• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
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    17 hours ago

    Because we automatically compare the moon with objects on the horizon and they makes it look big in our mind, but if you objectively compare it to the entire sky it’s small.

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      16 hours ago

      I don’t think that’s all. A friend and I spent half an hour debating whether an object was the moon or a huge billboard, because it was aligned with a building on the horizon. But I took a picture and it wasn’t nearly big enough to span the roof of the building we were looking at.