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It can look dumb, but I always had this question as a kid, what physical principles would prevent this?

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[-] Metostopholes@midwest.social 74 points 1 day ago

Your math is off. The Moon is about 384,400 KILOmeters from the Earth, not meters. So 116,485 seconds, or a bit over 32 hours.

[-] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 day ago

Oh right. I'll edit my comment

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