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The Sun and Moon appearing the same size means there's a corona during a solar eclipse. I don't think the corona appears if the Moon is larger than the Sun. It'

• robbiep 10y ago
  > and it could even have jolted life to become intelligent life in some way. That is outrageous. How many eclipses have you seen in your life? There are 2-5 solar eclipses every year. Most people will never see one cross the piece of dirt they inhabit over their whole lives. The idea that a transient celestial phenomenon that lasts around 5 minutes, and that a large number of organisms in the species will never even see, is going to somehow stimulate a cognitive awakening is absurd. Why wouldn't a storm create this 'cognitive kick start'? There are more of them and they require more wiles to survive.
  • vorg 10y ago
    > The idea that a transient celestial phenomenon that lasts around 5 minutes [...] is going to somehow stimulate a cognitive awakening is absurd I specifically said it's the corona, not the eclipse, that's spectacular. The corona only lasts seconds, not anywhere near 5 minutes. > and that a large number of organisms in the species will never even see That's based on the present geographic distribution of humans. When humankind was making the transition to intelligence, they were distributed differently over the earth, over a zone more likely to produce eclipses with a corona. > How many eclipses have you seen in your life? Only one with the full corona. There's three naturally occurring time periods in nature: days, years, and inter-coronal intervals.
    • Tloewald 10y ago
      Um how about lunar months, magnetic pole cycles...