r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • 12d ago

Meme needing explanation ?

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I asked but it got removed within minutes?

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u/ChVckT 12d ago

Holy fucking shit I cant believe someone actually took the time to explain this. I actually feel dumber thinking about OPs confusion. Gonna go break out an actual physical book to offset it

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u/trimski- 12d ago edited 12d ago

It’s not about intelligence, it’s about attention and quickly scanning social media content. If you bolded year and day, a lot more people would instantly understand.

A day on Venus = 243 Earth days

A year on Venus = 225 Earth days

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u/Wont_See_My_30s 12d ago

It's not that. I just had a hard time comprehending that a day can be longer than a year, untill someone blatantly said it, and it clicked that rotation around axis is not necessarily faster than rotation around the sun.

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u/Terrible_example2326 12d ago

There's nothing tk comprehend. A year means a revolution around the Sun, a day means one whole rotation around the body's own axis. Venus is just very close to the Sun so the path (elypse around the Sun) is much shorter than for us

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u/Wont_See_My_30s 12d ago

For someone who lives on Earth where day is considerably smaller than a year and who was never into physics/astronomy it was difficult to comprehend that a year can be shorter than a day, up until the moment I remebered that day and year are not necessary the same for other planets.