• jpeps@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m guessing basically 0 years, honestly. Both are visible in the sky at the same time, so I’m not really sure what being different sizes would clarify.

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      5 months ago

      I think too much order lead to a loss of information.

      Of course they are visible at the time so we know they are not the same. But the way we Humans generalize concepts around ridiculously little set of data makes me think that most of people must have looked at the sky, decided they were the same type of things that have definitely always been there, and just forget about it. “Nah we good, those are Gods. Don’t think about it and don’t make them angry”.

      This is the type of coincidence that is blinding in a way. People naturally give way too much attention to random things. There are literally tons of textbooks examples of events that look totally improbable, but will in fact appear constantly (meeting someone who knows someone you know in an airplane, meeting someone with the same birthday at a wedding etc).