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Tauros
08/21/17 1:42:53 PM
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It's absurdly low odds of our natural satellite and our star being the same size in the sky from our vantage point, and to have them cross orbital paths at all. And the fact there are creatures on the planet that can observe it is even more absurd. Just one of those celestial things to appreciate.
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Canuklehead
08/21/17 1:48:15 PM
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Not even the only celestial body in our solar system that has total eclipses.
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EternalDivide
08/21/17 1:52:09 PM
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I'm going to piss off a lot of people with this.
But it's stuff like this (eclipse in general) and so many other things. The human body, natural wonders, the galaxy around us, life, etc. All these things that take a unfathomable amount of microscopic intricacies and forces all working together precisely to make everything exist in the way they do. And people out there expect me to believe it's all what it is by random chance that resulted from what's essentially an unexplainable space fart? No. There's something beyond us on a higher level at work.
But that's me. Feel free to hate.
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Medussa
08/21/17 1:58:57 PM
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EternalDivide posted...
I'm going to piss off a lot of people with this.
But it's stuff like this (eclipse in general) and so many other things. The human body, natural wonders, the galaxy around us, life, etc. All these things that take a unfathomable amount of microscopic intricacies and forces all working together precisely to make everything exist in the way they do. And people out there expect me to believe it's all what it is by random chance that resulted from what's essentially an unexplainable space fart? No. There's something beyond us on a higher level at work.
But that's me. Feel free to hate.


if there's a plan, then why the hell would today be cloudy?
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3rd_Best_Master
08/21/17 2:02:59 PM
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EternalDivide posted...
I'm going to piss off a lot of people with this.
But it's stuff like this (eclipse in general) and so many other things. The human body, natural wonders, the galaxy around us, life, etc. All these things that take a unfathomable amount of microscopic intricacies and forces all working together precisely to make everything exist in the way they do. And people out there expect me to believe it's all what it is by random chance that resulted from what's essentially an unexplainable space fart? No. There's something beyond us on a higher level at work.
But that's me. Feel free to hate.

For me it's like, you know when you pick up a tennis ball and you toss it nonchalantly across the room only for it to bounce off a chair, then the wall, then your brother's forehead, then it slides across your desk, then your cat bumps into it, then it falls off the desk and bounces off the floor, then bounces right back into your outstretched hand and you catch it without being aware of what the hell just happened? That's the universe, all the time.
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Sir Will
08/21/17 2:06:21 PM
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EternalDivide posted...
And people out there expect me to believe it's all what it is by random chance that resulted from what's essentially an unexplainable space fart?

Try to have some fucking clue what you're talking about before opening your gob. Or phrase it in a way that doesn't make you sound completely ignorant.

EternalDivide posted...
There's something beyond us on a higher level at work.

Nope.
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Kaname_Madoka
08/21/17 2:07:25 PM
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tbh
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Laserion
08/21/17 2:12:14 PM
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Tauros posted...
We're probably the only celestial body in the universe that has total eclipses.

According to Celestia, in Jupiter there will be a lot of solar eclipses by Ganymede, Io and Europa before the year ends. I didn't go there in Celestia to check how complete they would be, but there are enough that some of those shadows land fully on land and not off into space.
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Sir Will
08/21/17 2:19:03 PM
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I guess a distinction would be needed between something with the perfect conditions of earth to just block it out than for planets further away where the sun would be small in the sky a moon could easily block it out as long as it was in the right spot.
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RebelElite791
08/21/17 2:19:24 PM
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This is a monumentally stupid topic.
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chill02
08/21/17 2:20:36 PM
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makes you think
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Laserion
08/21/17 2:55:04 PM
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Sir Will posted...
I guess a distinction would be needed between something with the perfect conditions of earth to just block it out than for planets further away where the sun would be small in the sky a moon could easily block it out as long as it was in the right spot.

