So, abandoning my car and running off screeching and flailing my arms is not an option?
Ask people how big the moon appears. Some people think that, if you shut one eye, the moon appears about as big as your palm at arm’s length. In fact, you can cover the image of the moon with your little finger, held at arm’s length.
Also, if you know exactly where to look, it is possible to see Venus during the day.
Whether the Sun rises/sets in the east or west. I’m still not sure…
I blame Hollywood for this. Movie makers are always making the moon look bigger than it actually is.
Really? I sincerely can’t imagine anyone thinking that. Not even the sun is that big. (Well, the sun is about as big as the moon in the sky, isn’t it, so I guess that would be self-evident.)
It’s not a conspiracy or poor memory. Welcome to the still-not-completely-explained moon illusion.
The children of your first cousins are your first cousins “once-removed” and vice- versa, not your 2nd cousins. Your children and your first cousins’ children are 2nd cousins to each other.
In my experience EVERYONE thinks the moon’s apparent size is much bigger than it is, and if you don’t believe me, go around and ask people. “Hey, how large an object, if you held it at arm’s length, would be just enough to cover up the moon?” You’ll get guesses like “a softball” or “A bread plate.” Nobody will say “a penny,” which is more than big enough.
This misapprehension is quite understandable. Viewed without references to any other object the moon does seem big. It is a very noteworthy object. After all, it’s the only thing up there at the time.
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The First Amendment to the US Constitution applies only to the government. Private corporations, groups, and individuals are well within their rights to tell you what you may or may not say when on their property, in their meetings, etc. (and you, as a private citizen, are within your rights to ignore them, if you wish).
Facebook is incapable of violating your 1st Amendment rights.
Huh. I find that surprising. I only sampled one person, my wife, and she made an object about 4-inches round. Maybe it’s because I’m a photographer I’m more aware of sizes of objects in the sky. But the moon is tiny in the sky. I’d guess more like the size of a dime, myself, if not smaller.
Huh – that’s weird about the Honda and Mazda. Maybe the icon memo came out after 2003? 
I’m not sure you have full rights to ignore such. If you choose to ignore rules about expression set down by a private party (e.g. you start screaming obscenities in your local supermarket) they can have you removed - by force if necessary.
One of the most bizarre and improbable of all coincidences, is that the sun and the moon are both exactly the same apparent size as seen from earth. So much so, that at some times in their orbits the sun is larger, and sometimes smaller, in appearance. Which accounts for the fact that some eclipses of the sun are total and some are not, depending on whether the moon completely obstructs the sun or not.
Exactly what is it that you’re “not sure” of?
If a product is labeled with the wrong price, the seller does not have to sell it to you for that price legally. I don’t know who started that rumor, but it is not true.
Otherwise, people could label a used car with a 99 cent sticker and the seller would have to honor it.
I would not call that improbable. In 100% of all recorded cases of an inhabited planet having a moon, that moon and the planet’s sun have the same apparent size when viewed from the planet’s surface.
I’d rephrase that first sentence as “have variable, and similar, apparent sizes”. Yeah yeah I know, nit. But it was driving me nut(s).
I don’t know who started it either, but I wish I did so I could refer the people who peel a sticker off one thing at work and put it on another to argue we “have to” sell it to them for the lower price to that rumor-generator.
I think almost all Americans do know this, but they overinterpret it as some fundamental law of nature that drivers on the right always have right of way. In fact, the conjunction of two different meanings of the word “right” is simply a narrowly-applicable mnemonic to reflect an arbitrary convention to give priority to the driver on one side at one type of junction. As a counterexample, in a country such as the U.S. that drives on the right, the traffic on a roundabout (traffic circle) moves counterclockwise, so the car on the left (i.e. already on the roundabout) has right of way over the car on the right waiting to enter the roundabout.