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I had to explain to a co-worker today, that the far side of the moon and the shadow side is not the same thing. I’m amazed how uninformed some people are.
This problem is english language specific. It’s called the dark side of the moon. In french, we say “face cachée”: hidden side.
Wait a second…
In theory we’d have an XK class event pretty much monthly
It’s only the far side from Earth.
Certainly not Earth so maybe Pluto?
They even did call it the far side, not the dark side.
Because the dark side of the moon is in fact not dark most of the time.
Because the dark side of the moon is in fact not dark most of the time.
Exactly half of the time right?
Ironically, the dark side of the moon is lit a bit more than the light side. Dark side is gonna be almost exactly half of the time, light side is a bit less because it’s the side facing the sun during lunar eclipses.
Same argument for the dark side of the moon getting more light than the earth because of solar eclipses (if we’re comparing % light coverage, not total photons).
I guess she never thought about how moon cycles work.
But also, one could’ve probably told her that the reason it was light was because they went up there during the day (which is technically true from the perspective of the moon).One thing I hadn’t really thought of before was the reason as to why one side of the moon is always facing earth, aka tidal locking, so that was a fun read.
This is actually neither the far side nor the near side; it’s in between the two.
The “side side”?
Woohoo. Side-moon!
You’re ill-informed!
Other explained this in more detail, but TLDR:
The moon waxes and wanes from earth’s perspective throughout the month, yet half the moon is always facing the sun. Just being tidally locked doesn’t mean it doesn’t get sun.
As someone else said:
Dark Side ≠ Far Side
Yeah, it makes a lot more sense when you consider that the far side has to be lit during an eclipse.
Solar eclipse. The near side is blocked from being lit in a lunar eclipse
The headlights of the spaceship of course
They used the flash duhh…
Headcanon just explained it to her like i would explain it to my 5 year old niece. With apples or something.
I diagrammed it on the whiteboard at work to explain it to the accountant who:
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Believed the far side of the moon was always in shadow
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Believed that we had not yet seen the far side of the moon.
So I taught her a little history and a little celestial mechanics and now she understands.
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Clearly fake, they don’t want us to know about the Nazi bases.
Integrity’s headlights
