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1773 points kaonwarb | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 04:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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GMoromisato ◴[20 Oct 25 16:09 UTC] No.45645531[source]▶
I love this page and I donated, but I was (naively) expecting it to get to geosynchronous altitude, which is the actual top of a space elevator.

Of course, that would require a page 420 times longer, and I don't know if a browser would even support it.

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1. dredmorbius ◴[20 Oct 25 19:54 UTC] No.45648458[source]▶
From the same site, there's the Size of Space page:

<https://neal.fun/size-of-space/>

There are a few sites which let you scroll through the solar system, from the Sun or Earth IIRC. Here's one:

<https://onotherplanets.com/solarwalk>

Ah, and "If the Moon Were Only One Pixel", which is what I'd had in mind, shared by @stared <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45641839>:

<https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....> (2014)

(HN discussions: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44266828> (4 months ago), <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21735528> (6 years ago) <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32936581> (3 years ago).