wanted to see. Thanks a lot

This is so awesome. It blew my mind to think how much energy the sun emits to heat all the way to here. This literally warms the earth and you can feel that heat in your body on a sunny day.

It went from a cool experiment to an introspective soul-touching experience. Well done.

2:36 - I have the world in my pocket somewhere... AMAZING! SURREAL! ART! MASTERPIECE!! Videos likes these don't make me regret about the internet!

Somehow missed this when it came out. Congratulations - a thoroughly excellent science communication video. Thank you!

The marbled Earth rolling across the cracked dry desert floor was epic.

_"Venus is the same size as earth"_ Astronomical OCDs: *TRIGGERED*

I loved the way the sun set while you filmed this.

Love this, so some local Eagle Scouts did a project similar to this a few years ago on a paved bike path around here. There’s pedestals with models of the planets similar in size as your models at the same distances away on the path. It really makes you realize how far away the outer planets really are. The fact you drew out complete orbits is amazing.

In Melbourne, Australia they have a scale model of the solar system.....5+km long to walk it....you can buy a coffee on your journey from Jupiter to the rest of the outer planets. :-)

With the planets being so far from the sun, this really shows how strong and pervasive is gravity: it keeps the solar system together across such distances.

I've come back to watch it again and still get goosebumps.

This is one of the most fascinating videos i have ever seen. I wish we could have seen it at night with all planets lit by light. This was awesome though. Thank you so much for this!

Guys I am a Science teacher and this video seriously touched my heart. I love Science and the way you presented the info in this video is beyond words. I am going to show this to my students during our Astronomy class. Thank you guys. You earned my sub.

What's mind blowing is that even if humanity were to somehow travel at the speed of light, we wouldn't get very far at all in this galaxy. It takes 45 minutes for light from the Sun to reach Jupiter, and five hours for it to reach Pluto. The speed of light may be fast to us, but it's pretty much slower than walking speed to the universe.

This really made me feel how small we are. and how vast the universe is. Thank you!

We've had a travelling exhibition in the UK that did this, it was mind blowing to walk miles to see the solar system. Absolutely fascinating.

Knowing the universe has always created a sense of longing for me.

And then there is Pluto, a dwarf planet so far out, that it hasn't even made half of it’s rotation around the Sun since we found it.

I refound this: Now, even more than ever, we need to understand this blue marble is all we have got. Thank you again !

I thought about what to write about this great video, but I couldn't think of anything clever. All I could think of was wow...

"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest, but consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us". -Carl Sagan

At this scale, the nearest star (Proxima Centauri) would be 29,266 miles away. Put another way, if the distance between the Sun and the Earth were represented as a single inch, that distance would still be 4.21 miles. The scale of the universe is unimaginable.

I am grateful for your efforts. You have created a clear and creative visualization of Time, the Universe, and the Solar System. It is a great gift. I share it with everyone in the hopes that they too, will be as awed as I am by the implications of such beauty as surrounds us. Thank you!

It doesn't matter how many times I watch this video, each time it gives me the awes!

powerful POWERFUL comment: "everything I've ever known, was behind my thumb"

"why are you here?" Guy: I don't have a job Everyone there: hahahahahaha Guy: 🥺🤕

Absolutely brillant. Thanks, guys, for all your work.

I don't know how I've never seen this video before, but thankfully that changed moments ago. I've had a lifelong interest in astronomy, and I've understood the sizes and distances involved for more than half a century...but this somehow made an emotional impact I was NOT expecting. Brought me to tears, in fact. Thank you!

Yo nice video 8/10 ...BUT... friends we were all waiting to see a shot from the sky to see how your scale looked

"To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." -Carl Sagan

This is amazing. Please, please make more content. We want more of these.

This ultra - short video is V E R Y informative // & // concise // simple . It gets straight to the point . Nice .

A flatearther’s greatest fear is sphere itself. This video if fantastic!

I love that Usain Bolt can run to Mercury in under 6 seconds.

This made me really emotional. Wasn't expecting that. I didn't want the video to end. Thanks guys. 🌍

Wonderful video. Thank you for the perspective and for taking the time to create such a comprehensive and elegant view.

RIP: Pluto

That's 7:07 mins well spent on UKposts. Rare. Thanks for this video. Set the perspective right. Cheers.

Appreciate the amount of work put into this. I will say, I wish you had a drone picture at night high up in the sky looking down at the illuminated solar system you created to get an overview of its scale.

Never stop being enchanted by this video. UKposts at is very best. Thank you.