Adventure Rider
All you have to do is get to Australia first
Cana it really be that far to Uranus?
“Space is big,” wrote Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. “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.”
While clearly true, this did not discourage astronomer John Shobbrook from Coonabarabran near Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. To “give students and tourists a feel for the vastness of space and the fragility of the tiny planets – especially planet Earth,” he proposed building a model of the Solar System.