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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]
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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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//Is there a way to burn underwater without making a ton of bubbles// |
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Bubbles don't weigh much:) Try electric arc welding. |
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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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Finds floating turd... Mmmm, space junk. |
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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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Dave arrives at the Planequarium, in autumn:
"Oh, my god, it's full of leaves!" |
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starfish for stars, perhaps? |
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For stars? Luminescent single-celled critters, surely? |
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School tour group: "Hey, Joey, guess what you can do in your suit!" |
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