{"id":1897,"date":"2014-03-08T14:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2014-04-19T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T18:30:20","slug":"if-the-moon-were-only-1-pixel-a-tediously-accurate-map-of-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2014\/03\/08\/if-the-moon-were-only-1-pixel-a-tediously-accurate-map-of-the-solar-system\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel \u2013 A tediously accurate map of the solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations on making it this far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Being a science and space nerd from an early age, I’ve looked at a lot<\/em> of maps of the solar system over the years, but I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed one as much as “If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel \u2013 A tediously accurate map of the solar system”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s sort of a philosophical side-scroller game (with no point) based on science. Or, actually, it’s a nice essay, presented in a somewhat unusual form, on the difficulties we humans have wrapping our heads around things that aren’t of a human scale, like the solar system.<\/p>\n

“Sorry, Humanity,” says Evolution. “What with all the jaguars trying to eat you, the parasites in your fur, and the never-ending need for a decent steak, I was a little busy. I didn\u2019t exactly have time to come up with a way to conceive of vast stretches of nothingness.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s fun and informative and definitely worth scrolling past all those zillions of miles of darkness to find the next snarky little remark or, if you’re really<\/em> lucky, an actual planet :)<\/p>\n

With so much emptiness, aren’t stars, planets, and people just glitches in an otherwise elegant and uniform nothingness, like pieces of lint on a black sweater?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(It also shows off some pretty shiny webdev tools and design, which made a different part of my nerdliness happy.)<\/p>\n

Big thanks to Josh Broton<\/a> for the pointer: <\/p>\n

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\u201cIf the Moon Were Only One Pixel\u201d http:\/\/t.co\/iJClVbJ6mi<\/a> <\/p>\n

I literally nerded out at 100% intensity with this.<\/p>\n

— Bro(ton)grammer (@joshbroton) March 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n