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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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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).