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How Far Away is the Moon? (VIDEO)

Posted by Ones_and_Zeros on Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011

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The Earth and the Moon

If the earth is a basketball and the moon is a tennis ball, how far apart would they have to be to account for scale?

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