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[โ€“] Flannels9658@lemmy.ml 106 points 1 year ago (11 children)

All the planets in the solar system can fit in the space between the Earth and the Moon

[โ€“] darcy@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

this is actually a misconception! the gravity of the planets combined would cause them all to crash into each other!

[โ€“] Donebrach@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a simple statement that the space between the earth and the moon can allow for the diameters of each planet to fit in between. Obviously it is not saying that such an arrangement would be stable for said astronomical bodies. Not at all โ€œa misconception.โ€

[โ€“] snctfd@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

further proof that /j is always necessary, no matter how obvious the joke

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