2761: "1-to-1 Scale"

[ratammer]

Title text: There's a version that shows the planets with no cropping, but it's hard to find a display that supports it.

I was very confused, looked up the explanation, and am still quite confused. Are these parts of the surface of the planets?

[somitomi]

I was very confused, looked up the explanation, and am still quite confused. Are these parts of the surface of the planets?

I think so

[LingEarth]

Yes. It's like Randall did this:

1. Draw a 1:1 (i.e. full-scale) picture of Earth. Easy!
2. It's 25,000 miles across, and he doesn't have a screen that big, so he crops it to fit on the screen. The portion you can see is just a little 2-inch patch of ground, too small to even see the planet's curvature.
3. Repeat for the other seven planets.
4. He can't put them all side by side in the cropped version, so instead he just takes the eight surface pieces, rotates them, and layers them on top of each other, with a patch of sky in the middle.