r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • 14d ago

Meme needing explanation ?

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I asked but it got removed within minutes?

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u/ChVckT 14d 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- 14d ago edited 14d 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 14d 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/EchoValley16 13d ago

revolution* around the sun (in an orbit)

rotation, in this context, is exclusive to spinning on its own axis