claim_arguably@lemdro.id to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoWhat's a scientific fact that sounds made up but is 100% real?message-squaremessage-square259linkfedilinkarrow-up1210arrow-down15
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minus-squarepodian@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 days agoAll Very true facts. I admit I was and am still taken aback by the measurement and extrapolation of linear distances using… circumference.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 days agoYeah it’s a weird way to make the distances sound shorter than pi*(a measurement we all can visualize).
minus-squarestate_electrician@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoYou could calculate it more accurately, of course. But the relationship between earth’s circumference and the distance to the moon is roughly 1:10, purely by coincidence, making it easy to calculate an estimate when scaling earth up or down.
All Very true facts. I admit I was and am still taken aback by the measurement and extrapolation of linear distances using… circumference.
Yeah it’s a weird way to make the distances sound shorter than pi*(a measurement we all can visualize).
You could calculate it more accurately, of course. But the relationship between earth’s circumference and the distance to the moon is roughly 1:10, purely by coincidence, making it easy to calculate an estimate when scaling earth up or down.