I gotta admit though that it’s a pretty awesome coincidence that the moon is the size and at a distance that makes it look approximately the same size as the sun and allows us to have amazing looking eclipses.
What if the earth and moon hung out a bit more and developed some better shared hobbies or something? Can we heal this relationship and stop this drifting-apart problem?
I gotta admit though that it’s a pretty awesome coincidence that the moon is the size and at a distance that makes it look approximately the same size as the sun and allows us to have amazing looking eclipses.
But the moon is slowly drifting away from the Earth so it will not be true in the relatively near future.
In 500-650 million years
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/01/11/as-the-moon-drifts-slowly-away-from-earth-will-there-eventually-be-a-last-total-solar-eclipse/?sh=7ed11ca8316a
Okay, not as near as I thought, although I did mean “relatively” compared to the age of the Earth.
Good save there
Or, you know, me admitting I was wrong but still clarifying.
What if the earth and moon hung out a bit more and developed some better shared hobbies or something? Can we heal this relationship and stop this drifting-apart problem?
And the sun is expanding, too.
May take a while but if you look closely you will notice. Just wait.
I was concerned about my eyes so I asked google before.
Gemini said it is ok to stare at it
I followed it’s instructions and glued my eyes open!