https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=71.166.113.253explain xkcd - User contributions [en]2026-07-10T08:27:45ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1074:_Moon_Landing&diff=13790Talk:1074: Moon Landing2012-09-29T04:12:14Z<p>71.166.113.253: </p>
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<div>The distance from Earth to Moon (the farthest we have gone away from earth) is twenty four times the diameter of Earth. If the Earth was a Basketball, the farther we have gone would be three meters from it, as the basketball is about 12 cm. The Randall statement is either wrong or purposely wrong. [[Special:Contributions/189.60.126.96|189.60.126.96]] 00:55, 28 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
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The previous comment is wrong because the title text says that "[...]if the Earth were a basketball, in 40 years no human's been more than half an inch from the surface." Randall said "in 40 years" not the life of human space travel as a whole.</div>71.166.113.253