• lunarul@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    And the idea of such a big moon was part of why it was largely thought of as an unfounded myth.

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      4 months ago

      And it shows how Asimov had zero conception of how ridiculously huge the galaxy is, though that’s just the storylines being a product of their time, probably.

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        Or he was writing a fiction and knew he could play fast and loose with scientific laws.

        Asimov wrote non-fiction books about astronomy; I’m sure he knew as much about it as you do.