On: Where are the Voyagers?

[patrickmn]

We really are on a fragile blue ball doing loop-de-loops through space!

[lisper → patrickmn]

If you shrunk the sun down to the size of a ping-pong ball, earth would be a poppy seed orbiting ten meters away. Pluto would be 100m away. The Voyagers would be 300m away.

The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, would be 500 miles away.

[wiz21c → lisper]

Proxima Centauri is so far away that's depressing...

[ekianjo → wiz21c]

the proxima is almost a joke in the name.

[enave → ekianjo]

Well, there are three stars in the alpha centauri system. Proxima is the most proximate

[ekianjo → enave]

It is, but it's almost marginal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri#/media/File:Rel...

[lisper → lisper]

> earth would be a poppy seed orbiting ten meters away

Correction: that should have been 10 feet (3 m). The other numbers are (more or less) correct.

[sidcool → lisper]

Needs some metriculation /s

[RangerScience → patrickmn]

Wiggly loop-de-loops.