Mercury's apparent size in the sky when close to us is about twice the size as when mercury is in the other side of the sun from us. So mercury would appear about 75% the size it is in this photo of it were next to the sun (so about the same distance away as the sun is).

Well, my socks are off.

....so are my pants

and underwear

and shirt

Who picks wool for their fucking socks?

There's nothing sexy about wool.

EDIT: Fucking. Intercourse. Pun.

Same reasons for any eclipses :
.1- plane of orbits (the one for Venus and the one for the Earth) do not exactly coincide and
.2- because distances between objects are much larger than objects, including size of the sun.

It's probably more about how often it's visible in your part of the world than it happening at all if I had to guess.

Fun fact screens can't produce "brown".

Yes, but also both. (a simple example follows)

Think of it like you being at work or home. If I check your house, either you're there, or you aren't. If you're there, you're at home, simple. If not at home, you're at work.

Same with your work: either you're there when I check - or you aren't, therefore at home.

But before I check either location (it's understood that you are only in 1 of those 2 places), you are effectively in both places, and neither place, all at once.

What if all particles are waves. They just temporarily form loops that we consider to have particle behaviour when observed on a larger scale.