Was gonna say I thought there was one here, down under. Believe I saw it on Veritasium's channel. They should be in every major city. It's not like it's a huge infrastructure project. We could even chuck a manhole cover on the ground, for the flerfers. 😂
Also if you're Down Under, try the world's largest virtual solar system near Coonabarabran in central NSW. The dome at the Siding Springs Observatory is the sun, and along the roads and highway, there are scale models of the planets at the scale distance. Pluto is 200km away from the observatory.
Its been mentioned but the Solar System Trail in Melbourne is a 1 to 1 billion km scale walk. It does include Pluto making it 5.9 km in total. One great feature is there are scaled planet sculptures at the distance markers.
How are these not common on every trail over 5 miles?!? The nearest one to me is 568 miles away (914km). This seriously wants to make me petition for this.
It's always the same, especially on the 1:1B models: You make it to Saturn and on the way to Uranus, you start asking yourself whether you took a wrong turn somewhere. Then you doubt that Neptune will ever come. 😆 And for comparison: In that scale, Dan was travelling faster than the speed of light.
Not many people will walk for 250 minutes at a time (distance to neptune in light minutes). At lightspeed saturn is already more than an hour away and as you hinted at that is only at a third of the distance.
I was watching a similar ‘distance of our solar system’ program & they’d set it up on the Great Salt Lake, so it was a dead straight line to each planet from the sun & they had set it up so they’d be walking at light speed. It really blew my mind & for the first time, I realized how slow light speed is in the grand scheme. The universe is so mind-bogglingly vast that, even if we could figure out a way to travel at 500 times the speed of light, we’d still be moving through the universe at a snail’s pace.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 The 'speed of light' has always been poorly named. It should have been called the speed of *causality*, because there's nothing special about light per se, it's about upper limit to the speed of information. I'm not sure that we will ever find a way to exceed it, because to do so comes with some pretty mindblowing consequences like effects occurring before their cause.
In the USA, there's a nice to scale solar system called Sagan Planet Walk starting at the Sciencenter in downtown Ithaca, NY. Be sure to pick up your very own "Passport to the Solar System" at the start. Use it to log the number of paces for each planet and get an official stamp at each planet marker. 👍
This was actually really fun. I didn't think it was going to be that interesting but I actually really enjoyed the music, the scenery with the learning experience. 10/10 would like to see more.
Hello, Dan. This video is an absolute delight! Thank you! I live in Hampshire, only half a dozen miles from QE Country Park. I'l definitely be visiting this trail in the near future.
What’s akshly good about this is that it shows that ‘Globers’ are more rounded, grounded people! We don’t sit in our parents’ basement* mobility van* boiler cupboard* glued to screens doing ‘our own research’! (* delete as appropriate)
I love that he says: "It's genuinely like you're in a different country. That is not woods in England, normally, for me." It amuses me because it looks exactly like forest in NEW England. :-) Honestly, Dan, you really should make a trip here. The trails and woods are freaking awesome.
I know its not what he intended, but the end where he's drinking his coffee in silence just felt like a "And here's a tutorial on how to Mind your Own business and sit with your own thoughts, quietly not being a bother. Take Notes." Flat earthers could certainly learn more than a few things watching this video. Always love your videos, Dan! Thanks so much for taking the time to share with us!
Great video! Most people have difficulties understanding big numbers and how huge space actually is, so this is a good way to give some idea of the distances in the solar system. That piece of the forest that you were admiring looked like our Finnish forests with mainly spruce and pine trees. I'm sure you would like running in our beautiful forests, Dan, and you are welcome to do so. Have a good weekend!
They set up a temporary one of these in Liverpool in autumn 2022, except they had models of all the planets that were to scale as well. The Sun through to Mars were all in the city centre shopping district. Jupiter was out next to the Mersey. Saturn was a couple of kilometres hike down the waterfront, which was as far as I went. Uranus and Neptune were way out in the outer suburbs and the countryside. The sun was maybe a meter and a half in diameter, and all the rocky planets were just a few centimetres across. Even Jupiter was only about the size of a football. To quote Douglas Adams: "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
The York to Selby solar trail is also a straight line, as it’s an old railway, and each planet has detailed information and it’s all to scale, including the sun.
