• Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Does a moon base count? Technically the moon would have orbital priority but it itself or its the Earth. Does an aldrin cycler count as a base? Does something in an unstable orbit that happens to largely coincide with earths orbit count?

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      2 days ago

      No on the moon base as the Nazis already did it. The base needs to be installed on a terrestrial body other than Earth and its moon. Just to keep things fair since we’re unsure how long it might be before the fabric of time is discovered to require military intervention.

    • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Base on moon would not be orbiting the earth because the moon does not orbit the earth.

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        Wut? The moon definitely does orbit the earth, that’s like its defining feature. Am I whooshing?

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            Thats a meaningless distintion, the moon orbits the earth with an elliptical orbit in the Earth’s frame of reference, or an eliptical orbit with fairly large, low frequency oscillations in the Sun’s frame of reference. The same is true for something in LEO except the oscilations are smaller and shorter period.

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              21 hours ago

              It is a valid distinction

              Remove the sun and the moon and earth will no longer be together. Either the moon is leaving or crashing into the earth.

              Remove the sun and the ISS is still going to orbit the earth.

              If we were driving cars around a race track and kept pass each other on the left, you’d say one of us was “orbiting” the other?

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                21 hours ago

                I’m not sure where you got that from, the moon absolutely is gravitationally bound to the earth, so much so that it has become tidally locked.

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        2 days ago

        Is this the new conspiracy theory to replace flat earth? Go, spread your narrative wings!