4mo ago

That's a big burger

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OK but it’s pretty cool that the moon is just far enough and just the right size relative to Earth and the sun to give us all those rad eclipses.
EDIT: Also I tested and this burger is the same size as a Canadian one dollar coin.
- I read somewhere that this phenomenon is so unlikely that if we ever need to represent our planet in an intergalactic context, the solar eclipse would be a good candidate for a symbol to put on a flag [citation needed]
  
  I’m down and anyone who isn’t hasn’t seen a total eclipse yet. I saw my first one last year and by the time it finally came up I was starting to be a little fed up of hearing about it and slightly skeptical about how big of a deal it was. Then the day came, it got dark in a way my senses were not ready for and finally Totality happened, I saw the diamond ring with my own eyes and I lost my marbles at how fucking deeply existential this moment felt. 10/10 would watch again
  
  I’m in the UK so didn’t see the last one but during the previous one I found looking around at the darkness and observing how all the birds went quiet was a bigger deal than the actual eclipse of the sun. I mean that was still really cool, but the dark and stillness was uncanny.
  
  Sorry, but a similar design is already taken by the planet where everyone's obsessed with The Ring
  
  Iain M. Banks wrote a book on that. Inversions I think.
- Because the moon is moving away very slowly there will be a last total solar eclipse at some point. We're lucky to have such good ones currently
- EDIT: Also I tested and this burger is the same size as a Canadian one dollar coin.
  You mean a Loonie.
  SMH.
  
  You’re right I should use the scientific names for things in this community.
  
  Accuracy is important. Precision, too. Don't mix them up!
  
  What a guy, eh?
  
  More like hoser.
  
  sorry
- That's just what CSA and NASA want you to think. /flerf

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