Apparently there is one in Ithaca, in New York state, (a bit of a drive from Westchester County) named after Carl Sagan. I doubt CC would visit it. Probably doesn't know it's there.
In this video we can clearly see that all planets are flat and that the sun does not exist. "Glober accidentally debunks globe" Loved the video, thanks Dan
Lansing, Michigan has a lovely solar system trail on its downtown Riverwalk. I used to walk it at least once a year with friends to raise donations for charity.
@@wontonviolence6200 Last I was there, it was an amazing museum. I definitely want to go see it again, although they have been renovating for the last few years...
The Deutsches Museum is fantastic, not least for having the first ever U-boat (U-1) from before the First World War. The other branches, the transport museum and the aircraft museum at an old airfield outside Munich are also worth a visit if you're interested in science and technology.
I really enjoyed this one! This is a perfect combination of things I like: Scimandan explaining universe stuff, being out in nature, seeing different landscapes and making fun of flerfs! Even though I watched the whole video, I still can’t grasp how immense our tiny little solar system is, let alone the rest of the entire universe. Thanks for letting us tag along Dan! 👍🏼
Cool video it's great seeing a scale solar system. I live in Melbourne Australia and along St Kilda beach in Melbourne there's a scale solar system and it goes for nearly 6km and it really gives you an idea of how big the solar system is and how far apart the planets are from each other especially the outer planets.
And now consider these paths put the planets all on a convenient line closest to each other, and not on the other side of the sun. And then consider that if you want to travel between planets, you simply cannot go in direct line or pass the sun in the middle, but have to go in a circle. And then imagine that the light takes 8 minutes to travel from sun to earth. You might be able to run that fast, depending on the scale of the model... But then consider running to Neptune. Absolutely beautiful and amazing. Space is beyond vast for sure.
Ah lad, that's a sad depiction. There was a solar system walk in Derry a couple of years ago called "Our Place in Space." It was 10km in total. It included Pluto, and the size of the planets were to scale, too. It really put things in perspective. Also, Earth had its moon included, too, size and distance from earth. I think the whole display went to GB after Derry. Edit. It went to Cambridge, Aug '22 That was a fascinating walk.
Our entire solar system (4 light hours to Neptune) is just peanuts compared to the distance to even the nearest star (4.2 light years), let alone the nearest galaxy (Canis Major, at 25,000 light years), or the nearest major galaxy (Andromeda) at 2 milion light years. And those are themselves are all part of our 'local' (within 10 million light years) group, which is absolutely dwarfed by the distance to the furthest galaxy we've found, formed not long after the big bang, at 13 billion light years away.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
I live about 40 miles from this park. I've walked the whole South Downs Way on two occasions and visited the park with my kids to "decompress" while staying with relatives. It is a wonderful trail just off the A3. That visitor centre has served me half way decent coffee a number of times. Thanks for the reminder of some great walks. Leith Hill is rather fun with some good woodland and really big views. Holmbury Hill, Box Hill and the rest of the North Downs way are also worth a look.
When I lived in Zurich, They had one of these planet trails up on Uetliberg. The distance and sizes of the planets were all in scale. You started at the sun, and as you walked you passed by each of the planets, each scaled against the Sun at the start. The farthest point, Pluto was just over 7km from where you started at the Sun. I walked that trail of couple of times, really gives you a good sense of distance in the Solar system.
More walking videos? Now we have a sub title for those particular episodes of Saturday Man Dan. Walk Man Dan! Hahahahaha. That looked like a nice park to walk through. Cool video.
When you said “I’m going to keep on going” near the end, I was hoping you’d show us where Pluto would be. It would be nice if they had included on the markers more info about each planet.
It gives an idea of the scale of the distance between the planets to walk them and experience the same difference in distance scaled down, lovely idea for a local park.
This was just a super chill calm video. I work on Saturdays so just sitting in the office and watching this was pretty nice. Love the chill vibes of the music you chose as well Dan.
Genuinely possibly enjoyed this more than any other video you have done. Not because the debunking videos are wrong, but this one is very more intimate. It is real, both in the environment we, certainly in the UK, but in human terms, and also the reality of distance in our solar system. Loved it.
