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> What's moon plus sun? Eclipse, obviously.
by CrispinS 8mo ago
> What's moon plus sun?
Eclipse, obviously.
- christophilus 8mo agoThat’s sun minus moon. Moon plus sun is a wildly more massive, nuclear furnace of a moon that also engulfs the earth.
- dcrazy 8mo agoThis thread reminds me of Scribblenauts, the game where you conjure objects to solve puzzles by describing them. I suspect it was an inspiration for Baba Is You.
- Der_Einzige 8mo agoScribblenauts was also an early precursor to modern GenAI/word embeddings. I constantly bring it up in discussions of the history of AI for this reason.
- veqq 8mo agoCould you explain? :3
- mcny 8mo agoWait so moon plus sun != sun plus moon? :Thinking:
- chii 8mo agocelestial objects don't need to obey algebraic commutativity!
- direwolf20 8mo agoI wonder if SCP-1313 does
- Auracle 8mo agoOr potentially a sun that lasts slightly longer?
- lkjdsklf 8mo agoHere i was, like an idiot, thinking it was moon light
- fsckboy 8mo ago>Moon plus sun is a wildly more massive, nuclear furnace of a moon that also engulfs the earth. i just looked up mass of sun vs mass of moon (they differ by 10^30 vs 10^20), and the elemental composition of the sun: the moon would entirely disappear into the insignificant digits of trace elements which are in the range of .01 % of the sun. I could be off by orders of magnitude all over the place and it would still disappear.
- SauntSolaire 8mo agoReminds me of this AI word combination game recently shared on HN, with almost exactly these mechanics: https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/ https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/ For the record, Sun+Moon is indeed eclipse.
- tessierashpool9 8mo agobut then eclipse + moon = sun, which doesn't make much sense either :/
- spacedcowboy 8mo agoNot sure about that. You can't have an eclipse without both the moon and the sun. Ergo, the eclipse is the totality (sorry!) of the sun and moon, or sun+moon (+very specific boundary conditions). Still think it was a good response :)
- geuis 8mo agoNot obvious. Astronomers are actively looking for signatures of exomoons around exoplanets. So "sun plus moon" could mean that too.
- xattt 8mo agoThe OP said moon + sun, rather than sun + moon. We have no idea yet if celestial math is non-communicative.
- BenjiWiebe 8mo ago*commutative
- tbrownaw 8mo agoWell, that too.
- godelski 8mo agoWell you find the signature by looking for a dip in but sun's luminosity. So minus might be the better relationship here
- jraph 8mo agoMoon plus sun would be sun because the sun would be an absorbing element.
- acka 8mo agoMoon implies there is a planet the moon is orbiting. So unless the planet and its moon are too close to the sun the long term result could also be: solar system.
- jraph 8mo agoThis goes to show how that plus operation is awfully defined.
- speed_spread 8mo agoThat's operator overloading for you.
- IsTom 8mo agoINSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
- nkrisc 8mo agoThe set of celestial objects visible to the naked eye during the day.