Josh Worth

I think it's pretty obvious where American prosperity went. https://joshworth.com/dev/wealthgap/ The bottom 90% of Americans only have 32% of the wealth.

I don't think 1000, or even 1000000 are enough if you use random directions. Space is <huge>huge</huge>. This has been posted here afew times https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

And "up", but shown sideways, and on a different scale: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html "If the Moon were only 1 pixel"

The single best depiction of the Solar System to help grok size and distance is Josh Worth's "If the Moon were only 1 pixel": https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

I'm thankful that the view-source:https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html allows one to see the annotations since clicking on the planet jumps scrolls past them. My gratitude for not baking such things into 8MB of JS Also thanks to the view-source I learned that it offers different units, including busses, Great Wall of China, etc

This more detailed simulation shows the impact of UBI, interest, etc. Unsurprisingly it is much more balanced with UBI and even more extremely skewed with interest accruing. https://joshworth.com/jpw/does-this-simulation-explain-why-life-is-unf…

There's a nice interactive simulation here: https://joshworth.com/jpw/does-this-simulation-explain-why-life-is-unf… And a blog post here: https://www.decisionsciencenews.com/?p=6221

EDIT: Sorry I came back from the article to say this before reading the comments here… I should have, the top comment is already saying the exact same thing! The speed of light isn't that fast. The website "the moon is one pixel" is a webpage where our solar system is represented at scale if our moon were 1px in diameter : https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html You can scroll through it. It's so long to go from one planet to another. So much empty space. At some point you're tempted to click on the C button which you see on the bottom right of the page. Speed of light! Surely that will autoscroll fast! … Nope, to scale, the speed of light is waaaay slower than your scrolling was! And then you realize, at the size of the universe, how even light isn't that fast.

This article mentions that the speed of light seems fast to humans living daily lives, but is not so fast on an astronomical scale. The best demonstration of this I've ever seen is on "If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system" [1]. If you've not seen it before, I recommend opening it, using your mouse wheel to scroll from the beginning (near the Sun) to Earth. It should take about a minute, but there's some commentary on the way. Then, to save your mouse and your finger some work, try clicking the icon in the bottom right hand corner to auto-scroll the map at the speed of light. [1] https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

Yes, this is why I always liked 'planet walks' like this [1] If you see Images the planets in the solar system, the solar system itself etc. are mostly not to scale. If you walk such path one get a bit of a feel how large everything is, I think especially if the plantes on the walk are to scale too. Even our solar system is mostly empty. And the distances to moon a microscopic. Walking such a path is is not the same, but a bit like [3] if one is patient (which is difficult on the internet) and doesn't scroll manually but only via the little "c" in the lower right corner, wich scrolls with light speed. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_Planet_Walk (there are several other listed at the bottom of the page) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System_model [3] https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

I also like this site to show the scale of the universe: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html is a hilarious linear scale model of the solar system (scale is that the moon is 1px). Do be warned that for some people scale model of such scales trigger existential dread.

This site[0] helped me improve my mental model. You can scroll through the solar system at scale (the moon being one pixel). It takes a while!! Then you notice a small button at the right bottom corner, that button allows you to auto-scroll at the speed of light, wow, now that’s slow! [0]https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

A scrolly solar system with a similar presentation style: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html , https://hn.algolia.com/?query=If%20the%20moon%20were%20only%201%20pixe…

It's easy to lose track of the scale after scrolling for a while. This website uses a ruler and distance to help show scale: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

A bit more interesting content - If the Moon were only 1 pixel - a Tediously Accurate Scale Model of the Solar System https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html I suggest clicking on light speed scrolling.

If the Moon Were Only One Pixel [1] is my go-to data visualization to share with people who haven't thought about the scale of the solar system that much. [1] https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

This is a great way to spend 10mins and have your mind blown at the same time https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

To drive home the enormous scale of the local solar system, and by extension the universe, I'm fond of this: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

I like this (1) one even better because it highlights the mind bogling vast distances in space instead of just the size of objects. (1) https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

Reminds me of an old favorite https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

Love it ! Makes me think of https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html which is the same but for space.

There is a website that visualizes the distances in the solar system at the scale of 1 pixel to the diameter of Moon. In the lower right corner there is a symbol with a "C" and some lines around it that makes you automatically travel at the speed of light. Start the journey, put it on an extra screen if you have one and see nothing happen for most of the time ;) The current distance from Sun is shown in the bottom center and you can change units in the menu attached to it. "Astronomical units" or "light minutes" might be the most useful, kilometers or miles if you just want to be blown away by the order of magnitude. https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html I also submitted it for discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27573172 Edit: fixed the scale, it's 1px:diameter of Moon, not 1px:distance Earth-Moon as I initially wrote.

Glad to see this showing up every few years. After its initial launch, I think I helped the creator add the localization and lightspeed features: https://joshworth.com/updates-to-the-solar-system-map/ ...and we eventually met up and had lunch.

"If the Moon were only 1 Pixel" gives a good sensation of the distances through the medium of scrolling: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html Edit: Notice the option to travel at lightspeed.... this isn't quite as exciting as you might think.

Yes, they are! And so are the sizes! A planet has a lot of space to use. You probably saw this: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html.

I really like this demo to show how empty our solar system is: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html Or the RL version in Sweden: http://www.swedensolarsystem.se/en/

Same variety of site: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html What's common is that the vast majority of both the ocean and our solar system is just space

As nice as this awesome page is, the source code also looks excellent. view-source:https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html Looks like the whole thing was hand-written with love.

"Is Mars really the best target? Sure it's close but there are moons around Saturn that are interesting as well. Titan for example." First, for what is worth, I share your Mars questioning. But then I can't just let you downplay the distance factor with "sure it's close" glossing-over. One can find interesting tools out there¹ that may help grasping the astronomical distances better. The bottom line is that it just makes more sense to take our chances with planets closer to us and so far, at least with the landing on Moon, the humans respected in this regard their species' "rational" self designation. ¹ http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html#eartht…