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[-] bdonvr 11 points 2 days ago

Actual fun fact though you can fit every planet in the solar system between the earth and the moon at the same time. Unlike this photo it's actually really far off.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Except the tidal forces from all those planets and Jupiter would probably be unpleasant

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

And the elephants won't like that either

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

To get a sense... take any ball as a scale model of Earth and roll it 10 times in one direction. That would be the scale distance to the moon.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Man, that would have to be something like 31.415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679 times the earth’s diameter…

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Well, approximated to some extent, yes.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Roll it how far each time? Are you saying roll 10x the distance of itself / i.e 10 complete rotations?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, 10 circumferences. Earth is about 24,000 miles in circumference. Moon is more than 240,000 miles distant.

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