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18 Jun 2025, 5:03 am

The sun is about 400 times larger than the moon.



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18 Jun 2025, 11:30 am

Are you sure? They told me at school that you could fit a million Earths into the sun. I suppose that's based on volume though, and you might be talking about diameters.

Hmm......diameter 400 times = volume 64,000,000 times or so. Something like that. I can't be bothered to work it out properly but it does show that you could be about right.



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19 Jun 2025, 6:41 am

ToughDiamond wrote:
Are you sure? They told me at school that you could fit a million Earths into the sun. I suppose that's based on volume though, and you might be talking about diameters.

Hmm......diameter 400 times = volume 64,000,000 times or so. Something like that. I can't be bothered to work it out properly but it does show that you could be about right.

No I'm not sure. That's just what I learned yesterday.



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19 Jun 2025, 6:42 am

Ketchup was once used as medicine.



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19 Jun 2025, 11:13 am

French billiards is played in a table with no pockets

Why would they make a table with no pockets


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Today, 11:33 am

It's the longest day of the year today so I'm told

I don't actually understand this to be honest


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