Fine. Do the other inner planets have moons?
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kirbymuncher
08/21/17 2:56:57 PM
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Mars moons are very small I can't imagine them being able to eclipse properly
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ThanksUglyGod
08/21/17 2:57:09 PM
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All part of God's intelligent design!
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Tauros
08/21/17 2:58:48 PM
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Canuklehead posted...
Not even the only celestial body in our solar system that has total eclipses.

Not true.

RebelElite791 posted...
This is a monumentally stupid topic.

Aren't you a Christian? Lol
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Questionmarktarius
08/21/17 2:59:02 PM
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Pluto has eclipses roughly every week.
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DarkDragon400
08/21/17 3:01:20 PM
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WaterLink
08/21/17 3:01:36 PM
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http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_577ec142e4b0344d514e9182

Remember reading this a while back. Cool article.

Tauros posted...
Canuklehead posted...

Not even the only celestial body in our solar system that has total eclipses.

Not true.

XD please tell me this a troll topic
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Questionmarktarius
08/21/17 3:04:57 PM
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weapon_d00d816
08/21/17 3:05:13 PM
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EternalDivide posted...
I'm going to piss off a lot of people with this.
But it's stuff like this (eclipse in general) and so many other things. The human body, natural wonders, the galaxy around us, life, etc. All these things that take a unfathomable amount of microscopic intricacies and forces all working together precisely to make everything exist in the way they do. And people out there expect me to believe it's all what it is by random chance that resulted from what's essentially an unexplainable space fart? No. There's something beyond us on a higher level at work.
But that's me. Feel free to hate.

How would you be aware of other possibilities though? You can't experience the lack of these random chance events because you wouldn't be around to observe it, so it doesn't make a difference.

If life is created through nature instead of intelligent design, then the situation will look identical both ways. The world being perfect for life is the reason for life, not a coincidence.
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Turtlebread
08/21/17 3:08:43 PM
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did you know that if the earth was even 3 feet closer to the sun the earth would burn up?

god is amazing
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hollow_shrine
08/21/17 3:09:43 PM
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This topic is amazing. Today a couple lessons were taught, and world views shifted to better align themselves with the observable universe of facts and rationality.



I'm just kidding.

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Questionmarktarius
08/21/17 3:10:54 PM
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Turtlebread posted...
did you know that if the earth was even 3 feet closer to the sun the earth would burn up?

But... it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perihelion_and_aphelion

The earth is three million miles closer to the sun every January.
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Zeeak4444
08/21/17 3:14:57 PM
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Tauros posted...
Canuklehead posted...
Not even the only celestial body in our solar system that has total eclipses.

Not true.

RebelElite791 posted...
This is a monumentally stupid topic.

Aren't you a Christian? Lol


Being willfully ignorant isn't a requirement for Christianity no matter how often some of you make me believe otherwise.
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RebelElite791
08/21/17 3:14:57 PM
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Tauros posted...
Canuklehead posted...
Not even the only celestial body in our solar system that has total eclipses.

Not true.

RebelElite791 posted...
This is a monumentally stupid topic.

Aren't you a Christian? Lol

Not even remotely religious?

And yeah, that is true. Other planets in our own system have total eclipses, let alone the utterly countless amount of planets across the universe

Shut up.
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DoctorVader
08/21/17 3:17:30 PM
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Lol, there's an estimated ~20 septillion stars and accompanying planets in the Universe.

Only my dick.
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HashBrownAgain
08/21/17 3:18:46 PM
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kirbymuncher posted...
Mars moons are very small I can't imagine them being able to eclipse properly

That and they are not even round.
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Turtlebread
08/21/17 3:20:20 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Turtlebread posted...
did you know that if the earth was even 3 feet closer to the sun the earth would burn up?

But... it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perihelion_and_aphelion

The earth is three million miles closer to the sun every January.


i'm being attacked for my personal beliefs and i don't like it
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Questionmarktarius
08/21/17 3:21:17 PM
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ehhwhatever
08/21/17 3:26:19 PM
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Egyptians looked for sirius to rise to indicate the nile rising. Pretty cool app.
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hollow_shrine
08/21/17 3:31:01 PM
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Turtlebread posted...
Questionmarktarius posted...
Turtlebread posted...
did you know that if the earth was even 3 feet closer to the sun the earth would burn up?

