I gotta admit though that it's a pretty awesome coincidence that the moon is the size and at a distance that makes it look approximately the same size as the sun and allows us to have amazing looking eclipses.
But the moon is slowly drifting away from the Earth so it will not be true in the relatively near future.
What if the earth and moon hung out a bit more and developed some better shared hobbies or something? Can we heal this relationship and stop this drifting-apart problem?
How many centuries of science progress do you think we lost with this “awesome coincidence”?
A bigger or smaller moon in the sky would have probably made the mechanism of the solar system a little more obvious for sure.
we have gained from this awesome coincidence. A solar eclipse was used to prove einstein's theories the first time. This coincidence was exactly what they needed to observe the stars which appear very close to the sun, without the sun's light washing them out, and measure how much their light was bent by the sun's mass. Too big or too small and it would have taken much longer to prove.
Only for this specific eclipse. Sometimes the moon is closer, so it completely shrouds the sun and we get to see the ghosty heliosphere of illuminated gasses. Other timed the sun is smaller and we get a ring of fire. Curiously sometimes Mercury gets in the way, but it's so far away, and so close to the sun it appears as a tiny black dot.
But the earth (and most of the solar system) is so tiny it barely exists. Jupiter retains a tiny bit of mass, to the sun, we are microbial. We humans are fleas on fleas.
Pretty sure the sun is way more than seven times brighter than the moon
Edit: after a quick internet search, the sun looks to be about 400,000 times brighter than the moon
Technically, TECHNICALLY, the Sun is infinitely brighter than the Moon since it emits no light at all ☝️
Technically, TECHNICALLY, TECHNICALLY, moon absorbs a lot of the incoming sunlight and a lot of the light from the moon is black body radiation instead of straight reflection. Moon does emit light.
Not infinite, the moon has a temperature.
The moon has an albedo of roughly 6% and is so small compared to the sun. So yep 400,000 times checks out
It is actually quite interesting how similar in perspective-skewed size the sun anf moon are.
Depends a lot on the date/time, the moon's size in the sky can shift a LOT based on a lot of factors to being a fraction of the sun's size to being much larger than the sun (or I think supermoons look bigger than the sun, idk)
I got to see 2 eclipses this year, and they were very different due to the relative size of the moon appearing smaller in August than in April.
FYI, annular eclipse WAY less-cool.
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The burger is bigger than the moon and the sun.
I mean, it's possible if the burger is American. Unless the car is also American.
They could actually be one in the same:
and its taste is sevenfold tastier
I would say that a burger is at least sevenfold tastier than a car.
But the burger in question looks like shit, so who knows
Please do not attempt to eat the sun.
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Somebody slap an ifunny.com metadata on it!
Anyway, if that was really shot on a 25mm, then it's cropped massively, rendering the metric useless anyway.
I forget some people went to the Rocket The Raccoon school of perception.
I agree with who made the meme. Their angular size is the same.
That's a bun. If it was a burger, you're doing burgers wrong. 😊
insert small, far away father Ted clip
Lol another "wtf" from the bible.
Not exactly, book of Enoch is not part of the Bible, it's an Ethiopian thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch
None of the three books are considered to be canonical scripture by the majority of Jewish or Christian church bodies.
Haha Oh.
That’s just a muffin not a burger.
I don't know how they make muffins where you live, but they make them wrong.
