Comment on Sea Level
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I get similar feelings about earth when I can see the moon during the daytime. Something about seeing it with clear craters against the blue sky makes it feel much more like we’re just floating in space with a cratered barren partner.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
And the sci-fi cliche is to have enormous moons filling the sky, but realistically, ours is comically large. Even planets in our solar system mostly see moons the way we see those planets. You get a dot.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
Only Pluto and Charon got us beat.
At least in terms of lower mass difference between the two bodies, and the distance the barycenter is moved from the center of the larger body.
[Edit: … maybe Eris and Dysnomia come close too. … and worth another mention that Jupiter tugs the barycenter further from Sol than Luna does from Earth. But all that’s a different beast from visual size.]