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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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I wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet. (slrpnk.net)

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It was only in 1969 (nice) that fungi officially became its own separate kingdom.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is not the case with the earth and the moon. It would be if the moon was 40% more massive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I went and checked after posting.

My hunch is that if the moon was closer it would 'drag' the barycentre closer to the moon.

Which, given the moon is slowly receeding, means it was probably a binary early on in the formation of the solar system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Other way around, the further apart the objects are the less likely the barycentre is to be inside one of them, you can picture it as a rubber band with a dot drawn on it, the more you stretch it the further the dot gets from both ends even if it gets further from one end faster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Nice analogy.

TYVM!