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The comment you're responding to didn't claim that; rather, it claimed that the sun is closer than any planet by this metric, which is true.
by 333c 7y ago
The comment you're responding to didn't claim that; rather, it claimed that the sun is closer than any planet by this metric, which is true.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoI'm aware of that. But the piece in question is literally titled Which Planet is Closest? So while it's possible that the sun actually is the winner, it's not an answer to the question being investigated. If they can pedant, so can I.
- Ygg2 7y agoThat's not the issue here. The video asks which planet is the closest, and presents its measurements as common sense. Then it gets controversial results. Imo the base setup is wrong and Sun and Mercury always being the closest is a demonstration of that. It should either measure the minimum or maximum distance between planets/stars, not the average. Or measure distance between two orbits.