Sun-Earth-Moon
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
Human life came to exist on (probably?) the ONLY planet in the universe that happens to have 2 neighbors, which coincidentally have distance and size so perfectly offsetting, that we have these events where one fits perfectly inside the other, from our vantage point!
Incredibly, the cultures that came before us thought of this as profound and formed their entire cosmology around this fact, yet if you ask an average person the trick question, which one is bigger on the retina, the sun or the moon, they will think about it and then make a guess. No one I have tried that trick on, has said "equal!"
Date submitted:Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:02:34 +0000Coincidence ID:8434
