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[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 127 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For those who don't know, Martian solar eclipses suck compared to ours. The near equal relative size of the sun and moon to Earth is why we get such awesome eclipses.

Perks of having a planet-sized object slam into your planet during its Hadean Eon.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

Phobos is just not very aesthetically constructed.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 57 points 2 months ago
[-] pyre@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

i thought the only thing we were supposed to phobic of was phobos itself

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

Wife: “Does this dress make me look fat?” Me, a discerning scientist: “You’re just not very aesthetically constructed.”

[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

See, that's fine the first time it happens. But after a couple of iterations you should have enough experimental data to know the answer that means you don't have to sleep on the couch.

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[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 months ago

Especially after we sent our space marines there to kill all those demons.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Only one will actually get the job done, though.

[-] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Space potato.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

You can't fool me, those are just the cookie monster's eyes

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Since our moon is moving away from us we’ll have these sorts of eclipses in the future. The fact that we’re living at a time when they’re the same apparent size is pretty amazing.

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Imagine eclipses in the very early ages of life on land. It would be like Pitch Black.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

The creatures in Pitch Black had a more equitable society, prove me wrong

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 66 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] murtaza64@programming.dev 29 points 2 months ago

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]

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 16 points 2 months ago

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

[-] SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] puttputt@beehaw.org 7 points 2 months ago

Sorry, but a similar design is already taken by the planet where everyone's obsessed with The Ring

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[-] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

EDIT: Also I tested and this burger is the same size as a Canadian one dollar coin.

You mean a Loonie.

SMH.

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[-] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 33 points 2 months ago

Americans are insane. I don't want to stereotype, but who the fuck needs a burger the size of a car?

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

I had lots of cars the size of burgers though, when I was a little child

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[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 months ago

Is flat earth still a thing? I haven’t been hearing as much about it lately but maybe people just stopped caring.

I do wonder how long a movement that can be easily disproven by literally anyone can sustain itself. I mean sure, the true believers will stay but if anyone can go out and confirm the roundness of the earth themselves it makes it a bit tough to keep people who are on the fence…

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 26 points 2 months ago

I think the vast majority of promoters online were trolls, and the vast majority of followers were morons

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

They moved on to qanon. That's not even a joke.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 months ago

You haven't heard as much from them because they are being drowned out by MAGAs. Though, TBF, the overlap between flat earthers and MAGAs is pretty large.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Don’t forget sovcits. I’m hearing more about them now and less about flat earth.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago

Sovcits are.... interesting.

There's an aspect of their philosophy that I get. Like there is a sort of magical incantation they say and proof you're immune from the law.

That's sort of how courts work. We're all about precedence, making sure that court rulings from before are applied fairly and equally. Knowing these rulings and how to apply them seems like magic to those of us who aren't attorneys.

And all law and court rulings are text that you can read, right? So anyone should be able to read and recite them, right?

I sort of agree with the logic in the sense that I absolutely hate how any court action almost requires the services of an attorney. No matter how right you are, you still have to spend money to prove it in court.

But the nonsense of not paying any taxes or not being held responsible for your actions....that is where I draw the line.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

There's actually a trip to Antarctica to see the midnight sun funded by globe earthers planned soon. Many flat earthers were invited, but most have chickened out and the rest are hedging their positions with "24 hour sun doesn't mean anything, even if we see it, it doesn't matter".

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

A friend of mine got into flat earth. He didn't care about proofs or anything like that. As far as I could tell, he was in it for the community.

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[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago

actually the part that i am scratching my head at is the sevenfold brighter bit.

[-] MadLegoChemist@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

I was curious about this too. From random web searching (Syfy.com), the sun is 200,000 times brighter than the moon in the visible light region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

It is still a wonder of nature though that they appear the exact same size in our sky, allowing perfect eclipses

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

It's a happy coincidence that we get to experience both total and annular solar eclipses. It wasn't always so, and it won't always be so. There was a first annular eclipse, and there will be a final total eclipse.

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[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago

I'm actually still convinced that Flats are just trolling the whole world and pissing their pants from laughing when noone looks.

These things can't be truly real and serious. They can't. No. Nonono.

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

There’s a fascinating documentary, Behind the Curve. It talks about how, for a lot of these people, it began with the thrill of having some secret knowledge that others don’t, and then found they had a community and felt included for the first time in their lives (for some of them). That sense of community is really important to humans, so now, just like religion, there is more binding people to the movement than just the hidden knowledge.

(If I’m remembering correctly. I may be conflating it, it’s been a while since I watched it.)

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[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 months ago

I never remember which one is the burger eclipse and which the car eclipse

[-] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 12 points 2 months ago

What is that? A car for ants?

[-] Raxiel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

A burger for Americans

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Flerfs can't understand scale, they can't understand 3d space, they can't understand distances, they can't understand pretty much anything. The world is scary for them, they deserve our pity AND scorn. If only they paid attention in school

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Flerfs can't understand scale, they can't understand 3d space, they can't understand distances, they can't understand pretty much anything. The world is scary for them, they deserve our pity AND scorn. If only they paid attention in school

They certainly deserve our pity. They’re lonely people who were never great in school and now get to think they’re smarter than others AND have found a community that accepts them.

Unfortunately the very pressures that made them susceptible to the flat earth movement and other conspiracies are the same pressures that keep them from accepting that they’re wrong. “Scorn” probably isn’t a useful tool, even if it feels like the right one (and they absolutely deserve it).

The Socratic method would be far more effective. Continue to ask them questions, accepting as a given that they’re intelligent people and treating them as such. Innocently interrogate them, with genuine interest, about the things they are saying until they reason themselves out of their positions.

But this will only work if they’re someone you know, most likely. Otherwise they’re likely to shun you the first time they come across a question that truly shakes their position.

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[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 8 points 2 months ago

Fun fact as a game dev I had to write this code a couple of times where I project the 3d stuff into 2d like that so when you tap with your finger or click I can do proper distance checks in 2d (what's closest to the finger?), even though it feels and acts 3d.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 8 points 2 months ago

Great, now I'm hungry for car : /

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Dude thought he was in orthographic view.

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago
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[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

how can I calculate the distance at which the sun filled my entire field of view?

[-] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

Theta = 1/2 human fov

r = radius of sun

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago

so simple (and not at all). Thanks.

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