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.
Phobos is just not very aesthetically constructed.
Wife: “Does this dress make me look fat?” Me, a discerning scientist: “You’re just not very aesthetically constructed.”
Some people find hydrostatic equilibrium aesthetically pleasing.
You can’t fool me, those are just the cookie monster’s eyes
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.
Imagine eclipses in the very early ages of life on land. It would be like Pitch Black.
The creatures in Pitch Black had a more equitable society, prove me wrong
Americans are insane. I don’t want to stereotype, but who the fuck needs a burger the size of a car?
😂
I mean it’s almost the size of that apartment building in the back.
(Or is it fore? Never quite grok’d any of that perspective stuff…)
It is still a wonder of nature though that they appear the exact same size in our sky, allowing perfect eclipses
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.
actually the part that i am scratching my head at is the sevenfold brighter bit.
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.
I know human perception is logarithmic. I’m interested why it was thought it was 7x brighter. “Sevenfold as the seven days in one” it seems?
I think sevenfold means
n^7notn*7.I didn’t know about logarithmic perception, that’s interesting! I bet you’re right about 7x being chosen due to the significance of the number seven in the Bible.
Dude thought he was in orthographic view.
That’s about the size, where you put your eyes
We’re dealing with a class of people who genuinely think Sesame Street is a commie psyop
I’m currently reading “The sword of Dawn” manwha. There, the planet is closer to a low luminosity star, making sunset/rise way bigger.
