Some years ago (it may still be there today but my GoogleFoo is failing) there was an amazing exhibit outside @Bristol (a science centre in Bristol UK, now called We The Curious) - you input the name of a planet and a big physical pointer just like those village signs would swing round and point in a direction. On the side of the pointer it’d say the number of miles to the planet.
It was a super cool juxtaposition of screen / digital / real and very thought provoking. The counter intuitive nature always got me and my kids: pointing down through the floor to Jupiter or whatever when one’s intuition is always that everything in the sky is “above you”.
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Some years ago (it may still be there today but my GoogleFoo is failing) there was an amazing exhibit outside @Bristol (a science centre in Bristol UK, now called We The Curious) - you input the name of a planet and a big physical pointer just like those village signs would swing round and point in a direction. On the side of the pointer it’d say the number of miles to the planet.
It was a super cool juxtaposition of screen / digital / real and very thought provoking. The counter intuitive nature always got me and my kids: pointing down through the floor to Jupiter or whatever when one’s intuition is always that everything in the sky is “above you”.
I wish I could find details of it on the web!
Well it’s still there! See https://maps.app.goo.gl/QAxCc2vKNrgAZH2QA?g_st=ic