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Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math by christophilus on Sunday February 01, 2026 @09:16PM (#46851650)
That’s sun minus moon. Moon plus sun is a wildly more massive, nuclear furnace of a moon that also engulfs the earth.
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math by mcny on Sunday February 01, 2026 @10:27PM (#46852083)
Wait so moon plus sun != sun plus moon? :Thinking:
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math by chii on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:36AM (#46852795)
celestial objects don't need to obey algebraic commutativity!
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math by direwolf20 on Monday February 02, 2026 @05:37AM (#46854487)
I wonder if SCP-1313 does
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math by dcrazy on Sunday February 01, 2026 @10:04PM (#46851937)
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.
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math by Der_Einzige on Sunday February 01, 2026 @10:16PM (#46852023)
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.
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math by veqq on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:52AM (#46852870)
Could you explain? :3
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math by AuryGlenz on Sunday February 01, 2026 @11:13PM (#46852321)
Or potentially a sun that lasts slightly longer?
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math by lkjdsklf on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:38AM (#46852806)
Here i was, like an idiot, thinking it was moon light
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math by fsckboy on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:51AM (#46852864)
>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.

Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math by SauntSolaire on Monday February 02, 2026 @01:01AM (#46852914)
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.

Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math by tessierashpool9 on Monday February 02, 2026 @07:26AM (#46855175)
but then eclipse + moon = sun, which doesn't make much sense either :/
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math by spacedcowboy on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:12AM (#46856905)
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 :)