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CrispinS 4 hours ago

> What's moon plus sun?

Eclipse, obviously.

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christophilus 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That’s sun minus moon. Moon plus sun is a wildly more massive, nuclear furnace of a moon that also engulfs the earth.

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lkjdsklf 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Here i was, like an idiot, thinking it was moon light

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mcny 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wait so moon plus sun != sun plus moon? :Thinking:

	▲	chii 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		celestial objects don't need to obey algebraic commutativity!

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dcrazy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This 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 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Scribblenauts 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.

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AuryGlenz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or potentially a sun that lasts slightly longer?

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geuis 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not obvious. Astronomers are actively looking for signatures of exomoons around exoplanets. So "sun plus moon" could mean that too.

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xattt 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The OP said moon + sun, rather than sun + moon. We have no idea yet if celestial math is non-communicative.

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BenjiWiebe an hour ago | parent [-]

*commutative

	▲	tbrownaw an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Well, that too.