claim_arguably@lemdro.id to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoWhat's a scientific fact that sounds made up but is 100% real?message-squaremessage-square190linkfedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down14
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minus-squarestate_electrician@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·13 hours agoI looked up the circumference of a football and it said about 70cm. As the moon is about 10 times the circumference of the earth away, that’d put the moon at 7m away.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoA 70cm diameter soccer ball (>2 ft across) would be kinda fun. Except headers the CTE would be even worse!
minus-squarepodian@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours 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-up1·5 hours agoYeah it’s a weird way to make the distances sound shorter than pi*(a measurement we all can visualize).
7 meters?
I looked up the circumference of a football and it said about 70cm. As the moon is about 10 times the circumference of the earth away, that’d put the moon at 7m away.
Diameter or circumference?
A 70cm diameter soccer ball (>2 ft across) would be kinda fun. Except headers the CTE would be even worse!
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).