An old Veratassium video* inspired me to do this, although I'm not sure why. Anyway, the general point is that a lot of people don't understand how ridiculously far the moon is from the earth.

• youtube.com/watch?v=Bz9D6xba9Og&list=PL772556F1EFC4D01C&index=8
  (If you'd like to watch the video, the channel benefits if you watch it on youtube without an ad blocker and watch at least one video on Youtube after it. That's youtube's algorithm, as far as I can tell.)