You don’t mention the Antares launch failure yesterday (oooo! explodey!), you don’t mention the Chang’e5 moon mission a few days ago which not only carries the first ever privately-run lunar mission but also which just sent back a totally sweet Earthrise-type photo, but you do copy this daft thing off Reddit?
Feck’s sakes lads. Dropping the ball there a bit.
(Besides, you put all the planets in the solar system in that position and that much mass inside Roche limits would shatter every last one of them into tiny bits that would then slowly aggregate into one enormous planet, unless it managed to amass enough material to turn into a dwarf star… so you’ve actually covered that story way too soon, you missed all the cool bits)
:P
rotide
Not only that, but its 3 days old which means its been all over facebuke at this point and loads of us have seen it 3 times already!
smoothlikemurphys
it was originally posted on Reddit about a year ago
Tony
Scientists have known about this for decades. I first saw it in 1745. This was on facereddit four million years ago…Jaysus tonight
andyourpointiswhatexactly
I just know of (the starship) Antares from Star Trek.
I’m adorkable!
Oh wow, just working it out (Beep doop deep), that means they all fit with 0.2% of the distance left to spare. The Earth Moon relationship is just awesome. There’s also the weird coincidence that from the surface of the earth the moon and sun appear to be exactly the same radius. That’s purely a coincidence but does mean we see eclipses.
You’d see eclipses regardless of the moon and sun’s apparent sizes (we see them on other planets in the solar system fairly often). It’s *total* eclipses you’re thinking of.
munkifisht
As soon as I posted I wanted to edit. I meant eclipses the way we do. The apparent size of the moon could be much larger than the sun and you would still see total eclipses. loads of minor planets like Pluto, Eris, Quaoar and Orcus probably have total eclipses (although in most cases you wouldn’t notice as their far out in the Kuiper belt)
Mikeyfex
And the bit about the moon rotating, as it orbits the Earth, at a speed that means we only ever get to see one side of it.
All the planets we know about…
Ah, here.
You don’t mention the Antares launch failure yesterday (oooo! explodey!), you don’t mention the Chang’e5 moon mission a few days ago which not only carries the first ever privately-run lunar mission but also which just sent back a totally sweet Earthrise-type photo, but you do copy this daft thing off Reddit?
Feck’s sakes lads. Dropping the ball there a bit.
(Besides, you put all the planets in the solar system in that position and that much mass inside Roche limits would shatter every last one of them into tiny bits that would then slowly aggregate into one enormous planet, unless it managed to amass enough material to turn into a dwarf star… so you’ve actually covered that story way too soon, you missed all the cool bits)
:P
Not only that, but its 3 days old which means its been all over facebuke at this point and loads of us have seen it 3 times already!
it was originally posted on Reddit about a year ago
Scientists have known about this for decades. I first saw it in 1745. This was on facereddit four million years ago…Jaysus tonight
I just know of (the starship) Antares from Star Trek.
I’m adorkable!
http://youtu.be/NCWunnJXdm0?t=2m45s
Inspired me to watch the lunar landing simulation again. wechoosethemoon.org
Incredible achievement
Cool website.
Kubrick surpassed his work on 2001 with the moon ‘landings’. Sure it’s why OJ was framed doncha know?
Strangely satisfying…
take that atheists!
I laughed proper, thanks :)
Oh wow, just working it out (Beep doop deep), that means they all fit with 0.2% of the distance left to spare. The Earth Moon relationship is just awesome. There’s also the weird coincidence that from the surface of the earth the moon and sun appear to be exactly the same radius. That’s purely a coincidence but does mean we see eclipses.
You’d see eclipses regardless of the moon and sun’s apparent sizes (we see them on other planets in the solar system fairly often). It’s *total* eclipses you’re thinking of.
As soon as I posted I wanted to edit. I meant eclipses the way we do. The apparent size of the moon could be much larger than the sun and you would still see total eclipses. loads of minor planets like Pluto, Eris, Quaoar and Orcus probably have total eclipses (although in most cases you wouldn’t notice as their far out in the Kuiper belt)
And the bit about the moon rotating, as it orbits the Earth, at a speed that means we only ever get to see one side of it.
Love that sh!t.
Here’s the other side, as taken by the latest Chinese moon mission (Chang’e 5, the one carrying the first private lunar mission):
http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/earth/earth-and-the-moon-from-change5t1.html
Now *that* is a photo to ooh and aah over…
Unless it’s an humongous phallic shaped object, I won’t be oohing and aahing, but thanks all the same.
Hah. Quality Anne. Cheers Mark, hadn’t seen that before.
God left the 8,000km gap for tea-bagging Gabriel.
This is true.
It came to me in a dream.
This solar system is bullshit. Trust me.
Except Pluto is a planet.
Not in the last few decades it’s not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3cDdGKqp8E
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/02/pluto-planet-solar-system/16578959/