As already mentioned, check out the Sweden Solar System, 1:20 million where they use the Globe arena, the largest spherical arena in the world, and Pluto is in Delsbo, 300km north of Stockholm. So maybe not walking distance ;)
I loved this! There is a shorter walk in Valley City, ND which also has a scale map of the planets and which has various objects aligned to the sun at different times of the year.
I love this! I lived in Eugene, OR which has one, too, but it's a 1:1billion scale and it's linear. They're not in a straight line, but they are linear distance from the "sun." It's along a bike path along the Willamette River. It really is a wonderful experience and puts things in perspective.
I've been to the South Downs several times. As a Dutchman I love to be there, some of the sceneries look like the province of South Limburg in the Netherlands, but the scale of the Downs is much more impressive. I've been to Brighton, Lewes, Alfriston, Steyning, Rye and other places. Loved hiking the Seven Sisters and as a paragliding pilot I loved flying at Devils Dyke, mount Caburn and High and Over. Love to come back some day. I would surely be interested in you showing more hiking in the South Downs region!
It would have been cool if they’d included the asteroid/kuiper belts, the Oort Cloud and the heliopause. To truly show off _all_ of the solar system ^^
There's another good scaled Solar System walk at the Jodrell Bank radio telescope site. When we visited, years ago, the planets had plaques with notice boards containing basic information about each planet.
What a wonderful idea! And yeah yeah... pluto is not considered a planet anymore but, it would be cool to have a marker for that just because it is a part of the solar system. When I see pictures / artists drawings of what the sun would look like from places like Ganymeade or Titan and such, it takes my breath away to think how lonely and distant these places are. And still part of our 'home system'.
This is actually a pretty cool different video, I like it! Still with planets which is of ofcourse amazing, but also different! Have a great Sunday, Dan! Greetings from the Netherlands!
There is a trail like this near Zuerich (up a mountain) where the Sun and planets' sizes are on the same scale as the distances they are apart. Really brings home how far away they are from each other!
I did my own Solar System walk a couple of decades ago. I even went the extra distance to measure out the length of my stride and calculated how many paces I needed to walk for each planet. Then I started at the river park near my home and walked along most of the northern half of it. The full walk (including Pluto, which hadn't been reclassified yet) was about 2km, give or take, and was a serious eye-opener. And yes, the difference between the inner and outer planets is quite stark.The fact that the Sun would have been about basketball-sized and way too small to see at that distance (discounting the interference of terrain) was also a bit unnerving.
I did enjoy this very much, and would love to do this walk, or one similar. I really like when someone creates a "purpose" for a walk that stimulates the mind and body. When I lived in Houston, TX, USA, I would often go to the science museum where outside they had a straight line path scale model of the solar system, where the museum itself was the sun, and they put metal discs in the pavement for each planet at a scale size and distance. Pluto was included as this was years ago.
Dan, you are so lucky you don't have RSI, I could not hold a pole with a camera for 5 minutes. Keep safe and your walking is a fresh breeze, I can smell it. Thanks for your nice video's all the time, I love them.
I'm shattered after that Dan. 😂😂. I'm having a brew and a toasted currant teacake. 😄👍🏻. If you ever do the Pennine way -which I live on - I'll also watch. Lol.
There's a fantastic solar system trail in Eugene Oregon; I've walked it many times myself, The sun and planets are all to scale in both distance and size; and the trail it's self is paved and well maintained and runs along the river. I highly recommend it if you're ever out that way. It starts in Alton Baker park.
I bet there are more stars in the universe than leaves on all the trees we saw on your journey through our solar system. Cool video, I do like the outdoor venues on occasion, adds a bit of freshness and life to the information. Thanks Sciman
There's a travelling one called Our Place In Space that went round Northern Ireland and Cambridge last year. I did it on my bike when it was in Northern Ireland. They used the North Down coastal path and it had scale models of the sun and planets set up alone the way and included Pluto. I started at Pluto and finished at the Sun 10km away. It felt like I was flying into the solar system and even the distance from Pluto to Neptune was staggering. At times, Pluto is also closer to Uranus than Uranus is from the sun. The distance between Uranus to Saturn is about the same as the distance between Saturn and the sun. It really makes you appreciate the scale of it all.
