Imagine not having a moon the exact size and distance away from you so that it can perfectly blot out the sun during an eclipse. what a loser am i right.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I saw someone say if we had contact with aliens, they’d be coming here in droves to see the amazing cosmic rarity of a total solar eclipse with a visible corona (especially on a habitable planet). Which honestly sounds about right.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a minor plot point in the book Transition by Iain M Banks. It's a great book. Read it

I'm not ruining anything by saying this. It's mentioned super early in the book.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Truly Earth is the best planet in the world.

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

frothingfash EARTH EARTH EARTH EARTH EARTH EARTH EARTH EARTH EARTH EARTH lets-fucking-go

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine being Martian and dressing like this every day

Roman empire hat and tennis shoes? The fuck is that?

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Growing up watching old Looney Tunes, I always wondered why the Martian dude had a broom on his helmet.

[–] ItsPequod@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Ohhh lol It just dawned on me; he's from Mars so he looks vaguely Roman.

Dunno bout those boaters tho

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Shit tier planet, even Titan can manage lakes

[–] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like Cookie Monster found weed

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

"Me look in mirror." He looks into a mirror. "Googly eyes. Me baked."

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is Earthks moon named? "Moon". What are Mar's moons named? Terror and Dread.

Checkmate, earthiests!

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Sounds like Mars isn't woke, unlike soy Earth

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lmao imagine not even having a pleasantly rounded ( hyperflush ) moon on your shitball of a planet. Common Mars L

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Shaped like a chicken nugget

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If Earth's so great how come our leaders keep trying to turn it into Mars with climate change?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

Excuse me?! They're trying to turn Earth into Venus. Very different.

[–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

Our leaders are martians?

Or martian admirers?

[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

👏👏👏 PLA-NET EARTH

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Something absolutely magical is the fact that in the geologically tiny instant humanity has existed, the moon is just far enough away so that full eclipses are a thing, not to mention tides and other lunar phenomena. A few million years before or after and if wouldn't be at all like this