Maybe the universe originated 10-20 billion years ago, in a Big Bang. A one-line scale model of the Solar System: (1 character-width = 12 million miles) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . . . ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- S M V E Mars asteroids Jupiter Saturn [ SMVE = Sun - Mercury - Venus - Earth ] At this scale, the sun is 1/12th of a character wide, while Jupiter and Saturn are really invisible, at 1/100th of a char. The Moon's orbit around Earth is about 1/20th of a character in diameter.
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