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The keep telling me it's big.

Apparently bigger than the city I live in.

But when I look up at it in the sky, I can cover it with a quarter held out at my arms length.

But does that make the moon smaller?

Or am I just perceiving it incorrectly?

The moon can't be smaller just because it is farther away.

But it looks smaller than a quarter.

My perception is wrong. My eyes are lying to me.

Parallax.

That's what they call it.

Far away things are still big,

The brain just lies

The keep telling me it's big. Apparently bigger than the city I live in. But when I look up at it in the sky, I can cover it with a quarter held out at my arms length. But does that make the moon smaller? Or am I just perceiving it incorrectly? The moon can't be smaller just because it is farther away. But it looks smaller than a quarter. My perception is wrong. My eyes are lying to me. Parallax. That's what they call it. Far away things are still big, The brain just lies

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What is this? Beatnik poetry? Dammit everytime I stop by Theo's Opium Den, you all are just sprawled about and listening to jazz. At least all the fags down at Theo's Meth Den have jobs, albeit the night shift at Quick-N-Go...

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Stop by Theo's Crack Den for a quick suck and fuck

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Have you considered it's because your arm is 400,000 km long? I'm just throwing ideas out.

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The next moon question you should ask is how could a moon of 2,000 miles in diameter only produce an eclipse shadow of 50-100 miles on earth?

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Ohhh that's actually a good question. Wonder what black science guy would say.

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Your house is also bigger than the nearest mountain by that logic

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There's a map of the earth on the moon

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They told me it was as large as Siberia

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Is the map folded or unfolded?

It's hard to fold those things back up.

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Well if you do the math the length of your arm then the width of the quarter, figure that angle then extrapolate out 400,000 miles ...I would say the moon is about $3.57 big (before taxes).