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Do people understand the scale of the universe?

do people really understand the Scale of the Universe damn really that's okay this task is going to seem ridiculously easy rank these uh things from smallest at the top to biggest on the bottom but sometimes you have to ask the question no one would bother to in order to figure out what people are actually thinking this is really going to put my astronomy skills to the test so I don't know Moon yeah I'd say moon is probably small I say stars are smallest but the sun is a star this like science place going say planets are the smallest I say Planet might be the top of the line is the Sun bigger than the moon what depends on the planet right it does but is a general category Stars bin moons and then there stars y around the planet the sun is a star right I think it is you think this one's next I trust you cuz we're talking about a Galaxy bro we're talking everything you looking at the Galaxy too here like okay I think it's this one and then this one you're right you can wait no unless you believe in the Multiverse then you know you're taking this like four-dimensional chest level I think the moon would be bigger no I mean you think right cuz like it it looks bigger yeah is this supposed to be like a science lesson like there is there's definitely some science to this okay we are not astrology [Laughter] Majors so what is a moon like how's a moon different from a planet um the ction of dust maybe the way that they come about in astrology and like the I don't know like the meteors planets is like human life already exist or potentially can exist and a planet has its own like I don't know I feel a planet is capable of having its own atmosphere or something and then the atmosphere of the moon and the planet are completely different whether or not it has like an atmosphere I get why some people would think this because the Earth has an atmosphere while our moon has essentially no atmosphere but Titan Saturn's largest moon actually has a thick atmosphere while mercury has no substantial atmosphere so if having an atmosphere isn't what makes a planet then what is it you ...

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