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It's A Small World After All

Exploring scale in Minecraft and in our heads

On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.

To Scale: The Solar System Scale Model Video

Calculator to make your own Solar System model

Solar System Model Calculator

Illustrating video comparing the size of stars

Star Size Comparison Video

Minecraft game play

Use the keys WASD to control the movement of the character and the Mouse to controle the point of view / camera. Double tap the space key to start to fly, hold spaceto fly up and hold shift to fly down.

Workshop activity

Use a local minecraft server to explore scale in Minecraft.

  • Explore the Solar System

Solar-Explorations

Get yourself to the solar platform using warp

/warp solar

Solar System Building

/jsp planet <Planet_Name>

<Planet_Name>
Earth
Sun
Moon
Mercury
Venus 
Mars
Saturn
Jupiter
Neptune
Pluto