Occasionally, once I opened “YouTube”, in recommended videos, I saw a video which name is “To Scale: The Solar System”. With the curiosity, I opened and watched the video. On a dry lakebed in Nevada, A team of LA filmmakers of people build a “true illustration of our place in the universe” -- the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits. At the beginning of the video, I was immediately attracted to it. It shows nothing else, but two sentences from James (James Irwin, Apollo 15). “Getting farther”, “it (Earth) shrank to the size of a marble”. Then the author describes what ordinary people’s conception of the scale of our solar system. After showing these ordinary picture, he started to explain his experience of building
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At first, the author shows some pictures of Earth and moon and our solar system that we always get from website or educational books. This is our conception of the universe, but the scale is not accurate. Because on a piece of paper, the planets will become microscopic. And if you want to adequately show what actually looks like, the only way to see the true scale model is to build one. Thus, the author started his action -- making “a more accurate view of the scale of our solar system”. Then, the video turns to his group’s building experience. In order to explain the reason why he spent a lot of time and energy doing this, after building the true scale of the solar system, he told everyone the purpose. With the image of Apollo program, he said, “That's what I really wanted to try and capture. We are on a marble floating in the middle of nothing.” As one of audiences, through the logic, I can totally know that his aim is to let all humans who have no chance to see what real size of our universe with their own eyes have an opportunity to feel what the true scale of the solar system. After I watched the video, I know the true size of our solar system, and why he want to build the model.
Next, *ethos*. The video begins with a quote from Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin. He was one of people who have actually seen the full circle of the Earth with their own eyes. Everyone who read his words, as well as getting the point what the video
At first, the author shows some pictures of Earth and moon and our solar system that we always get from website or educational books. This is our conception of the universe, but the scale is not accurate. Because on a piece of paper, the planets will become microscopic. And if you want to adequately show what actually looks like, the only way to see the true scale model is to build one. Thus, the author started his action -- making “a more accurate view of the scale of our solar system”. Then, the video turns to his group’s building experience. In order to explain the reason why he spent a lot of time and energy doing this, after building the true scale of the solar system, he told everyone the purpose. With the image of Apollo program, he said, “That's what I really wanted to try and capture. We are on a marble floating in the middle of nothing.” As one of audiences, through the logic, I can totally know that his aim is to let all humans who have no chance to see what real size of our universe with their own eyes have an opportunity to feel what the true scale of the solar system. After I watched the video, I know the true size of our solar system, and why he want to build the model.
Next, *ethos*. The video begins with a quote from Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin. He was one of people who have actually seen the full circle of the Earth with their own eyes. Everyone who read his words, as well as getting the point what the video