Mercury Is the Closest Planet – to Every Other Planet

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A YouTube video claims Mercury is the closest planet to every other planet, sparking discussion about the video's presentation and the relative distances between planets.

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netsharc

2 months ago

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Sigh, an over-long over-explanining video in herp-derp language... what a stupid timeline we live in.

And I notice YouTube offer 4x speed now... but... it's a premium feature. Hah, fucking wonderful!

thunderbong

2 months ago

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If you're not on mobile, you might want to try Video Speed Controller

Firefox Add-on - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/videospeed/

Chrome Extension - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/video-speed-control...

cholantesh

2 months ago

I wonder if Revanced could integrate this.

noman-land

2 months ago

Either of these can help. Just call it with a video url.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

https://mpv.io/

rudolph9

2 months ago

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What is the mostest closest neighbor relative to mercury?

rudolph9

2 months ago

I would think Venus, since it has the second smallest orbit. If that’s the case, I’m wondering if there’s some mathematical theorem that proves the “closest” planet is always the one with the next smallest orbit, regardless of speed or how closely the two objects’ orbits align in size.

verzali

2 months ago

Mercury really is the closest planet to us right now - it is 129 millon km away. Venus is 245 million and Mars is 361 million. From December the Sun will be closer than Mercury (147 million) but it won't be until August next year that Venus will be closer than both. After that Venus is the closest until the start of 2027, when it is the turn of Mars.

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