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To steal a program name from NPR, as it were. Someone at work sent this around yesterday, which is a sequence of diagrams that illustrate the size of the Earth in the, you know, greater scheme of things:

The Size Of Our World

Here's one of the figures, but really, just go look at the whole thing:



I don't know about you, but many times I've read attempts to describe this, along the lines of "If the sun were a bowling ball, then Earth would be ...." Of course, this doesn't give you a sense of the distances between planets, which often involve phrases like "football field" and "New York to Los Angeles." That will have to be a separate diagram, I guess.