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TIL Earths relationship with the Moon is bound unbelievably to the golden ratio. If Earths radius = 1 and the moon equals 0.272 that makes 1.272 (square root of phi). Draw a triangle with one line at a value of 1 and the second at a value of 1.272 and then hypotenuse (third line) is 1.618 or phi

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