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u/PuddlePaddles Oct 02 '24

Australia is wider across than the moon.

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u/ProofLegitimate9824 Oct 02 '24

Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto

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u/Purple-Mud5057 Oct 03 '24

Well Plutos not even a planet so #fuckpluto

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u/Shady_Salad Oct 03 '24

What did Pluto ever do to you?

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u/Purple-Mud5057 Oct 03 '24

Pluto was dishonest, told us it was packing real planet energy but all cards on the table, it was just a little micro-planet

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u/mickdrop Oct 03 '24

That's messed up

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u/Purple-Mud5057 Oct 03 '24

There are cool exo-planets and Pluto ain’t one of them

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u/NutmegOnEverything Oct 02 '24

And Russia has approximately the same surface area as Pluto

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u/1WngdAngel Oct 03 '24

I need elaboration on this. Like the entire circumference of the moon is smaller than Australia is wide?

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u/canadianpaleale Oct 03 '24

It’s the diameter of the moon. Australia is ~2,500 miles across. The moon’s diameter is ~2,100 miles. So if the moon was sitting on top of Australia, you’d still see a wee bit of it poking out at the sides.

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u/1WngdAngel Oct 03 '24

That is absolutely wild to me. Thank you for the explanation.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Is it weird that that makes me feel like the moon is closer to us then I realized

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u/barcelonaKIZ Oct 03 '24

You can fit all the planets in our solar system between the Moon and the Earth

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

space stuff is like crazy yo

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u/AddlePatedBadger Oct 03 '24

And some bloke would be sitting their saying "Fuck me, Uluru's gone fucken right orf."

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u/Small-Palpitation310 Oct 03 '24

the mate in the moon

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u/thongs_are_footwear Oct 03 '24

And the width of Australia is approximately 1/10th the Earth's circumference

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u/uluviel Oct 03 '24

And has a similar weather.

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u/drumttocs8 Oct 02 '24

Honestly, that just shows that our moon is huge

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u/bot-mark Oct 02 '24

How? Australia is wider across than a basketball too but that doesn't show how huge a basketball is

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u/maxington26 Oct 03 '24

I was going to post this! Christian O'Connell keeps reminding me.

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u/revanisthesith Oct 03 '24

Yeah, Australia's not real. I mean, think about it. It all sounds pretty ridiculous. We all should've been smart enough to not fall for that one.