Well, I've always been useless at geography....but this takes the biscuit

There’s something weird going on.

When did earth become the 3rd planet orbiting the Sun and Mars the 4th?

At least that’s the opposite of my recollection for decades, but ultimately probably wrong :worried:

Anyhow, found this fascinating…

Inadvertently posted incorrect link initially - it’s about space

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What are you smoking? :winking_face_with_tongue::winking_face_with_tongue::winking_face_with_tongue:

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I think I’m just a hyper-dimensional being and for me Mars is closer to the Sun when other metrics are considered :rofl:

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars is the concensus.

Either that, or we sent SOHO to the wrong bloody orbit! Buqqer!

(TBF, I didn’t work on SOHO, but many of my colleagues did!)

I have my suspicions :wink:

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It’s taken me a few hours and dodgy web hits for my subconscious to figure it out :rofl:

Yep, that’s the bunny!

Not my division (I was in “Tecomms”) but I still go drinking with many who were on that programme.

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Something like 4.5 billion years ago? AFAIK Mars has never somehow slipped in between Earth and Sun

Quite. Just find it bizarre that my brain ‘now’ had it wrong.

Maybe an assumption that ‘the red planet’ must have been hotter and closer. Truly odd. Mea culpa.

Can you point to Belgium on an unlabelled map?

Earth and Mars not the 3rd and 4th rocks from the sun respectively? If you are not careful you might qualify for honorary American.

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Sincerely doubtful and very odd :neutral_face:

Maybe if it had a Poirot icon over it.

If it is any consolation, while I’m pretty good with geography, I have no sense of direction. Mrs. FZ is simply amazed that I don’t automatically know which way is North or if we are driving East or West. I’ve never understood how some people just know what way they are facing.

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Again this is just so odd. I’m pretty scientifically inclined but just have so little idea of geographical relationships - maybe never interested, maybe something else.

I’m pretty good with time and can generally guesstimate with extreme accuracy if I don’t think about it.

Belgium, home of the classic “Chips and Mayonaise”!

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Space gets very confusing.

If you went to Australia, the moon would obviously be upside down.

But what happens if you are at the equator. :flushed_face:

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No, you are upside down. The moon hasn’t changed. :joy:

I have a friend in Aus who refuses to believe me when I tell them that when you flush the loo or pull the plug in the bath in the northern hemisphere, the water swirls down in the opposite direction. Calls me “a lying idiot”. And they have a masters in engineering.

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Boffins do theorise we possibly exist in a multi universe - a multiverse. Sometimes I honestly think I’ve gone to bed and woke up into another. :innocent:

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Hmm, I wonder if that might translate to hifi experiences…:thinking:

The last decade does feel a bit like living in a version of history that was never meant to be. Like novels and films where the Allied powers lost the war - Man in the High Castle kind of stuff.

Somewhere almost a decade ago I fell down the wrong time line and somewhere out there is the real one where things are as they are meant to be.

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