bold of you to assume I put literally any brainpower into contextualizing that as where you were or even why you were there
I just got to play geoguessr in the wild
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Could it be ā¦ someone designed it to be that way?
yeah it was me, no problem
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It actually wonāt be that way forever. The moon is gradually getting further away and eventually it wonāt be able to cover the sun like it does and cause an eclipse. Iām pretty sure the opposite was true at one point and it used to completely cover the sun. We just happen to live in a time where we get solar eclipses.
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whatās the timescale on this anyways
and how does it stack up to human history
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a quick google search suggests we have 650 million years until eclipses donāt work which is far enough out as to basically not matter
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not sure when they started but theyāre going to last ~500-600 million more years
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I think itās probably not unlikely to assume then that for as long as humans have been a thing weāve had sick eclipses
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Really weird and bizarre and seemingly unbelievable coincidences happen all the time (mathematically speaking, itād be weird if freak coincidences like that didnāt happen with some regularity). Itās extremely common for humans to look for and attribute deeper meaning to these coincidences. Thereās even for a word for it: apophenia. A classic example of an apophany (and even theophany I think) is the identification of constellations. The big dipper is up there looking like a big dipper! Itās really hard for us, as humans, to really internalize and understand that thereās no meaning to it looking like that. Like a way to detect if something is unnatural is if there are literally no patterns we can find it because thatās extraordinarily unusual and belies an intentionality behind its lack of visible patterns. Weāre just really good pattern recognition machines, and really like to believe thereās meaning behind it. Itās just how weāre wired.
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Yeah, itās one of things weāre fortunate the timing happened to line up this way.
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fortune tellers moment
youāre like my dad, in that i know youāre neurotypical and at the same time i utterly refuse to believe it
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also im ngl the constellations arenāt actually patterns unless youāre exceptionally bored and have nothing to do with your time but stare at the night sky and come up with shit
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TRUE
hanging out with yāall does in fact have downsides for my sanity
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which to be clear is like totally valid if that was your life but in the modern day I have higher standards for what constitutes a drawing of a bear
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if a two year old can do better it aināt a bear sorry not sorry
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ok look, Iām not going to defend āursa major is a bear,ā but Iām willing to defend āthe big dipper is a dipperā
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