(September 13, 2016 at 11:02 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: We're nearly four times closer to Alpha centauri than to El Sol. So why hasn't that closer star pulled us out of orbit?
Ummmm. . . see that big giant yellow thing in the sky? That's the sun. It looks so big, and feels so hot, because it's close to us.
Bae, it's nice to learn numbers, but you gotta think practically, too--- do you really expect that little tiny speck in the night sky to have a more dominating pull on the Earth that that huge, huge thing in the daytime sky? Doesn't make sense, right?
