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Is this mainstream news? Because its a script for children. The real story is that aliens never left, theyve disguised as humans, they walk among us, they mark and abduct, they target and cause pain, they kill humans and dump babies on mountains, they have bases underground and the entire moon.

YOU PEOPLE ARE THE CROP.

The aliens that telepathically "allow" the drip-feeding story to unfold, are basically bullshitting you.

Everyone knows what the story is, because they put 1 nugget in every science-fiction movie... it a technique called Predictive Programming. Now that youre accustomed to the idea, they think you won't be shocked when its revealed as true.

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

The volume of the sun is 1412000000000000000 km^3.

The volume of the moon is 21958000000 km^3.

sunvolume / moonvolume = ~6.4 million km^3.

You could fit more than 6 million lunas inside the sun (well, if you joined their volumes into one giant sphere).

So yeah, saying the moon is 1/400 the size of the sun is laughable.

Now what I think they meant to say is diameter. It's true: the moon's diameter is 1/400 of the sun's. And it's also true that the moon is about 1/390th of the way to the sun. But they worded that poorly

[–] Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

So yeah, saying the moon is 1/400 the size of the sun is laughable.

I personally think that the word size is ambiguous enough not to imply a volume ratio. Actually when the context is the apparent size of an object in the sky, I imagine that the diameter is the first thing that comes to mind. (Or to be more exact the second thing just after the apparent area of the object in my field of view which is directly related to the diameter.)

[–] m8052@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

The ratio of two volumes has no units. I'm afraid your argument is invalid /s