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Solar system tour at speed of light
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| Experience our solar system at the speed of light (it's not as exciting as it sounds) | |
| Step 1) Visit http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html. | |
| Step 2) Open the JS console and paste in the following code. | |
| Step 3) Watch the solar system "fly" by (BTW it'll take more than 5 hours to get to Pluto) |
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| var c = 299792458; var w = 3474800; var cw = c / w * 0.001; var running = true; var t1 = new Date(); var x = 0; function scrollAtC(t0) { t1 = new Date(); x = window.scrollX + (t1 - t0) * cw; window.scrollTo(x, 0); if (running) { setTimeout(function() { scrollAtC(t1) }, 17) } }; scrollAtC(new Date()); |
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