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This Massive To-Scale Model Of Our Solar System Will Blow Your Mind: WATCH

September 22, 2015 by Anthony Costello Leave a Comment

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Filmmakers Wylie Overstreet, Alex Gorosh and a few of their friends took on a hugely creative, and impressive, task of fittingly creating a to-scale model of our solar system in a 3.5-mile patch of desert known for hosting one of the most artistic festivals in the U.S.: Burning Man Festival.

Gorosh and Overstreet documented the process and techniques they used to create this massive model utilizing a mix of technology and agricultural techniques including drones, GPS coordinates, electrical lighting, a click wheel to measure distance and a makeshift farming harrow to create their model within a short 36 hours.

Gorosh and Overstreet’s video is a must watch on just how far apart we are from our celestial cousins using a patch of our Earth itself as the model, along with a video documenting everything that went into creating the model, below:

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