My favorite hockey blog (yes, I have a favorite hockey blog) talked about this and I thought it was fascinating. My Pittsburgh Penguins start their season out this October with a game in Sweden. They are playing in the Globe Arena in Stockholm. It’s the largest hemispherical building in the world, with a diameter of 361ft and volume of 21,188,800 cubic ft. But that's not the cool part.
The cool part is that the Globe represents the sun in the world’s largest to scale model of the solar system (1:20,000,000). All other planets of the solar system are represented by other precisely sized and distanced objects throughout Sweden. As an example of the distances between these models, the dwarf planet of Pluto can be found 300km from the Stockholm Globe Arena and has a diameter of 12cm.
Here are pictures of some of the planets.
Isn't that amazing?!?
A giant model of the solar system, to scale, spread across Sweden.
Impressive.
P.S. Today is the 3 year anniversary of me and Chris's first date. He remembered before I even said anything about it. I caught a good one;-)
5 comments:
happy anniversary. sounds like the swedes are very creative. still dont know if i can get into hockey. but i'll take your word for it on it's cool factor.
Since when are you a hockey fan? I fully support that decision but must say it comes as a surprise. Also surprising--that both of you remember the date of your first date. I'm proud of myself for even remembering what we did.
wow that's freakin awesome! I would love to go visit that solar system thingy. =)
It would be fine to put a link!
BOOYA SWEDEN!!
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