I'm very keen on maps too. Before retirement, I got the most satisfaction from work, when I had to use, and at times create, a map. USGS 7.5 minute quad sheets were my favorites.
"There's no sun"
Well, yeah. It's England, innit.
It's the bo'o'wata they take with them lol
😂
I made a similar comment lol
@@brucethen oh aint you special 🤣
is that what you fink? 😂
If you're ever Down Under, you can try the Solar System trail in Melbourne. It's about 5.9km along Port Phillip Bay
Beat me to it. 🙂
Was gonna say I thought there was one here, down under. Believe I saw it on Veritasium's channel.
They should be in every major city. It's not like it's a huge infrastructure project. We could even chuck a manhole cover on the ground, for the flerfers. 😂
These are a very stark demonstration to children of his bloody big the solar system is, and how tiny earth is in comparison.
They're ace.
Also if you're Down Under, try the world's largest virtual solar system near Coonabarabran in central NSW. The dome at the Siding Springs Observatory is the sun, and along the roads and highway, there are scale models of the planets at the scale distance. Pluto is 200km away from the observatory.
There is a globe for Proxima Centauri next to the Sun (Sol) though you have to circumnavigation the earth on the great circle to complete the path.
Its been mentioned but the Solar System Trail in Melbourne is a 1 to 1 billion km scale walk. It does include Pluto making it 5.9 km in total. One great feature is there are scaled planet sculptures at the distance markers.
Similar in Zurich on Mount Uetliberg. There everything is scaled in comparison to the sun which has been scaled down to 1m in diameter.
same in Island. Sun and inner planet to scale. Sun is some 3.5m in diameter, Inner planets along route 425/41
There’s one between Taunton and Bridgewater in the uk too. Much better than the one Dan just did.
The Melbourne model also features Proxima Centauri at the correct scale distance of almost once around Earth.
How are these not common on every trail over 5 miles?!? The nearest one to me is 568 miles away (914km). This seriously wants to make me petition for this.
It's always the same, especially on the 1:1B models: You make it to Saturn and on the way to Uranus, you start asking yourself whether you took a wrong turn somewhere. Then you doubt that Neptune will ever come. 😆
And for comparison: In that scale, Dan was travelling faster than the speed of light.
Not many people will walk for 250 minutes at a time (distance to neptune in light minutes). At lightspeed saturn is already more than an hour away and as you hinted at that is only at a third of the distance.
I was watching a similar ‘distance of our solar system’ program & they’d set it up on the Great Salt Lake, so it was a dead straight line to each planet from the sun & they had set it up so they’d be walking at light speed. It really blew my mind & for the first time, I realized how slow light speed is in the grand scheme.
The universe is so mind-bogglingly vast that, even if we could figure out a way to travel at 500 times the speed of light, we’d still be moving through the universe at a snail’s pace.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 The 'speed of light' has always been poorly named. It should have been called the speed of *causality*, because there's nothing special about light per se, it's about upper limit to the speed of information. I'm not sure that we will ever find a way to exceed it, because to do so comes with some pretty mindblowing consequences like effects occurring before their cause.
Thankfully Pluto was taken off the planet list.
Lovely
In the USA, there's a nice to scale solar system called Sagan Planet Walk starting at the Sciencenter in downtown Ithaca, NY. Be sure to pick up your very own "Passport to the Solar System" at the start. Use it to log the number of paces for each planet and get an official stamp at each planet marker. 👍
This was actually really fun. I didn't think it was going to be that interesting but I actually really enjoyed the music, the scenery with the learning experience. 10/10 would like to see more.
Yeah the music was really good.
"Absolute butt load of moons." Best pun I've heard for a long time.
I believe that's a metric butt-load. Imperial butt-loads are slightly larger.
@@h14hc124Actually no. Imperial is smaller on what matters, a litre is a litre, a pint is 0.587 of a litre. 🥳🥳
@@michaelawford7325And remember, a US Gallon is smaller than an Imperial gallon.
Hello, Dan.
