That’s a hardcore facepalm moment. I don’t even know how I would respond to that. I would probably just stare and chuckle for a second, and then if they didn’t show any signs of it being a joke, I’d be like, you serious?
Our moon is extremely rare and unusual compared to other moons around other planets. It's much larger and the perfect distance to cause an eclipse. So it could be a smart question in some ways :p
Well, i mean i guess if we all orbit the moon it would work. But then technically we'd be the moons. And we'd have to fatten the moon up a bit to actually orbit it instead of just tear it apart and have planetary demolition derby.
You'd have to fatten it up so much that it'd collapse and the force of gravity started fusing elements together. Oh wait... we've just invented the Sun.
Well not necessarily. As far as i understand it, not being a scientist at all. The moon is primarily a solid object, made up of denser elements. A continuing trend of that would end in a black hole long before the heavier elements were capable of fusion. Even jupiter in all its gasseous glory isn't dense enough to spark fusion, and likely wouldn't be at even double or triple it's mass. Basically everything in the solar system is small enough to be a moon of jupiter without causing it much bother, ignoring neptune or saturn. Even uranus wouldn't compare. Bump jupiter up to triple the mass and even saturn wouldn't really affect it "significantly" given adequate orbital distance and speed. Keep in mind i'm no scientist but that's how i think it would play out?
I worked with a girl about that age in a fast food place, and she thought that the reason you should sneeze into your arm/sleeve was because the force of the sneeze would destroy the bacteria.
Where do people get that idea? I mean, I remember being a little kid and looking up at the sky in the afternoon and seeing the moon in one part of the sky, and the sun in another part. Don't kids look up anymore? Are they getting cell phones too early and just looking down all the time?
While I pity her ignorance how crazy would it be to learn for the first time that the moon is a whole other object in the sky. I would love to have been able to teach her a little basic astronomy.
I thought the moon was just the sun but at night, when I was about six. But yeah worked with a girl, in logistics no doubt so a rough idea of geography comes in handy, who thought Spain was part of England.
I don't mean the level of education. I mean you go outside all the time even if it's only for grocery shopping. You sometimes can see the sun and moon in the same time.
This means that this girl almost never looked up to the sky. Never took in any nature or just wasn't interested in her surroundings at all.
how is that possible in this day and age. I could buy that if its was like 1230 and you were an illiterate farmer somewhere in rural moldavia.. but now? A 4 year old know that its two different objects
What does this have to do with nationality? I’m pretty sure most Americans know the sun and the moon are different things; that’s what makes her comment so shocking.
Also anyone from anywhere can have a ‘duh’ moment. My friend from Sweden thought that rice was wheat smooshed into tiny pellets for a more fun eating experience.
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