well, i think that this meme relates to the perceptual distortion you see with near-horizon moon. you can't catch that with a camera, but it's subjectively the image that comes out of your visual cortex. so, probably, at the distance that a jupiter like planet could actually be at, could possibly be apprehended by human eyes exactly as depicted. just shrink those stupid planets down, put them near the horizon, and make them the same size as you see the moon at the horizon. then the unreality factor disappears.

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come to think of it, it's such a simple transform that you probably can make an on-device AI transformer that does the "how it looks to a human eye" transform. it's not the only one either. the entire distant field in a landscape is distorted by the visual cortex. cameras make everything look further away, that the brain perceives as being bigger
I think that's right. I think gravity and distance uses the same inverse square law as radiation, just expressed differently in the equation - m1 + m2 / distance square? I guess I'll look it up... Okay, close, gotta multiply all that by G, but yeah, so you can imagine the intensity of the gradient changing similarly with light from a star, so cutting the distance in half increases gravity by 4x, doubling it reduces gravity to 1/4, etc. Idk if the distance would be enough if it appears the same as the moon does to us, but it seems plausible if you compare it with that picture, so like maybe a 10x reduction in visible size would be bla 100x reduction in gravity. Right? I just woke up. I'm drinking coffee again. I'll quit again after I've healed from the stroke.