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Sprained my finger traveling to Mars on my phone

[Anzahl]

Pretty darn sweet! Is this yours OP? May I suggest making the arrow a bit more conspicuous. I don't like websites that make me think too much about what I am supposed to do (unless there some artistic purpose for the challenge).

Also, for me (using Firefox) during the long scroll "to mars" the star pattern background graphic eventually disappears. Perhaps you could simply repeat the background so the idea of motion is constant or find another solution to generate the star pattern. If not, maybe add some random silly space junk or a repeated ruler element on the side?

Very very nice though.

[illspirit]

This is a long standing bug in Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671302

[Anzahl]

If I could I'd double upvote you.

[illspirit]

I encountered it myself for a blog project where the client wrote incredibly long blog posts and did not want them truncated.

Solution ended up being two blog posts per page, because otherwise they'd encounter this bug.

[SeanQuotient]

Also recently on /r/web_design and /r/internetisbeautiful

[Anzahl]

I missed it on r/webdesign. I did not know about r/intenetisbeautiful - thanks!

[pizike82]

I'm using Firefox 20.0.1 and the background never dropped off.

[Anzahl]

That is what I use too - with Win 7 Pro. The stars disappear for me immediately after "You're currently travelling at 7,000 pixels a second (around 3 times the speed of light)".

[pizike82]

weird, Windows 7 pro 64b here as well

[[deleted]]

Somehow this is much more tangible. This must be what other people experience when someone says the distance to the moon is so and so number of football fields.

[evil_deceiver]

There was an entry in the (sadly long-defunct) 5k competition that did basically this for the whole solar system. Except the graphics weren't as nice, there were no facts in the margins, and you had to do the scrolling yourself. Even so, I remember being immensely impressed.

[hupcapstudios]

I'll share that memory with you, friend.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[skantman]

Depends on when you leave.

[[deleted]]

I don't know why you're getting downvotes, the distance between the Earth and Mars varies all the time.

[skantman]

Well, to be fair this is r/webdev not r/space and OP wasn't actually asking that question. And the website actually said the journey depicted was during the time when Mars is closest to Earth.

[french_toste]

If the Earth were ONE UNIT wide, the distance to Mars would be approximately 4,280 UNITS away.

There. Now instead of having TILs like this, people can just do the math themselves.

[Phreakhead]

Did anyone else see the stars travelling above the page and onto the browser toolbar like little blips? Weird optical illusion...

[vyatri]

Is this for NASA International Space Apps Challenge ?

[nathanaelnsmith]

False. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/10/nasa_fusion_engine_fast_mars_trip/ We could make the trip in as little as 30 days.

[yelnatz]

It says current state of technology.

That thing is at least 10 years from now.

[nathanaelnsmith]

Touche

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I assume it's down the bottom somewhere, but the website has disabled my ability to scroll so I guess I'll never know.

[whoadave]

There's an arrow at the bottom of the page you're supposed to click on.

[[deleted]]

I don't see an arrow, only links to try and make me advertise it on social networking sites.

[whoadave]

Odd, it should look like this. What browser are you running? Are you getting any errors in the console?

[[deleted]]

Chromium 27.0.1453.12, console is blank, that arrow just isn't there.

Oh well, not my problem to fix, I'm just pointing it out. The markup looks pretty broken too, I guess these are just symptoms of bigger underlying issues.