Comment on Sun God

ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It doesn’t exactly unsettle me, but pondering the mind-boggling scale of celestial bodies and the cosmos can certainly be… humbling, I guess?

  I had a co-worker a while back who couldn’t talk about the great scale of the universe cause he’d get freaked out. It didn’t come up much, but when it did, he’d be like, “Please stop, it’s stressing me out” so we’d change the subject.

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• fishos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Less about size and more about size and relative distance. Think about being on Mercury and the entire sky is blazing sun.

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  • BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    on Mercury and the entire sky is blazing sun

    I’ve never thought about this and holy shit

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    • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s not the case though. Sure the sun would seem bigger on mercury but it’s not godda fill the entire sky.

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  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, nothing on Mercury survives. At night it’s -170 degrees Celsius and +430 degrees at day.

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    • Lyrl@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There was a time people thought Mercury would have some “twilight” acreage that was always at habitable temperatures. Then we learned that, while yes it is tidally locked with the Sun, it is locked in a 3:2 resonance so it does rotate with respect to the sun, and everywhere gets both scorched and frozen to uninhabitability.

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      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So we just need movable habitats like in Howl’s Moving Castle or Mortal Engines

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    • Welt@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Those are some mercurial tempera…tures

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• LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s very hard to convey the size of the sun in a photo. On earth, it isn’t bigger than the moon. I don’t think I’ve ever seen, in a real photo, just how massive the sun is. I absolutely dwarfs a planet, which is kind of chilling. I’ve never seen a photo that shows anything further away from the camera than a planet AND that much bigger.

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• Zess@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Right, I feel like no astronomer should be unsettled by just a picture of our solar system.

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• Klear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’re not invited to my birthday party.

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