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> What's moon plus sun?

Eclipse, obviously.

>>Crispi+(OP)
That’s sun minus moon. Moon plus sun is a wildly more massive, nuclear furnace of a moon that also engulfs the earth.

>>Crispi+(OP)
Not obvious. Astronomers are actively looking for signatures of exomoons around exoplanets. So "sun plus moon" could mean that too.

>>geuis+44
The OP said moon + sun, rather than sun + moon. We have no idea yet if celestial math is non-communicative.

>>christ+a1
This thread reminds me of Scribblenauts, the game where you conjure objects to solve puzzles by describing them. I suspect it was an inspiration for Baba Is You.

>>dcrazy+N5
Scribblenauts was also an early precursor to modern GenAI/word embeddings. I constantly bring it up in discussions of the history of AI for this reason.

>>christ+a1
Wait so moon plus sun != sun plus moon? :Thinking:

>>christ+a1
Or potentially a sun that lasts slightly longer?

>>xattt+f5
*commutative

>>BenjiW+Qd
Well, that too.

>>mcny+98
celestial objects don't need to obey algebraic commutativity!

>>christ+a1
Here i was, like an idiot, thinking it was moon light

>>christ+a1
>Moon plus sun is a wildly more massive, nuclear furnace of a moon that also engulfs the earth.

i just looked up mass of sun vs mass of moon (they differ by 10^30 vs 10^20), and the elemental composition of the sun: the moon would entirely disappear into the insignificant digits of trace elements which are in the range of .01 % of the sun. I could be off by orders of magnitude all over the place and it would still disappear.

>>Der_Ei+b7
Could you explain? :3

>>christ+a1
Reminds me of this AI word combination game recently shared on HN, with almost exactly these mechanics:

https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/

For the record, Sun+Moon is indeed eclipse.

>>geuis+44
Well you find the signature by looking for a dip in but sun's luminosity. So minus might be the better relationship here

>>Crispi+(OP)
Moon plus sun would be sun because the sun would be an absorbing element.

>>jraph+IB
Moon implies there is a planet the moon is orbiting. So unless the planet and its moon are too close to the sun the long term result could also be: solar system.

>>acka+bD
This goes to show how that plus operation is awfully defined.

>>Crispi+(OP)
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.

>>chii+Dj
I wonder if SCP-1313 does

>>jraph+ED
That's operator overloading for you.

>>christ+a1
but then eclipse + moon = sun, which doesn't make much sense either :/

>>Crispi+(OP)
The set of celestial objects visible to the naked eye during the day.

>>christ+a1
Not sure about that. You can't have an eclipse without both the moon and the sun. Ergo, the eclipse is the totality (sorry!) of the sun and moon, or sun+moon (+very specific boundary conditions).

Still think it was a good response :)