Without looking it up, what do think the distance of the Earth from the Moon is? Use a “O” and a “o” character to show it to scale, e.g.
O o
(this is not the correct answer!)
Without looking it up, what do think the distance of the Earth from the Moon is? Use a “O” and a “o” character to show it to scale, e.g.
O o
(this is not the correct answer!)
@RonJeffries ah, attached with string :D
O-------------------------------o
It's a bit of a trick question because it doesn't really fit in one line (depending on your client), but here's the approximate right distance:
O o
@t1 yeah, I discovered that as well, I just used dashes instead
O o
@thomasfuchs Oops mastodon ate all the spaces
@t1 pretty accurate!
@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
O-----------------------------------------------------------------------o
@dpnash @hosford42 that's fair but I think you're overthinking this lol
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.
@thomasfuchs My guess is that all the answers will be way too short, due to sane character limits.
@thomasfuchs
O––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––o
@thomasfuchs now do the earth and the sun …
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