Plasmon comments on Rebutting radical scientific skepticism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Plasmon 01 May 2014 06:21:59PM 0 points [-]

So far as I know, we have no good theories apart from "it just happened to work out that way". This is pretty unsatisfying.

Keep in mind that the earth-moon distance is not constant. The moon appeared larger in the past and will appear smaller in the future.