Jesus people are dumb.
I wanna ROCK
Submitted 4 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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billwashere@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 months ago
First time I hear them being referred to as “Jesus people”
billwashere@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well I guess there was an implied comma but this works too I guess. 🤣
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I have a coworker who insists that global warming is a hoax because plants give off oxygen, not carbon dioxide. Can’t even get a foothold in that kind of stupid.
subtext@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s particularly choice that the reader-added context uses simple.Wikipedia.org
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Wait, as far as I understand, this is a wikipedia page for severely Learning disabled people? Great, since I know a lot of idiots.
GambaKufu@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s for children, people with learning difficulties, and/or people still learning English. …wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:How_to_write_Simple_En…
Kaelygon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s condensed content with simpler terms and plain English. Helpful for those who aren’t native English speakers like Gamba said and I’d add it comes handy in some topics like biology which can have very specialized vocabulary.
_edge@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
The reflection (scattering) of light can be seen on the picture they choose to make their point. Sure, the comment is correct that anything you can see scatters light otherwise you would not see it, but in the picture it is particular obvious where the light source is from the reflection on the rock.
sudo_bash@midwest.social 4 months ago
I wonder if they think “reflection” only means the kind of reflection you see in a mirror.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
specular, rather than diffuse, for reference
Thorry84@feddit.nl 4 months ago
It’s also a pretty dumb rock to use as an example. If the moon were that color it would be way brighter than it is currently. And with a rock as shiny as that you would clearly see a reflection of the sun as well.
In real life the moon is about as bright as dark asphalt and because of all the dust it is very dull as well. So a matt black paint would probably be closer to what the moon looks like. Still bright as hell compared to the nothingness that surrounds it. Our eyes are also very good at low light conditions, once we get used to the dark a little bit of light goes a long way. So we can even pick out shadows in the moonlight on earth. A brighter moon would be annoying I think, imagine having some nights that look like early evening on a sunny day. But if we evolved with it we would be used to it I guess.
Just like with flat earth the glowing moon theory fails to explain the phases of the moon or things like eclipses. And why the glow doesn’t follow black body radiation, but instead perfectly follows the tell tale signs of reflected sunlight, Fraunhofer lines and all. And where the energy to generate that light would come from, making something glow as bright as the moon takes a lot of power. And why that power source selectively lights some parts some of the time. And where does the sunlight that hits the moon ends up, if it’s not reflected.
I would think it’s a troll, but these days you’d never know. Even if a troll for example claims vaccines cause autism for the grift, idiots still believe it.
Gutek8134@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I wonder how would the percentage of the people believing it change depending on the Moon’s albedo
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Everything in the universe reflects light. Except black holes. Only things you cannot see do not reflect t light.
tweeks@feddit.nl 4 months ago
And things in itself that are too small to see with even a microscope do not reflect light right? Light might interact there but will not reflect in the usual sense, it can however emit light though. As far as I understand that is.
Entropywins@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There is a lot to it wavelength, size of reflecting object (if it’s smaller than the wavelength it can’t reflect anything back also applies to emitting photons), reflectance or the fraction of light reflected at the surface of the object (the energy it obsorbs vs energy it kicks back), phase shift, if the photon is traveling from one medium to another with a lower or higher refractive index (redirection of a wave as it passess from one medium to another) it will change the oscillations (kinda like a feedback loop, photons effect electrons in the medium and electrons effect photons right back) like looking at a pencil behind a glass of water distorts what you see. I probably missed some things but I gotta admit it always fascinates me to think about light and reflection.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
except you can still arguably see things that don’t reflect light, if you were anywhere near a black hole (let’s imagine it has no accretion disk and thus isn’t surrounded by a bunch of light) it’d be pretty obvious what with the bending of light and how it’s a disk of pure blackness against the backdrop of stars.
lud@lemm.ee 4 months ago
And you know, light sources. They don’t need to reflect any light.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
The event horizon isn’t a physical object. Does a singularity reflect light? (I’m guessing it’s still a no)
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Once something moves past the horizon any light that bounced off it would be pulled towards the center with it. Effectively making it non reflective. It’s possible all the energy from being crushed into a singularity causes a glow around it, like the disk around the outer area of a black hole. If that’s the case, the glow itself would also be sucked immediately into the singularity.
