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   Ron Jeffries (ronjeffries@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 07:56:36 JST Ron Jeffries

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs

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     Thong Kuah (t1@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 08:35:22 JST Thong Kuah

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     O o

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     Thong Kuah (t1@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 08:35:22 JST Thong Kuah

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Oops mastodon ate all the spaces

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     Thong Kuah (t1@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 08:39:40 JST Thong Kuah

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Ok! The picture I have in mind is that if someone was on stage holding a ball, the moon would be slight off-stage. So

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     David Nash (dpnash@c.im)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 10:46:56 JST David Nash

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     @hosford42 @thomasfuchs

     Also, the diameter difference between the Earth and the Moon is just under a factor of 4, so O and o don’t really represent the scale difference well. It’s more like O and the circle in Danish Å.

     Given that, it’s hard to answer the question as written. If you assign “O” to Earth’s diameter, you’ll get a different answer than if you assign “o” to the Moon’s diameter.

     So, boring but hopefully more accurate answer: The moon spans about half a degree in the (Earth) sky, which is about 1/120 of a radian, so the distance is approximately 120 Moon diameters, whatever symbol you choose to use for it.

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     Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 10:46:57 JST Aaron

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs My guess is that all the answers will be way too short, due to sane character limits.

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     Jason Forrest (tenlinesofcode@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 14:21:52 JST Jason Forrest

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     @thomasfuchs
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     Jason Forrest (tenlinesofcode@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 14:26:02 JST Jason Forrest

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs now do the earth and the sun …