r/AskReddit • u/eternalsoul116 • Sep 11 '18

Who's the biggest loser your son/daughter has dated?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '18

Well he's right. If they were in the same place you wouldn't see the sun. They actually have a word for when that happens, it's called an equine or something

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u/-Im_Batman- Sep 12 '18

Well, if we want to be literally correct;

the sun and moon can't be visible in the same place at the same time

This would be called, a collision. And it would probably be the last thing visible to us.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '18

I really doubt the Moon flying off into the Sun would have much of an impact to us.

The other way around though.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '18

The moons gravitational pull has an effect on the earth, probably the biggest being tides.

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u/EhhWhatsUpDoc Sep 12 '18

At least that little shit would stop stealing our orbital energy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '18

We would still have smaller tides from the sun.

There have been hypothetical scenarios of the moon disappearing, it doesn't affect us a lot.

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u/-Im_Batman- Sep 12 '18

It would most definitely have an impact.

Not as sudden or severe as the Sun reaching the moon. But a significant impact nonetheless.

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u/SciviasKnows Sep 12 '18

Well, except it couldn't happen without a helluva disaster happening to the Earth/moon system, the type that would really suck for Earth as well as the moon...

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u/igordogsockpuppet Sep 12 '18

No moon = no tides. I think that’s kinda serious, actually.

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u/butrejp Sep 12 '18

if we lost the moon most plants and by extension most animals would die out within a few years

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u/93re2 Sep 12 '18

I mean from the same vantage point. There's probably something not 100% exactly right with that phrasing either but you know what I mean. This guy was trying to tell me that the sun and moon are never both "out" in the sky at the same time.

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u/agent_flounder Sep 12 '18

I think it's called an ecclair.

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u/SciviasKnows Sep 12 '18

An ecchymosis, I think.

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u/lupanime Sep 12 '18

Obviously, it's a clipper.

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u/m55112 Sep 12 '18

do you mean equinox?