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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 75 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The sun is 1.4 million kilometres in diameter, and it is surprisingly hard to throw something into it.

The more important question is how much of our night sky the moon takes up, and the answer is only 0.5 degrees.

[–] TxzK@lemmy.zip 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

How much is that in hamburgers? Sorry I only understand freedom units

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Approximately .075 hamburger at arms length

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think you meant 5/64 of a hamburger.

I was told that the concept of decimal is too hard to understand compared to fractions.

[–] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately you're completely wrong here. Americans, burgers, and fractions don't mix well.

Third pound burger failed because people thought it was smaller than a Quarter Pounder

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 13 points 7 months ago

0.5° is 0.00873 radians

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Turkey at distance is the proper measure here. That's a Turkey at I'd reckon 10 football fields.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 7 months ago

Degrees are the freedom unit!