documentary · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM
To Scale: · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2015–2025).
SignalTube analysis
There are too few matching documentary videos tagged Cosmology & astrophysics for a stable peer comparison. This video has 1 distinct HN recommender across 1 recommendation month. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
33% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2015–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
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- Hacker News mention years
- 2015–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other documentary videos in Cosmology & astrophysics. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEMCurrent video | 1 | 1 | 33% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)documentary · melodysheep | 13 | 12 | 65% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Powers of Ten™ (1977)documentary · Eames Office | 9 | 8 | 45% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)”. Its short rationale: Mini-documentary building a true-to-scale solar system model.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Sweden Solar System”. Its short rationale: Scale model that gives a human sense of sizes.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama”. Its short rationale: Scale model of the solar system built in the Black Rock Desert.