Comment on The Floyd Artifact

thefluffiest@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The meme says it is.

  The moon’s dark side is not actually dark though. The moon is always facing earth from the same side. The dark side of three moon refers to the side that’s not visible from earth, not a side that’s always dark.

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  • four@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, but we can clearly see Earth from that spot, so it can’t be the dark/far side

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    • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We aren’t at that spot, but in space above and behind it. Our horizon is different to the horizon at the prism, and on the surface there the Earth may well be slightly below the local horizon. Hard to say for certain since this is AI slop and the perspective may be wonky.

      That being said, the prism is so tall that it would probably still be at least slightly visible from the Earth.

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      • four@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I would go on on what the Sun’s direction tells us about the location, but I think it is too unrealistic to even attempt to deduce something from it

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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    • luciferofastora@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s clearly some distance above the moon, judging by the curvature, so it might be capturing both the dark side and the earth.

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  • Slashme@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s the far side of the moon, not the dark side. The dark side is the side that isn’t facing the sun, and that’s changing constantly.

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    • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Only if you take it literally. Usually when people refer to the dark side, they mean the far side.

      Although the far side does get a lot darker than the near side during lunar nights, since Earthshine never reaches it.

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