Every Solar System Image You’ve Ever Seen is Wrong. Till Now.

So which one are we (we human beings, I mean)?

Infinitesimal

String scale

Nanoscale

Subatomic scale

Atomic

Molecular

Mitochondrial

Cellular

Microscopic

Minuscule

Tiny

Lilliputian

Small

Medium

Bulky

Large

Immense

Massive

Giant

Mammoth

Colossal

Leviathan

Vast

Galactic

Cosmic

Universal

Well, it depends on who’s asking. To a virus, we’re colossal, even vast. To a giraffe, we’re small. If it’s me asking, a virus looks microscopic (minuscule?), while the solar system—ah, the solar system—has gotta be in the colossal-to-vast range, but I really have no idea. I can look up at what might be Mars (the rosy-looking one) in the night sky, but I haven’t the imagination, the metaphor, the math to make sense of that distance. All I know

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