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That's a big burger (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (6 children)

actually the part that i am scratching my head at is the sevenfold brighter bit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I was curious about this too. From random web searching (Syfy.com), the sun is 200,000 times brighter than the moon in the visible light region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I know human perception is logarithmic. I'm interested why it was thought it was 7x brighter. "Sevenfold as the seven days in one" it seems?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I didn’t know about logarithmic perception, that’s interesting! I bet you’re right about 7x being chosen due to the significance of the number seven in the Bible.

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