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• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s just our bias talking. There’s certainly many other wonderful events we missed by a couple million years. We just think the moon size is special because of this coincidence.

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  • harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Like the dinosaurs probably being around while the earth still had rings, right?

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I didn’t know that fact, but yeah

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• zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Earth’s orbital distance has pretty much always been “perfect” though. It hasn’t really changed much since it’s formation 4-5 billion years ago.

  Unless you mistyped and you’re talking about the moon’s orbital distance? In which case, it’s actually kind of the opposite of what you’re claiming. It’s estimated that life first popped up pretty close to when the planet and moon finished forming, at which point the moon’s orbital distance would have made it appear larger than the sun and probably fully obscure the sun + it’s corona during an eclipse.

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  • volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I did mean the distance between earth and moon, thanks for correcting!

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s the ratio of orbital distances being perfect for total solar eclipses, so it’s technically both orbital radii

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• PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A still more glorious dawn awaits Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise A morning filled with 400 billion suns

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