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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
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As described in Bill Bryson's most excellent book "A short history of nearly everything":
"Where Earth is the size of a pea, and the solar system were drawn to scale, Jupiter would be a thousand feet from a pea-sized Earth and Pluto would be a mile and a half. You wouldn't be able to see Pluto because it would be about the size of a bacterium. Scale matters."