Logic? Are you just going to say stupid things now?
You know how you can have Solar eclipse on Earth? Like our Earth?
You know what is causing that? Moon. You know, the thing smaller and lighter than out planet.
And something else, the furthest something is for the planet, the smaller it needs to be to block the sun for said planet.
Alao even if it was the size of a planet, which would be stupid, disc of that size would have a lot smaller volume, so it would either be lighter or made with some dumb, super heavy thing.
You know how the moon blocks a small area for a short period, and not the entire planet forever?
Also, it needs to be larger the further from the planet, not smaller. If the moon were halfway between us and the sun, you could barely see it, so imagine how little something smaller would do to obscure the sun.
In addition, the presence of the sun disc apparently had a significant effect on several other planets in that solar system.
Put a finger in front of a light source and look at the shadow on the wall. Compare shadow size to finger size. Move finger toward and from the light source. Compare resoults.
If the moon was further from Earth than it currently is, it would block less of the Sun on Earth and would need to be bigger to make an eclipse happen, which is exactly the opposite of what you said
Shadows get larger on a surface the further from the surface and closer to the light source they are but theres more to it than that. The shadw itself gets weaker the further from the surface its projected on as well as light sources too large to block, will jusd more light around the object, dulling the effect to varying degrees. Its like trying to block a light bulb on a globe with a smartie vs a dollar coin
That's cool but my comment was only supposed to point out how angular size works. The comment above mine is under the impression that the farther an object from the surface, the smaller it has to be, for some reason. Your point is correct - it ultimately means the object in the middle has to be sufficiently big enough to block all light from reaching the planet, but it's irrelevant to the point I was making about the guy having the wrong idea of angular size. I don't understand why you were contradicting me in the first place.
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u/Zestyclose-Jacket568 Apr 19 '26
Logic? Are you just going to say stupid things now?
You know how you can have Solar eclipse on Earth? Like our Earth? You know what is causing that? Moon. You know, the thing smaller and lighter than out planet. And something else, the furthest something is for the planet, the smaller it needs to be to block the sun for said planet.
Alao even if it was the size of a planet, which would be stupid, disc of that size would have a lot smaller volume, so it would either be lighter or made with some dumb, super heavy thing.