Because the moon is moving away very slowly there will be a last total solar eclipse at some point. We’re lucky to have such good ones currently
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luciole@beehaw.org 4 months ago
OK but it’s pretty cool that the moon is just far enough and just the right size relative to Earth and the sun to give us all those rad eclipses.
GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 4 months ago
EDIT: Also I tested and this burger is the same size as a Canadian one dollar coin.
You mean a Loonie.
SMH.
murtaza64@programming.dev 4 months ago
I read somewhere that this phenomenon is so unlikely that if we ever need to represent our planet in an intergalactic context, the solar eclipse would be a good candidate for a symbol to put on a flag [citation needed]
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
Iain M. Banks wrote a book on that. Inversions I think.