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To: takebackaustin

Outstanding analysis there! Thanks, takebackaustin.


12 posted on 06/20/2026 2:23:37 PM PDT by poconopundit (Tommy Robinson, love you man. Keep up the good fight. Make the UK Great Again.)
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To: poconopundit
Thank you sir. That means something to me coming from a US sonneteer for all seasons.

Further to ”what does that tell us”, it sets proportionalities (when combined with other such observations) between the scale of orbital distances versus planetary and lunar radii. The ancients ( British Navigational authorities) sent Capt.Cook on a two year voyage under sail to observe a transit of Venus (passage in front of the Sun) from across the world (Tahiti) to fix the constants of that proportionality using a known distance (London to Tahiti) , in order to know the scale of the Solar System. In other words we knew the proportions but not the absolute distances, sizes, and masses of our star and planets. Measuring the Solar System by an Odyssey under Sail.

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/cooks-view-of-the-transit-of-venus-78158/

13 posted on 06/20/2026 4:29:27 PM PDT by takebackaustin
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