This video is an absolute delight! Thank you!
I live in Hampshire, only half a dozen miles from QE Country Park.
I'l definitely be visiting this trail in the near future.
What’s akshly good about this is that it shows that ‘Globers’ are more rounded, grounded people! We don’t sit in
our parents’ basement*
mobility van*
boiler cupboard*
glued to screens doing ‘our own research’! (* delete as appropriate)
Sorry, but your 'akshly' made me chuckle, you are aware the spelling is - 'actually'... 😉🤣
😎🇬🇧
Well... This country park seems flat, right?
Otherwise Dan would have fallen off.
So, done and dusted. Flerfs where right after all.
@@maartenverdouw4688How can you even think you can walk from planet to planet. Doesn't that prove that they are just held up by balloons.
Speak for yourself
@@larswilms8275 Balloons are a hoax. They are just flat rubber discs photoshopped by Nasa.
as much fun as debunking flerfs and conspiracists is, its nice to see you doing something different for a change!!
keep up the good work!
6:22 this ambient music and those measuring units somehow bring me back to 1800s... even that I've never been there. Nice.
I love that he says: "It's genuinely like you're in a different country. That is not woods in England, normally, for me." It amuses me because it looks exactly like forest in NEW England. :-) Honestly, Dan, you really should make a trip here. The trails and woods are freaking awesome.
You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
I see what you did there.
Just don’t forget your towel, you hoopy frood
Now there's a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is
Well done sir. The next round of Pangalactic Gargleblasters is on me 🍻
I really enjoyed WalkManDan🙂
Brilliant!
Recently on Venus: "Can i get the day off? I need to build a new house."
You good sir have earned my up vote!
Imagine calling in sick for the day?
Can I have fifty pound to mend the shed?
I know its not what he intended, but the end where he's drinking his coffee in silence just felt like a "And here's a tutorial on how to Mind your Own business and sit with your own thoughts, quietly not being a bother. Take Notes." Flat earthers could certainly learn more than a few things watching this video.
Always love your videos, Dan! Thanks so much for taking the time to share with us!
This is my favorite video from you of all time so far. Informative and it was like we traveled right next to you. Loved this video
Great video! Most people have difficulties understanding big numbers and how huge space actually is, so this is a good way to give some idea of the distances in the solar system.
That piece of the forest that you were admiring looked like our Finnish forests with mainly spruce and pine trees. I'm sure you would like running in our beautiful forests, Dan, and you are welcome to do so. Have a good weekend!
They set up a temporary one of these in Liverpool in autumn 2022, except they had models of all the planets that were to scale as well. The Sun through to Mars were all in the city centre shopping district. Jupiter was out next to the Mersey. Saturn was a couple of kilometres hike down the waterfront, which was as far as I went. Uranus and Neptune were way out in the outer suburbs and the countryside. The sun was maybe a meter and a half in diameter, and all the rocky planets were just a few centimetres across. Even Jupiter was only about the size of a football. To quote Douglas Adams: "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
We did one of these trails in Zurich two years ago. Really helps put things on perspective
The York to Selby solar trail is also a straight line, as it’s an old railway, and each planet has detailed information and it’s all to scale, including the sun.
Can you imagine CC walking this and just saying “nope nope fake fake”. It would hurt his little brain lol😂
He’d have to do it in his van..
He’s too fat and out of shape to make the walk.
Apparently there is one in Ithaca, in New York state, (a bit of a drive from Westchester County) named after Carl Sagan. I doubt CC would visit it. Probably doesn't know it's there.
If he had the stamina to walk that path in the first place.
I'm not sure he ever leaves Chesterfield.
Really enjoy the Saturday sessions. Keep it going 😊😊
In this video we can clearly see that all planets are flat and that the sun does not exist.
"Glober accidentally debunks globe"
Loved the video, thanks Dan
Shame they used a globe picture for earth ...
Lansing, Michigan has a lovely solar system trail on its downtown Riverwalk. I used to walk it at least once a year with friends to raise donations for charity.
You Rock SciMan Dan!!!
This is a astonishing video to demonstrate the vastness of our incredible universe. Thank you so much for this "simple" demonstration!
