Space - named so for a reason

I found this. http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/. If the sun was the size of a cantaloupe melon, and it was sat in the forecourt of Charing Cross Station, then the earth would be just over the road, and a millimetre in diameter. Both of them would be trampled by tourists. It gets more interesting later though. Jupiter would be sat on St Martin in the Fields, and would be the right size to play table football with. Pluto would be about the size of a largeish dust particle. It would probably be indistinguishable from the particles being belched out of a taxi outside that theatre where they used to show Les Mis, which is roughly where it would be. The nearest star would be about 2,000 miles away from the melon, so we're talking Rekjavik or somewhere in the Ukraine perhaps. It too would be the size of a cantaloupe melon. Sirius, the Dog Star, would be about 4,500 miles away. Even with a typical star the size of a cantaloupe melon, the galactic centre would be 14 million miles away, slightly further away than the sun is in real life.

Betelgeuse, a Red Giant, would be around 45m in diameter, so it would comfortably fill that theatre where Pluto was. (Imagine one of those next to a cantaloupe melon sized sun, and then tell us more about Global Warming).

The speed of light would be 2.5cm per second, at this scale. Light would take more than two weeks to cross the inside of the M25 from North to South. (Insert bad traffic joke here). Light from the melon at Charing Cross would take a whole year to reach the Scottish Highlands. (Insert 'grim up north' joke here).

Aren't you glad the Sun isn't the size of a cantaloupe melon?