Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe

Holy hell, that was an awesome read.

Your comment convinced me to read it. Thank you!!!

Was expecting clickbait, but instead got an interesting Nitter thread about quasi-moons and the nature of asteroid hunting

I've developed a reflex to not click on clickbait. Then I saw all these comments... Maybe I'll get over myself and click it later.
- Same here - and then I start wondering if all the positive comments are just part of the bait. I need to be less suspicious!
  
  Anyway, I clicked and it was worth it - but can you trust me?? ;-)
- It's worth it. I avoid clickbait and Twitter, yet even with those two strikes, it was a homerun.

Ok that was much more entertaining than I expected.

Do you know that when you look at a planet and you see that light, that planet's not even there? That's just a light. That's just your neighbor shining a flashlight right into your yard looking for 'coons, and he says "What are you doing in my back yard? ..With that flashlight?"
And I told him "I'm shining in the window so I can teach your son about the universe".
He said, "Get out of my yard, and why are you communicating to my son? Why are you in all black, behind my bushes, shining a light into my house?"
And I said, "I'm teaching your son about the universe! I'm shining a light right in there and exploring his room, as he's looking out and exploring the universe. I turn the light off and I see your son go to bed, and I turn the light back on and I do swirls on his wall like a comet's tail.
I do this every night with your son."

Oh man Tim and Eric lol. Wasn't expecting them this morning .

JFC, that was awesome.

Probably the least depressing read in a while. Thanks for sharing.

glad you enjoyed it. although if you really genuinely haven't read anything as positive as this in a while (or more positive) then you might have some media cleanup to do. this kind of content should be the norm - and it IS, for me!

This was a fun read. TIL about quasi moons and the first one ever found. The authors enthusiasm for space is really fun. It reminds me of how I feel about any space thing when I’m baked

Great post. I knew immediately what happened with the numbers and letters.

Instance has been rate limited 😕

I posted a transcription of it to another comment here. But I'm not seeing it on refresh. So here's a link to my comment. Hope it helps.

https://lemmy.world/comment/7068731
- Long live ZOOZVE!
https://twitter.com/latifnasser/status/1750952860131729544
Bummer... Was really curious to read that.
- Keep trying, it’s 100% worth the read. Really neat stuff

I was just reading about this. This is a type of neologism known as a Ghost Word!

the classic example (you may have heard from Vsauce) is Dord.

It's funny how I would see this the very next day after learning about it! (Even though that may not be true for the rest of you.) Anyone know what THAT phenomenon is called?

Maybe some sort of aberrant Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (frequency illusion)? Although that is usually more like, I bought a Camry and now I see them everywhere, but they were everywhere before- I just didn't notice until I had one.
- I think that was the one I was thinking of

Great read!

I love this pic.

Curious how this compares to Cruithne which is also "sort of orbiting but not really" with Earth?

"And by the way, Earth even has at least seven different quasi moons dancing around us right now!!! The most recent one was discovered in 2023!"

Presumably this includes Cruithne.

Thank you very much. This was oddly inspiring!!!

This is the cool stuff I come here to read. Very interesting!