But... it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perihelion_and_aphelion

The earth is three million miles closer to the sun every January.


i'm being attacked for my personal beliefs and i don't like it

No one is attacking you. They are fact checking your assertions. And they're being a lot nicer about it than they could be.
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RebelElite791
08/21/17 3:31:31 PM
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hollow_shrine posted...
Turtlebread posted...
Questionmarktarius posted...
Turtlebread posted...
did you know that if the earth was even 3 feet closer to the sun the earth would burn up?

But... it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perihelion_and_aphelion

The earth is three million miles closer to the sun every January.


i'm being attacked for my personal beliefs and i don't like it

No one is attacking you. They are fact checking your assertions. And they're being a lot nicer about it than they could be.

Like 99% sure he's joking dawg
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NadYobWoc
08/21/17 3:34:24 PM
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hollow_shrine posted...
Turtlebread posted...
Questionmarktarius posted...
Turtlebread posted...
did you know that if the earth was even 3 feet closer to the sun the earth would burn up?

But... it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perihelion_and_aphelion

The earth is three million miles closer to the sun every January.


i'm being attacked for my personal beliefs and i don't like it

No one is attacking you. They are fact checking your assertions. And they're being a lot nicer about it than they could be.

He's clearly making fun of how stupid this topic is
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hitokoriX
08/21/17 3:39:37 PM
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EternalDivide posted...
I'm going to piss off a lot of people with this.
But it's stuff like this (eclipse in general) and so many other things. The human body, natural wonders, the galaxy around us, life, etc. All these things that take a unfathomable amount of microscopic intricacies and forces all working together precisely to make everything exist in the way they do. And people out there expect me to believe it's all what it is by random chance that resulted from what's essentially an unexplainable space fart? No. There's something beyond us on a higher level at work.
But that's me. Feel free to hate.

Its alright man. They'll hate.
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Tauros
08/21/17 3:49:59 PM
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RebelElite791 posted...
Tauros posted...
Canuklehead posted...
Not even the only celestial body in our solar system that has total eclipses.

Not true.

RebelElite791 posted...
This is a monumentally stupid topic.

Aren't you a Christian? Lol

Not even remotely religious?

And yeah, that is true. Other planets in our own system have total eclipses, let alone the utterly countless amount of planets across the universe

Shut up.

You're so angry it's hilarious. Glad to know I can get underneath the skin of some goober I'll never meet.
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ChromaticAngel
08/21/17 4:01:06 PM
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EternalDivide posted...
All these things that take a unfathomable amount of microscopic intricacies and forces all working together precisely to make everything exist in the way they do.


Those cool little things are goverened by laws that dictate they happen the way they do.

Like, you ever wonder why our solar system is basically a disc? With every planet on nearly the same level of elevation? Well it turns out that when things orbit, they like to orbit around the equator of said object. If they aren't orbiting around the equator, then over the course of millions of years, they drift towards that kind of an orbit. It just happens that way. You can look at any other solar system you want, you'll find all of them are flat discs.

But the kicker here is that also counts the moon orbiting the earth.

So when the moon orbits around the equator, and the earth orbits around the sun's equator, you end up in this position where the moon will occasionally be directly between the sun and the earth.

"YAH BUT TOTAL ECLIPZZZZZ"

Just so you know, the moon doesn't orbit like a skipit. the distance it has to the earth varies. Likewise, the distance the sun has to the earth ALSO varies. These can make the sun/moon appear smaller/larger in the sky. Every so often they'll be approximately the same size and cover each other up perfectly.

Like you say there is all kinds of weird minutia and perfect particle precision involved, but actually fact of the matter is there is a huge margin of error and we are swinging back and forth and just firing sprays of bullets into space and occasionally a few hit perfectly.
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