Scale

If you ever wanted a way to feel small, here’s a dose of universal perspective from Brad Goodpseed.

So the basic idea is, each planet you see is the size it would appear in the sky if it shared an orbit with the moon, 380,000 kms from earth.

I don’t know if it’s the music, or my knowledge of what the gravitational forces would do to us were this true, but there’s something incredibly awe-inspiring and unsettling about this.