The Deutsche Museum in Munich has such a walk, too: "Sun" in the Museum's yard, planets on a nice walk close to the Isar river.
Sounds like a good reason to visit!
@@wontonviolence6200 Last I was there, it was an amazing museum. I definitely want to go see it again, although they have been renovating for the last few years...
The Deutsches Museum is fantastic, not least for having the first ever U-boat (U-1) from before the First World War. The other branches, the transport museum and the aircraft museum at an old airfield outside Munich are also worth a visit if you're interested in science and technology.
@@jerry2357 The U-Boat was among the sections closed for renovations when I was last there :(
@@nctpti2073 They always seem to be renovating something in the museum...
At the end, you should be coming up in Pluto shortly....Only a bit further to go....
That was very fun. I was wondering if they'd included Pluto. I suppose that might take another day and lots more coffee...
this was a great chill mix up, liked it a lot
I really enjoyed this one! This is a perfect combination of things I like: Scimandan explaining universe stuff, being out in nature, seeing different landscapes and making fun of flerfs! Even though I watched the whole video, I still can’t grasp how immense our tiny little solar system is, let alone the rest of the entire universe. Thanks for letting us tag along Dan! 👍🏼
A pretty great demonstration of the full scale of the solar system! 🙂
Surprising and pleasant kollab of Sci and Run ManDan :D
Cool video it's great seeing a scale solar system. I live in Melbourne Australia and along St Kilda beach in Melbourne there's a scale solar system and it goes for nearly 6km and it really gives you an idea of how big the solar system is and how far apart the planets are from each other especially the outer planets.
And now consider these paths put the planets all on a convenient line closest to each other, and not on the other side of the sun.
And then consider that if you want to travel between planets, you simply cannot go in direct line or pass the sun in the middle, but have to go in a circle.
And then imagine that the light takes 8 minutes to travel from sun to earth. You might be able to run that fast, depending on the scale of the model... But then consider running to Neptune.
Absolutely beautiful and amazing. Space is beyond vast for sure.
Ah lad, that's a sad depiction. There was a solar system walk in Derry a couple of years ago called "Our Place in Space." It was 10km in total. It included Pluto, and the size of the planets were to scale, too. It really put things in perspective. Also, Earth had its moon included, too, size and distance from earth. I think the whole display went to GB after Derry.
Edit. It went to Cambridge, Aug '22
That was a fascinating walk.
Beautiful countryside!
Do you know what mountain that is in your picture? It’s also beautiful…
@@arvohyvarinen4975 Mt Baker, near Bellingham, Washington state.
@@arvohyvarinen4975 Mt Baker, near Bellingham Washington state.
Just shows how absurdly large space actually is even when at this scale.
Our entire solar system (4 light hours to Neptune) is just peanuts compared to the distance to even the nearest star (4.2 light years), let alone the nearest galaxy (Canis Major, at 25,000 light years), or the nearest major galaxy (Andromeda) at 2 milion light years. And those are themselves are all part of our 'local' (within 10 million light years) group, which is absolutely dwarfed by the distance to the furthest galaxy we've found, formed not long after the big bang, at 13 billion light years away.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
My brain still can't fathom it...
I live about 40 miles from this park. I've walked the whole South Downs Way on two occasions and visited the park with my kids to "decompress" while staying with relatives. It is a wonderful trail just off the A3. That visitor centre has served me half way decent coffee a number of times. Thanks for the reminder of some great walks. Leith Hill is rather fun with some good woodland and really big views. Holmbury Hill, Box Hill and the rest of the North Downs way are also worth a look.
I love trail parks, thanks for sharing. Just Lovely
There is a similar solar walk/cycle path between Selby and York. As you get to the outer planets i was grateful i decided to cycle it.
We walked the one in Anchorage, Alaska. It's scaled so that an average walking pace is scaled to the speed of light.
I really enjoyed this video Dan. The Saturday Sessions are a nice change of pace.
Really enjoying the new content on both Wednesdays and Saturdays. Keep up the great work.
