There is a VR experience called Titans of Space that curates a flythrough of the solar system. It seems pretty simple, showing the planets, moons, and some info about them, etc.. But as a middle-aged man, it was the first thing in my life that had EVER really impressed upon me the sheer size of the sun. You can see comparisons in textbooks, or look at numbers and get an idea, but this demo was almost terrifying when it got to a point where it was comparing a sphere of the earth (which seemed to be about 1 foot in diameter in front of me) to the sun (which was a giant fiery monster so big that even though it was technically spherical and seemed to be far-ish away was also somehow interpreted by my brain as concave because I had to look way up and way down to see the edges of it.)
HeyItsBlake on June 14th, 2017 at 17:16 UTC »
My brain can't wrap my head around the fact that the sun is nearly 36 million miles behind that tiny dot that is Mercury
Merpie101 on June 14th, 2017 at 18:20 UTC »
The sun is fucking huge .-.
ChompyChomp on June 14th, 2017 at 18:48 UTC »
There is a VR experience called Titans of Space that curates a flythrough of the solar system. It seems pretty simple, showing the planets, moons, and some info about them, etc.. But as a middle-aged man, it was the first thing in my life that had EVER really impressed upon me the sheer size of the sun. You can see comparisons in textbooks, or look at numbers and get an idea, but this demo was almost terrifying when it got to a point where it was comparing a sphere of the earth (which seemed to be about 1 foot in diameter in front of me) to the sun (which was a giant fiery monster so big that even though it was technically spherical and seemed to be far-ish away was also somehow interpreted by my brain as concave because I had to look way up and way down to see the edges of it.)