Ooh I recognize that twitter account. "Ill-informed" is an understatement.
Yeah but they have 4G! THAT IS STRAIGHT POISON!
Jesus fuck. I was born and raised in Belfast, there's absolutely nothing about the experience today (out in 2019) that even remotely resembles the 70's.
I wonder if people living in Belfast in the 1970s would have described it as calm, still, peaceful, restful or natural.
Makes me think the account is satire, knowing nothing else about it outside this thread
She should be more sceptical of how the astronauts transmitted the image ...
5G in space!!!
Obviously with 0g
A lunatic confused by the moon. There's a certain poetry to that.
English major
You're an ill-informed English major. You instructed me to call you that, so I did.
The light source for this image is the Sun.
"The dark side of the moon" is a phrase that seems to have a strange effect on people; they seem to use that phrase to incorrectly mean the far side of the moon, and then that puts the idea in their heads that the far side is always dark. It isn't; the far side is fixed, the dark side is constantly changing.
The Moon is tidally locked to Earth, this means the moon's rotational speed and its orbital period are the same, the moon rotates once on its axis for every one orbit of the Earth it performs, meaning it doesn't (significantly) rotate when seen from Earth. No human saw the far side of the moon until the Soviets flew a satellite around it, and only 27 men and 1 woman have ever seen it with their own eyes. Until this week, those numbers were 24 and 0.
It is hidden from us but not from the Sun; we observe the Earth waxing and waning, being full and then half a month later being new. When the moon is new, the near side is in darkness and the far side is in light. On the Lunar surface, a day and night takes an entire month, while the continents and oceans of the Earth hanging still in space overhead whirl past nearly 30 times.
Finally...the image above isn't the whole far side. About half of the near side is visible; the big dark patch to the right is the Ocean of Storms, most of the Sea of Rain is visible as well. Kepler and Copernicus crater are visible, Tycho is just out of shot, if you look closely you can just barely see one of Tycho's rays across the Sea of Clouds. That one very dark patch just right of center is Grimaldi crater. All those features are visible from the Earth, in fact two of the Apollo landing sites are visible here, 12 and 14. The very large carter, the dark patch to the left of center of the image is Mare Orientale, which is just barely visible on the edge of the Moon from Earth, from our point of view it's on the "side". It's eastern ridge is visible from Earth but we don't really see the dark mare itself.
A good summary. I doubt the person who tweeted (?xed?) that ignorance is going to read it, though. And even if they were to read it, would probably not listen. This is moon-landing-hoax level ignorance and its most likely performative and maliciously intended.
But kudos to you still. I hope your post reaches other ill-informed, but less ignorant people, who need to hear this and might even appreciate, that you are enlightening the dark sides of their knowledge.
That comment was too long to read so instead let me ask you a question: if the sun is here on earth illuminating everything (i can see it, it's bright outside), then how can it also be on the moon illuminating it as well? That's like saying the lightbulb in my house also illuminates your house
The answer is of course that the moon is just a holographic projection created by the lizard-illuminati to sell more moon-themed products
This one moons
Starlight?
I really wanted to correct you but alas you are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
She goes by Annie now.
I get that she's an English major, but how is that an excuse to not know that cameras typically have a flash so they can illuminate the object being photographed?
But there are no swastika shaped star bases in that Foto. As we all know the nazis are up there so this is obviously fake.
Philosophy dipshit here. How does a flash of light illuminate an object that big and far away?
Didn't you know? The enlightenment spreads like an ideology. Traditional physics outplayed.
pretty sure that was a joke
My bad haha.
I legit thought you were continuing the joke.
Philosophical shithead here!
A 15,000,000,000,000 bulb, of course!
But how could we know that that object illuminated by a 15,000,000,000,000 Lumen bulb is even real? For all you know, that massive object illuminated by a 15,000,000,000,000 Lumen bulb could be a fiction, a simple 15,000,000,000,000 Lumen shadow upon the wall!
So how many shitheads does it take to change a 15,000,000,000,000 Lumen bulb?
Some questions are best to be asked at an AI of your choice.
At least it won't humiliate you
Hint:
Far Side ≠ Dark Side
It can be confusing because the far side of the Moon is sometimes also referred to as the Dark Side because it is "dark" to us, in the sense that we cannot see it from Earth.
Did Pink Floyd lie to us?
Yeah, dark in the same meaning as "the dark ages." It's referring to a lack of knowledge, not a lack of light. Both these terms have fallen out of favor though.
Yo I've had to explain to way too many people lately that the far side isn't "dark". When there's a new moon the light is on the other side....
Got a friend who is a bit of a alien conspiracy nut. Shortly before Moonfall he started with the hollow moon alien base theory (I was laughing tears when I saw the trailer). He said the moon is the only satellite in our solar system that doesn't rotate and that is proof.
You should have seen his face when I demonstrated with a phone and a bottle of beer that the moon does indeed rotate once every full orbit. It got even better when I explained that one day we will loose the moon cause it very slowly drifts away from us.
yeah but backface culling means the far side isnt rendered, so it really is dark
Integrity's headlights
If you blink really fast the heat generated by your eyelids makes a very bright light that is very similar to sun rays.
Fortunately for us the 4 astronauts were very well trained with this technique so they each took turns at lighting up the moon while the others took photographs.
In other news it was probably not a good idea to call it the dark side of the moon hence why it's refer to as the far side of the moon.
Good luck with the blinking, stay hydrated.
This make me sad, English major or otherwise. I mean, you can look up at the moon and see when the far side is at least partially illuminated.
You can infer that the far side is illuminated.
pff, and she calls herself an English major...
One Pink Floyd album and now we have to deprogram everyone's misconceptions
"There is no dark side of the moon. As a matter of fact it's all dark" - last lyric on DSoTM.
The flash of the camera
“If the Naomi be Klein/ you’re doing just fine./ If the Naomi be Wolf/ Oh, buddy. Ooooof.”
Jumped a little when I saw the name.
I was ignorant but curious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf
She's got a Doctorate of Philosophy in English Literature from Oxford, is a feminist author, and conspiracy theorist. At a glance I can understand why she's developed a reputation of a certain color.
Care to share any specific grievances?
She once suggested periods happen due to vaccines. Likes complaining about 5G in her spare times too.
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