When I lived in Zurich, They had one of these planet trails up on Uetliberg. The distance and sizes of the planets were all in scale. You started at the sun, and as you walked you passed by each of the planets, each scaled against the Sun at the start. The farthest point, Pluto was just over 7km from where you started at the Sun. I walked that trail of couple of times, really gives you a good sense of distance in the Solar system.
Saturday Man Dan at it again. This name for these sessions will catch on eventually. LOL. Fun video Dan!
More walking videos? Now we have a sub title for those particular episodes of Saturday Man Dan. Walk Man Dan! Hahahahaha.
That looked like a nice park to walk through. Cool video.
When you said “I’m going to keep on going” near the end, I was hoping you’d show us where Pluto would be.
It would be nice if they had included on the markers more info about each planet.
That sounds super cool I love when Parks layout something for you to discover throughout the park
This was so cool Dan! Loved it, thank you for bringing us along on this amazing walk in such a beautiful park.
I really love these kind of videos way, way more than the ones with flatards.
These videos are informative and relaxing. The others are... a headache.
We also have this in Plön, Germany. Our path even has tiles with 3d models of the planets in them, as well as descriptions and it goes around a lake.
It gives an idea of the scale of the distance between the planets to walk them and experience the same difference in distance scaled down, lovely idea for a local park.
This was just a super chill calm video. I work on Saturdays so just sitting in the office and watching this was pretty nice. Love the chill vibes of the music you chose as well Dan.
That looks like such a beautiful trail! Lovely choice of background music too!
Genuinely possibly enjoyed this more than any other video you have done. Not because the debunking videos are wrong, but this one is very more intimate. It is real, both in the environment we, certainly in the UK, but in human terms, and also the reality of distance in our solar system. Loved it.
As already mentioned, check out the Sweden Solar System, 1:20 million where they use the Globe arena, the largest spherical arena in the world, and Pluto is in Delsbo, 300km north of Stockholm.
So maybe not walking distance ;)
Look at that beautiful Brit sunny sky!
Every shot, just Sun sun sun, not Grey and cold or dreary lookin at all!
Nice presentation. What a beautiful wilderness on this remarkable globe we inhabit.
I loved this! There is a shorter walk in Valley City, ND which also has a scale map of the planets and which has various objects aligned to the sun at different times of the year.
Corpus Christi Texas has one along the sea wall. It's also a great place to watch boats sail beyond the horizon.
And to think, at scale, you were walking faster than the speed of light!
This was a different kind of video...but I just woke up and it was a wonderfully pleasant to watch and listen.
I'v said it before, I'll say it again.....Love your Saturday offerings. Excellent concept ! Very creative!
I enjoyed the walk! That's the kind of park I like. Also amazed at the distances of the outer solar system!
after seeing the sing behind you, i will have to do the southdowns on my E MTB . born and bred Winchester no in Sussex
King Alfie's Statue and the Man on the Horse says Hi. :)
There is also on of these in the Swiss mountains, above the town of Saint-Luc. It's beautiful!
I love this! I lived in Eugene, OR which has one, too, but it's a 1:1billion scale and it's linear. They're not in a straight line, but they are linear distance from the "sun." It's along a bike path along the Willamette River. It really is a wonderful experience and puts things in perspective.
2.14 That Earth looks a bit flat! 😆🤣
I enjoyed the walk with you Dan.
I've been to the South Downs several times. As a Dutchman I love to be there, some of the sceneries look like the province of South Limburg in the Netherlands, but the scale of the Downs is much more impressive. I've been to Brighton, Lewes, Alfriston, Steyning, Rye and other places. Loved hiking the Seven Sisters and as a paragliding pilot I loved flying at Devils Dyke, mount Caburn and High and Over. Love to come back some day. I would surely be interested in you showing more hiking in the South Downs region!
SciManDan, wow, beautiful! It looks just how I've always imagined 'England'. Thankyou. 👍💙💙💙🥰✌
It would have been cool if they’d included the asteroid/kuiper belts, the Oort Cloud and the heliopause. To truly show off _all_ of the solar system ^^
There's another good scaled Solar System walk at the Jodrell Bank radio telescope site. When we visited, years ago, the planets had plaques with notice boards containing basic information about each planet.
