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"The moon orbit is elliptical with perigee being 357,000 and apogee 406,000 kilometers (222,000 and 252,000 mi, respectively). Average distance is 381500 km or 237,000 miles.
381500/357000 -> 6.8% closer. Inverse square law shows that being 6.8% closer, it will appear 14.2% bigger."
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I was just going to say this.
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"Fully integrated people, in their transparency, tend to not be subject to mechanisms of defense, disguise, deceit, and fraudulence."
- - Don R. 1994, an excerpt from My Ass From a Hole in the Ground - A Comparative View
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