• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The extremely unlikely, a d actually entirely coincidental, fact that our moon happens to be precisely the right size and distance from the sun and moon to perfectly obscure it.

    it’s extremely unlikely and entirely coincidental that your hand is exactly the size to obscure your vision. this doesn’t speak for the odds of it never happening again elsewhere in the universe.

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      8 months ago

      What?

      Like, the thing about the hand aside, if something is extremely unlikely, that literally speaks to the odds of it happening. That’s what unlikely means.

      Your hand covering your face isn’t coincidental or unlikely; everyone’s hand does and it’s written into your genetics that it should.

      There’s no particular reason why a big rock should end up in the particular place it did for us, and it’s surprising that it did.
      It’s not likely that it happens often because there’s no reason for it to happen, unlike other interesting phenomenon we see like the big red spot on Jupiter or the hexagon on Saturn. Those should be common because there’s a systemic reason they happened.

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        8 months ago

        Like, the thing about the hand aside,

        they’re both conjecture based on a microscopic sample size.

        Your hand covering your face isn’t coincidental or unlikely; everyone’s hand does and it’s written into your genetics that it should.

        ahem, this is so wrong in so many ways.

        everyone’s hand does

        Nope.

        and it’s written into your genetics that it should.

        pshew wow nope nope nope.

        Nothing in your genes controls a proportional size relationship of your hands to your head. And not everyone has large hands, look at trump for example.

        There’s no particular reason why a big rock should end up in the particular place it did for us,

        you really don’t understand planetary formation, stability in orbital mechanics and a bunch of subjects. there’s tons of good reasons to suspect the other planets had moons as well; they simply weren’t as orbitally stable as ours ended up.

        The only thing your (and other person I’m responding to here) argument has going for it is the extraordinarily difficulty of resolving exomoons orbiting exoplanets around our neighborhood.

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      8 months ago

      I only specified the Milky Way, not the entire universe. It would be highly unlikely that we’d be the only place in the universe that it happened, but the chances are potentially low enough for it being the only one among a mere 100,000,000,000 stars.