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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The sun is 1.4 million kilometres in diameter, and it is surprisingly hard to throw something into it.

    The more important question is how much of our night sky the moon takes up, and the answer is only 0.5 degrees.

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    • TxzK@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How much is that in hamburgers? Sorry I only understand freedom units

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      • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Approximately .075 hamburger at arms length

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      • Ludrol@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        0.5° is 0.00873 radians

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      • JayDee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Turkey at distance is the proper measure here. That’s a Turkey at I’d reckon 10 football fields.

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      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Degrees are the freedom unit!

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  • ech@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    More importantly, the full moon occupies 0.00077% of our sky, and is moving at 1.022 km/s around the earth. Suffice to say, if you land on the moon, you’ve done something incredible.

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    • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s a funny meme, but a basic understanding of physics reaaaallly flips it on its’ head.

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      • orphiebaby@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A basic understanding of physics

        Just “a basic understanding”, yeah

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  • darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Having played Kerbal Space Program, orbital mechanics and ballistics make that diameter a lot smaller than one might anticipate. It’s pretty easy to fuck up.

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This gave me flashbacks to being a new Kerbal Space Program player.

    Someday I’ll rescue Jeb from the far his awkward Solar orbit.

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    • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There is a one button solution to lost Kerbalnauts…

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      • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        True

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      • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A final stage that ejects a gas tank into the cockpit?

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was in a band called Awkward Solar Orbit. We had a very bright outlook but even we knew we weren’t going anywhere.

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  • Sekrayray@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah. But then you remember that space is big—so it’s pretty damn easy to miss.

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    • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Like really, really big

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      • lengau@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

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  • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I did the perfect shot, but then it just move out of the way >=\

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  • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Counterpoint:

    Orbital semimajor axis of the moon (basically the orbit radius): 384400 km

    Subtract earth’s radius: becomes 378000 km above earth’s surface at mean sea level.

    Moon radius: 1737.4 km

    tan^(-1) (1737.4 / 378000) = 0.26 degrees

    Conclusion: at best, assuming the moon is directly overhead and any glancing contact is a success, you can deviate maximally 0.26 degrees from a dead centre hit to hit the moon.

    Good luck with that.

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    • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you for doing the math on that.

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      • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’re welcome! I thought it would be in the spirit of this community to put numbers to it, so that’s exactly what I did.

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  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then you remember that he’s in a 2’407’100 km void.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ok. What country uses apostrophes instead of commas? I had thought that India’s messed up comma system was the most irritating notation possible. I had never seen this notation.

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      • nxdefiant@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        1,00,000

        what in the actual hell.

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      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        German? The appostrophe for thousands, the dot for fractions. Using commas in numbers is the weird thing.

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  • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean sure but the moon occupies less than 1% of the celestial hemisphere and its moving

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  • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You could easily fuck it up more. Like, shoot in the opposite direction, or shoot for the sun. Hell, you could just blow the rocket up altogether. Guys, it’s so easy to fuck it up waaayyy more.

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  • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like someone hasn't considered the challenges of achieving escape velocity...

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  • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do not underestimate the amount of “Hold my beer” that people possess. :-P

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  • spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob#Missing_steel_bore_cap

    WE CAN SHOOT THE MOON

    WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY

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    • reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We just need to wait for a full moon so we don’t miss.

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  • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah we’ll escape velocity >: (

    YOU DO IT

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  • AOCapitulator@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And with the gravity well it’s even larger than that

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