What a wonderful idea! And yeah yeah... pluto is not considered a planet anymore but, it would be cool to have a marker for that just because it is a part of the solar system. When I see pictures / artists drawings of what the sun would look like from places like Ganymeade or Titan and such, it takes my breath away to think how lonely and distant these places are. And still part of our 'home system'.
Thank you for a lovely walk, great music and good brain food. Must go change my shoes now, they're full of mud.
This was so relaxing and refreshing I really liked this one Dan🎉!!!!!
Very good change of pace!!!
Love all your stuff!
Cool! Thanks, WalkManDan. 🙂
There is one in Austria too, in the Wachau! It is very nicely put along the Danube, a pretty hike !
This is actually a pretty cool different video, I like it! Still with planets which is of ofcourse amazing, but also different!
Have a great Sunday, Dan! Greetings from the Netherlands!
Great walk Dan can't beat a day out with an OS map and the kids.
In Anchorage, Alaska they have a scale solar system walk downtown! It’s a great way to see the city and it’s cool!👍👍😁😁
There is a trail like this near Zuerich (up a mountain) where the Sun and planets' sizes are on the same scale as the distances they are apart. Really brings home how far away they are from each other!
Lovely countryside! I would love to spend some more time in England.
Head to York where there is scale solar system, plus bits of hardware along the trans pennine trail. Covers six miles from memory.
Very enjoyable video, Dan. Great choice of background music, too.
I would love to have that idea in a park near me. Thanks for this!
I did my own Solar System walk a couple of decades ago. I even went the extra distance to measure out the length of my stride and calculated how many paces I needed to walk for each planet. Then I started at the river park near my home and walked along most of the northern half of it. The full walk (including Pluto, which hadn't been reclassified yet) was about 2km, give or take, and was a serious eye-opener. And yes, the difference between the inner and outer planets is quite stark.The fact that the Sun would have been about basketball-sized and way too small to see at that distance (discounting the interference of terrain) was also a bit unnerving.
I did enjoy this very much, and would love to do this walk, or one similar. I really like when someone creates a "purpose" for a walk that stimulates the mind and body. When I lived in Houston, TX, USA, I would often go to the science museum where outside they had a straight line path scale model of the solar system, where the museum itself was the sun, and they put metal discs in the pavement for each planet at a scale size and distance. Pluto was included as this was years ago.
Dan, you are so lucky you don't have RSI, I could not hold a pole with a camera for 5 minutes. Keep safe and your walking is a fresh breeze, I can smell it. Thanks for your nice video's all the time, I love them.
I'm shattered after that Dan. 😂😂. I'm having a brew and a toasted currant teacake. 😄👍🏻. If you ever do the Pennine way -which I live on - I'll also watch. Lol.
Dan "We're off to Uranus!" Oh my Dan you made me blush
Very cool. Would have been nice to have a scale representation of each planet at the stops. Thanks!
Really Enjoyed this. More. More. More.
There's a fantastic solar system trail in Eugene Oregon; I've walked it many times myself, The sun and planets are all to scale in both distance and size; and the trail it's self is paved and well maintained and runs along the river. I highly recommend it if you're ever out that way. It starts in Alton Baker park.
I bet there are more stars in the universe than leaves on all the trees we saw on your journey through our solar system. Cool video, I do like the outdoor venues on occasion, adds a bit of freshness and life to the information. Thanks Sciman
By a long long way, there are more stars in the observable universe than leaves on those trees.
There's a travelling one called Our Place In Space that went round Northern Ireland and Cambridge last year. I did it on my bike when it was in Northern Ireland. They used the North Down coastal path and it had scale models of the sun and planets set up alone the way and included Pluto. I started at Pluto and finished at the Sun 10km away. It felt like I was flying into the solar system and even the distance from Pluto to Neptune was staggering. At times, Pluto is also closer to Uranus than Uranus is from the sun. The distance between Uranus to Saturn is about the same as the distance between Saturn and the sun. It really makes you appreciate the scale of it all.
Lovely and educational walk! 👍🏿
This was fantastic, more videos like this please.
I'm very keen on maps too. Before retirement, I got the most satisfaction from work, when I had to use, and at times create, a map. USGS 7.5 minute quad sheets were my favorites.