xkcd #3301: Stargazing 5

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xkcd #3301: Stargazing 5

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The sun and the moon appear the same size in the sky, even though in real life the sun is more than twice as big. Some call this lucky alignment coincidence; others say it's proof that sometimes things can be the same size.

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18107 46 points a month ago

"More than twice as big"

u telling me Julius Caesar, who has been dead for well over 70 years, made this salad?

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Redjard 4 points 24 days ago

There are more atoms in a single molecule of water than stars in the entire solar system.

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Cocodapuf 19 points a month ago

This has real Philomena Cunk energy.

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HonoraryMancunian 8 points a month ago

Birds of the sky lol

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RickRussell_CA 4 points a month ago

Someone call Phil Plait!

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jlow 1 point a month ago

I guess it's technically correct to say that the sun is "more[!!!] than twice as big" as the moon but kinda not really truthful?

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jlow 1 point a month ago path: 0 25962334 25962361, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 1
LodeMike 2 points 25 days ago

Nope. It's 400^3.

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