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How Far Away is the Moon? (The Scale of the Universe)

Veritasium, 2 min, 2.4M views, Feb 17, 2011

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If the Earth were the size of a basketball and the moon a tennis ball, how far apart would they be? Diagrams that are not to scale make us think that they're closer than they really are.