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This massive underwater park is designed to emulate the entire solar system, including orbiting planetary bodies using special purpose spherical displays and an underwater burning Sun at the center.
Directed currents through out the park simulate orbits and gravity assist.
Tour the Solar System
in a two or four seater spaceship or a one-person rebreather SCUBA suit with electric "jet packs".
Solar System - UK size
http://news.bbc.co....ci/tech/4320011.stm
[po, Oct 19 2005]
Solar System - how to scale it
http://www.backwood...les/silveira60.html
[wagster, Oct 19 2005]
Glass Fishing Net Floats:
http://www.mpwarner...epth/image-964.html
Precious and durable, these may be suitable for underwater "planets". [Amos Kito, Oct 19 2005]
For pets
orbital_20guppies
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 22 2005]
Moon Resort -- On Earth
http://www.moonworldresorts.com/
[theircompetitor, Oct 01 2011]
Maine's Solar System Model
http://www.umpi.mai...du/info/nmms/solar/
We've got the biggest one. Nyah-nyah! [Alterother, Oct 01 2011]
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Yes! With “Also sprach Zarathustra” (familiar song from 2001: A Space Odyssey) on the hydrophone. |
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Make a geocentric version! |
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Very very cool.
Is there a way to burn underwater without making a ton of bubbles? |
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Oh, and singing dolphins. “If I had just one last wish, I would like a tasty fish!” |
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With a whirlpool black-hole that takes you into another part of the galaxy [+]. |
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nice one, [coprocephalous] |
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[tc] this is wonderful! (+) If built to scale, a tennis ball earth would be pretty hard to find in a Pacific size pool. Think of all the school tour groups we could get rid of! |
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schools of fish in a giant plastic torus to simulate the asteroid belt. |
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[phundug] - 'twould be better if every so often we could get the fish to collide and fracture. |
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Tennis ball? Try dust mote. |
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It wouldn't be *quite* that small. To get the solar system comfortably inside the pacific ocean (make the diameter of pluto about 5000 miles) you need to scale it down by a factor of around 1,500,000. This would make the sun about half a mile across and the earth about nine metres across. I still wouldn't go looking for it with a bunch of schoolkids in scuba gear though. |
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//make the diameter of pluto about 5000 miles/ He did, of course, mean "make the diameter of the orbit of Pluto about 5000 miles". |
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//I still wouldn't go looking for it with a bunch of schoolkids in scuba gear though// Particularly because the Earth would be moving about a mile a day. |
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//an underwater burning Sun// |
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...am i the only one who sees a distinct problem with this concept??... |
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Tricky but not impossible [daaisy] - half a mile across really would be a feat of engineering though. |
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daaisy, have you not seen underwater flares? |
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If Earth were reduced to the size of a pea, Jupiter would be over a thousand feet distant and Pluto, at a mile and a half distant would be the size of a single bacterium. (I read that somewhere.) |
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The distances in the Solar System are truly awesome. |
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scale it on kind of a log scale, where 1000x = 3x, 100x=2x, etc. |
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<finds large metal ball, tethered> That's no moon... |
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<aside> clever clogs... </a> |
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great and even better if we could work the song from the recent "hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy" film in, "So Long And Thanks For All the Fish"
[+] |
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starfish for stars, perhaps? |
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School tour group: "Hey, Joey, guess what you can do in your suit!" |
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Don't keep to scale. If you did, your spaceship would be a giant in comparison. Instead, just have a model SUn at the center, with various stations in 'orbit' around it, that can be docked with by the craft. |
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I like it. The only downside is that since it couldn't be to scale, since there would be too much empty space in the exhibit, the off-scale version would stick in kids' minds and you'd have to emphasize in reality the sun is much bigger and the planets much further apart than it would appear. However, it would be so beautiful, and so much cooler than a book or video about the topic, it would still be worth a visit. |
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I'm sure almost everyone would love to fly into space and look down onto the earth, and this is as close as most people could get! Oh that gave me another idea - the Earth-globe surface could be a live projection of current satellite imagery, so you would be able to see wildfires, volcanoes erupting, and other natural events as if you were looking down at the planet today from space. |
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See link to Moon Resort -- being built on Earth |
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How do they simulate the lung-sucking vacuum of outer
space, I wonder? Seems to me that would be one of the
key features of the 'Lunar Experience'. |
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As a resident of the state that has the world's largest and
most accurate scale model of the Solar System <linky>, I
feel
fully qualified to weigh in on this nearly-six-year-old
discussion. |
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As many others have pointed out, building this
model/underwater theme park to scale would be very
impractical. Our model is over 40 miles long (from the Sun
to Pluto) and requires the Sun model to be almost 50 ft in
diameter just so Pluto can be 1" wide. The only way to
make this a one-day attraction would be to shrink Pluto to
the size of a pin-head. |
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Since our solar system is in both space and time, a
straightforward way to address distance, as your
submarine spaceship travels the orbits, is to simply
have it take longer to get from one place to the
other, and to restrict the visibility of the glow of the
individual planet as you are getting there. |
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This could be accomplished by building a set of
"orbital" tunnels. |
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Bravo! Another great TC masterpiece! |
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Putting these back up in a response to theircompetitor's post responding to a particulary dumb political rant: //(TC said) "It's funny, more than 20 years for me on the site (though mostly absent recently) and the political nonsense never stops. |
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I've moved on to writing poetry and making a difference :)
— theircompetitor, Apr 11 2024// |
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I'm wanting to show TC that the HB isn't just a cesspool of hate obsessed political screeds. There's still creativity and comradery here. I'd be very sad to see another creative person leave because of this Halfbakery breakdown. |
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