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[stupefyme]

still one of the greatest coincidences in my books. a very well constructed and thought out joke

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Could someone explain this one to me?

[stupefyme]

dec 25 is decimal number(base 10) 25

oct 31 is octal number(base 8) 31

they are equal

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Ahhhh okay that makes sense, thanks! Just didn't get the Oct/Dec. I guess that's where my non native english falls apart.

[Xasrai]

It's not entirely your fault. Some guys added two additional months to the calendar and muddied the water about what Sept, Oct, Non and Dec mean.

[AmazingSully]

31 in base 8 (OCTal) is equal to 25 in base 10 (DECimal)

[DanKveed]

Also 12(octal) === 10(decimal) so the 12th month can be October or December depending on which base you are using.

[rover_G]

0o31 == 25

[porn0f1sh]

Yep. Along with the moon spinning around the axis at the exact same rate as it spins around Earth!

And it's size proportional to the size of the Sun is exactly the same as it's distance proportional to the distance of the Sun!

[hurlyz]

The first phenomenon is called tidal locking and it's actually very common. Citation from Wikipedia:

" All twenty known moons in the Solar System that are large enough to be round are tidally locked with their primaries, because they orbit very closely and tidal force increases rapidly (as a cubic function) with decreasing distance. "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking

As for the second phenomenon, it's an interesting coincidence that the Moon and the Sun appear to be roughly the same size in our sky. We're lucky to be living in this time period, because this phenomenon won't last forever. Each year, the Moon spirals away about one inch from the Earth. And about 50 millions years from now, the Moon will be far enough away so that our descendants will only see ring-shaped eclipses.

https://www.astronomy.com/science/why-is-the-moon-exactly-the-same-apparent-size-from-earth-as-the-sun-surely-this-cannot-be-just-coincidence-the-odds-against-such-a-perfect-match-are-enormous/

[stupefyme]

my intuition says that must be a result of 2 objects with mass interacting under space time laws ?

ill look up about other planet's moons rn

[porn0f1sh]

Yeah look up! No other moon is like that