Solar System "Game"

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Solar System "Game"

For the nerds among us:

http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/my-solar-system/my-solar-system_en.html

It's a solar system simulator. You can define and place all the bodies of the system and then watch how the gravity affects all of them. You can shun me for my nerdiness, but I've been playing with this for...well, let's just say "quite some time."

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Reminds me of Spirograph. (did you guys have that toy?)

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Don't have time to play now, but I'm saving it for later!

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Definitely sending this link to DH for his science class

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Tony wrote:
Reminds me of Spirograph. (did you guys have that toy?)

I spent tons of time with my Spirograph and my Shrinky Dinks!

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Every time I tried to get fancy, one of my planets would crash into the sun. I love that the sun wobbles from the planets. That's how they detect planets in far away solar systems.

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[waves his geek flag]

Wow...just WOW. That is SO COOL! Man, I could spend way more time with that than I would admit to...or maybe I already have awesome

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I messed with it for quite a while before I realized there were "presets" in the top corner that were really interesting.

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I tried to forever to get a moon to work before I figured out that the small one is a moon by default. How embarrassing!

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dsoup wrote:
Tony wrote:
Reminds me of Spirograph. (did you guys have that toy?)

I spent tons of time with my Spirograph and my Shrinky Dinks!

Shrinky Dinks! Rock on!

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I've also found that you don't want to leave a solar system running in another tab. I think over time it starts to consume a lot of memory. eek

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All right, going to try this out finally...