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"The Moon diameter (approximately equal to the distance from New York to Las Vegas)" Imagine how glorious and huge the Earth must look like from the Moon.
by sci_prog 4y ago
"The Moon diameter (approximately equal to the distance from New York to Las Vegas)"
Imagine how glorious and huge the Earth must look like from the Moon.
- yrgulation 4y agoAnd how gloriously dumb human kind looks like considering we are fighting petty wars over resources we could get from space in unlimited amounts.
- NickRandom 4y agoNo need to imagine, have a look at https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1249.html https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1... and https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_623.html https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_6... I would have linked to the 'Blue Marble' picture but that was taken mid-flight rather than from the moon itself.
- sci_prog 4y agoThe photo doesn't do it justice tho. Just like a photo of the full Moon low on the horizon doesn't look anywhere close to what my eyes are seeing. Now imagine a full moon, with a diameter roughly 4 times as big, that's how big the Earth is looking back from the moon. North America itself is the size of the full moon. Pretty wild to think about.