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November 17, 2024 4 mins

Moon Week: The Sun is 400x bigger than the Moon and 400x further away

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Of the day, day day day day.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, do do do do do do.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
De Dude, that is gross.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
He's wiping out his drink bottle and this stuff that
came off it was black. I know that.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, there's black mole.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Its gut house is a guy who has never checked
once what the straw is like, but literally takes us everywhere.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, I've got a pump bottle today, I've lost my
drink bottle.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Pump.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I was going to ask if things are okay, Yeah,
you need to borrow some money home. The fact of
that the theme this week is the moon. Okay, oh
my god, so grand. At the moment this morning leaving home,
the moon was so bright, I was a shadow was
cast from me? What moonshadow? Moon shadow? Moonshadows?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
A song? Shadow?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Is that song? It's moon river, Moon River. Now there's
a song about a moon shadows.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
A marvelous names for a moon.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's a mother. What's moon? It's moons themed all week?
So what and this is I'm gonna start off with
an amazing fact is that the sun is four hundred
times bigger than the moon, but it's also four hundred
times further away. And that's why the Sun in the

(01:33):
moon looked the same size. Oh yeah, that makes sense.
How cosmically rare it is. Cosmic corner, Cosmic corner.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Get a bottle of this, cosmic.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Ornaments, glass ornaments, sorry, right, things to piercing smoke tobacco with.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yes, I like.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
If you have a little bit of tobacco. That's how
I my tobacco filter through water. M Yeah, this's cosmic
fact water you corner.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's not not a sponsor.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
It's just wild that we have an eclipse where the
two objects are the same size.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Because they're so far away.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Anywhere else in the in the Solar system, this wouldn't work. Yeah,
the planet with the moon, where the Sun and the
Moon look the same size, they either look significantly larger.
For example, I'm talking I'm talking Jupiter's moons. Yes, I'm
talking Saturn's moons.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Same moons. You can see they.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Are significantly closer, yes, to Saturn size wise that our moon,
and it makes the Sun look small.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Have you seen those pictures of like Saturn's moons and stuff,
And they're so close that you can see like the
texture of their moons from just standing.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yes, it's still close.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
So that's why we can have solar eclipses total solar
The perfect distances of the heart is because they they
the exact they appear the same size of the sky. Yeah,
that one's four hundred The son's four hundred times bigger,
but it's four hundred times further away.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
This this not only four hundred times bigger.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
In the Yes, in the scheme of things, I would have.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Thought that there was a bigger We've got a big
son when it's a huge sun, but in the sky, yeah,
it's I'm tripping on so it's so, I know, it
just blows your a cosmic corner.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Corner, these a var corner. We're in a completely different way.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
I'm the same.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
I just cannot even put numbers to it and distances
and relate it to something. I'm like, I can't. I
cannot with space. I just cannot.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Was like sending down with a pen and paper and
just your brains and been like, all right, how are
we going to get this rocket to the moon. We're
going to work out some angles. Oh I know, no, thanks,
we should just get up there and see. I reckon,
We'll go up for a look first.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Go out for a look.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
See. Yeah, see how Ricky you'll do a ricky, then
we'll come back look forward to more moon fats, including
travel to the moon.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh okay, yep.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
The fact of the day is moonweek staged.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
So wow.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
There's lots of people think so it.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Was staged because you could tell by the way that
the flag was flapping.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
But today's back to the day.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Is an absolute cosmic, cornic coincidence. The sun is four
hundred times book of the moon, but also four hundred
times further away. That makes them appear almost exactly the
same size in our sky.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Fact of the day, day day day day.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
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