• AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
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    11 days ago

    … what are they standing on? How come earth and moon are of relatively equal size from their vantage point? Does such a point exist?

    Am I overthinking silly anti-memes?

    Always have been

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      11 days ago

      There must be. When you’re standing on the moon, it goes on as far as the eye can see, and the Earth is a ball in the sky. The moon is 27% of the diameter of the earth, so o you need to be at a spot where the Earth is 3.7 (=1/0.27) times further away from you than the moon. That’s 50,789 miles above the moon’s surface, 188,110 miles above Earth.

      • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        But the percieved size of an object doesn’t change linearly. The points would still exist though just at a different place.