Most scientists just default to we don’t know anything about the singularity.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
The event horizon is the effect of the object not reflecting light.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Never seen a singularity so would have to agree it doesn’t. Visible Event Horizons are made up of matter that does reflect light, but if there is no matter involved only light you would likely see is distorted as it passes through it from other sources
enbyecho@lemmy.world 4 months ago
In only seems like rocks are brighter when you are dumber than a rock.
LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Rocks are literally brighter than that person :p
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Do they think all rocks glow?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 months ago
I mean, technically rocks do glow.
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Technically everything glows.
Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
These people are walking among us. Worse - they sometimes breed.
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I feel for every child that has to find out their parents are fucking stupid.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Honestly, it sucks. I have never been able to ask advice from either of my parents as an adult. Of course as a teen they seemed dumb to me, but even then I recognized that I was a teenager and that perception was typical for my age. But they never got any smarter. Frankly, the older I’ve grown, the more like children my parents seem to me. As a kid they always told me I was super smart. Now as an adult, do they listen to me if I try to correct their mistakes? They do not. They’ve been suckers for cons my whole life.
And no, I’m nowhere near as smart as they led me to think.
Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 4 months ago
Intelligence is not stored in the balls
theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh now, come on. My family believes some bizarre shit and I’m glad they did enough of the hibbity dibbity to get me here.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
The only time something doesn’t reflect light is if it’s painted in that special black that’s even darker than vanta black, because that’s what makes it so black; it absorbs all light instead of reflecting any.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 months ago
And even that reflects a teeny tiny bit of light.
BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A coating, which is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes. Absorbs 99.995% of visible light. Vanta: A mere 99.96%.
Klear@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Black holes don’t reflect any light at all as far as I know. They do emit some light via hawking radiation, but that’s not really reflecting.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Breathing is fake. You really don’t have to breath. Don’t accept this group delusion. Quit breathing. You can do it just keep trying to quit.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Or better yet, get someone to help you quit.
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
They should just be rugged individuals and use a bag, it helps get over the ingrained Marxist socialist brainwashing that will get them fake breathing as soon as they pass out from the overwhelming yearning to be free.
The bag on their head shows they must break the yoke of communism and be independent
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Is this person suggesting it’s a star with well-defined edges?
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Cold fusion achieved!
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
From a distance, I thought this was going to be a 3D printed MST3K logo.
Earflap@reddthat.com 4 months ago
NO! You can see things because light hits it, not becuz it reflects it STOOPIT ^\s
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I LOVE that they attached a picture. 🙃
oo1@lemmings.world 4 months ago
radioactive cheese
Corno@lemm.ee 4 months ago
If it doesn’t reflect light, it’d be black. If it emitted its own light then there wouldn’t be shadows in the craters of the moon and we also wouldn’t have moon phases. It’s hard to tell if this person is actually being serious because this is literally just entry level physics.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Also, it wouldn’t look like a static hard circle in the sky, it would look like plasma.
TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 4 months ago
I used to canoe on this lake in Wales, someone had attached a buoy to a gate and chucked it in, presumably as a marker…from where our camp was, the buoy looked shiny and metallic. It was actually white and partly covered in grime. Distance does weird shit.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Everybody wants a rock…
ochi_chernye@startrek.website 4 months ago
I mean, what else are you gonna wind a piece of string around?
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 months ago
If rocks emit their own light, how come you can land on them?
Kvoth@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you can see it, it’s reflecting light
Kanda@reddthat.com 4 months ago
But I can see light. Is light reflecting light? What else am I being lied to about?
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 4 months ago
I think the nutcake / troll was trying to convey that the rock is emitting light. Which is no less stone bonkers and a load of old cobblers, but here we are.
Kvoth@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well I caught that
niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 months ago
IS THAT A TWISTED SISTER DELTA PLEDGE PIN?!!
ON YOUR UNIFORM?!!I wanna ROCK
(insert banjo twang here)
LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 months ago
ROCK !!! Duh duh duh Duh dah dah
PhAzE@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Mirrors
expatriado@lemmy.world 4 months ago
this one could go troll or dumbass, hard to tell
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 4 months ago
Probably started as a troll and picked up by dumbasses
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I wonder if the Finland conspiracy has any genuine believers yet…
M137@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s fucking impossible to know nowadays, it has even gone into “this is so crazy that it can’t be a troll” territory. I’m at a loss of words almost daily from the level of idiocy and ignorance that infects every damn comment section everywhere. The bar for most stupid imaginable is racing lower and lower every damn second, and it’s already WAY beyond what should be possible.