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    Default True or False?

    Almost got caught out: True or False "if the earth was scaled down to a speck of dust the sun would be 47 inches away and the nearest star would be 198 miles away"

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    True, assuming everything else was also scaled down.
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    False , the nearest star would be 47 inches away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Unhappy438 View Post
    False , the nearest star would be 47 inches away.
    This I was gonna ask "but isn't the sun the nearest star?"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Hoxbig View Post
    This I was gonna ask "but isn't the sun the nearest star?"
    Yeah exactly so the second nearest star would be 198 miles away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Hoxbig View Post
    This I was gonna ask "but isn't the sun the nearest star?"
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    lol,

    Thats my bad, but assuming they did not mean the sun, but the nearest star other than the sun.
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