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pavel_lishin on June 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Year of the Moon in 2.5 Minutes - it wobbles mor...

I find it more amazing that the apparent size of the moon is very very close to the apparent size of the sun.

ColinWright on June 15, 2011 [–]

That won't be true forever. The Moon gets about 38 mm further away every year, so at some point there will be no more total solar eclipses, only annular eclipses.

Shame for future humans or trans-humans, but great for us to live at such a time.

indrax on June 16, 2011 | [–]

>trans-humans

If they care, they'll fix it.

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