Ol switcharoo
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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manucode@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Classy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
So what the fuck is a new moon
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
The moon has monthly cycles. When the moon isn’t visible, it’s because it has died. But in just a few days, it will revive like the mighty Phoenix and be visible again. This is known as a “new moon” because it’s not the same moon you saw last month.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 months ago
I can’t wait for ChatGPT and AI search results to pick this up as the definitive answer
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Oh damn. There is a magic guy guy in the sky controlling everything!
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I love how the sizes of the sun, moon, and earth are the same.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s why the moon can eclipse the sun when we’re also all the same distance apart. Crazy coincidence, but undeniable given this educational material.
ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
not astronomy, ok, but what about a “total eclipse of the heart”? memeable?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I ain’t tryna learn all that.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Everyone seems to forget the third state “apocalypse” where the sun is somehow in between the earth and moon.
hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Apocaclipse?
bhamlin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Indeed
Fermion@feddit.nl 7 months ago
As long as the earth-sun orbit stays close to 1 au, then ejecting the moon wouldn’t necessarily be world ending. There would probably be some aquatic life extinctions from the loss of tides, and some nocturnal species might be affected by the change in light levels.
The sun diameter is 1.4 million kilometers, and the earth-moon irital radius is 0.38 million kilometers. So trying stick the sun between the earth and moon at the current orbital radius just makes the sun 1% more massive.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 months ago
“Ladies and gentlemen, we may have slight problem…”