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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Integrity’s headlights

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ooh I recognize that twitter account. “Ill-informed” is an understatement.

    Are women crazy for worrying that they are spotting and bleeding untimely when around vaccinated women, who are also spotting and bleeding untimely? These researchers show evidence that Mrna vaccination can transmit passively via respiration.

    It was amazing to go to Belfast, which does not yet have 5G, and feel the earth, sky, air, human experience, feel the way it did in the 1970s. Calm, still, peaceful, restful, natural.

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    • hDGGgrLpg8nEucjxWnJz@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I wonder if people living in Belfast in the 1970s would have described it as calm, still, peaceful, restful or natural.

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  • 58008@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    A lunatic confused by the moon. There’s a certain poetry to that.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      This one moons

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  • VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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 train 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.

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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Some questions are best to be asked at an AI of your choice.

    At least it won’t humiliate you

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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Fafa@lemmy.world ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Did Pink Floyd lie to us?

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • prime_number_314159@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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?

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    • DeadDigger@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      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.

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    • BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Philosophy dipshit here. How does a flash of light illuminate an object that big and far away?

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      • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        pretty sure that was a joke

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      • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Philosophy 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!

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  • recklessengagement@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Starlight?

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    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I really wanted to correct you but alas you are technically correct. The best kind of correct.

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    • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      She goes by Annie now.

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    • Venat0r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      can you give me the fame?

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  • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can infer that the far side is illuminated.

      pff, and she calls herself an English major…

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    • Corngood@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      One Pink Floyd album and now we have to deprogram everyone’s misconceptions

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      • thejml@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “There is no dark side of the moon. As a matter of fact it’s all dark” - last lyric on DSoTM.

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    • sik0fewl@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But you can’t see the far side from earth…

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      • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Right - so?

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      • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Earth isn’t a source of light.

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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 he other side…

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    • huf@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      yeah but backface culling means the far side isnt rendered, so it really is dark

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  • commonmarmoset@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “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.

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    • derek@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I was ignorant but curious.

      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?

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      • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        She once suggested periods happen due to vaccines.

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  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is this satire, or is she genuinely confused?

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    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just an english major trying to science

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m half confused. Light source - the sun, just take it when the moon is in it’s new moon phase (side facing earth is dark, side facing sun is light).

      But the moon is tidally locked to earth, we always see the same side, so what is taking the photo?

      Artemis II visited while the far side was dark, so I guess this is an old tweet otherwise why would NASA be releasing it now?

      Happy to be told I’m dumb if I got something wrong…

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What is visible isn’t actually the far side, they’re less than 90 degrees around to the “left.”

        This feature circled in red is called Grimaldi crater:

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        It is visible from the Earth; here is the view of the Moon you’re probably used to seeing with Grimaldi again circled in red:

        Image

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      • generallynonsensical@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I want to make a 2001:ASO reference so bad, with your username and the context and all, but I can’t for the life of me muster any cleverness. I also would love to know the answer. So let’s be dumb together, Dave.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The flash of the camera

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    With grammar like that?

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    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      She did say she “was an English major”

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  • Nomorereddit@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A screenshot from twitter is not a meme.

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  • raman_klogius@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is what your get when you keep referring to it as the “dark side”. Ignoramus esbegets ignoramuses.

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  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No one tell her.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hello, ill-informed, nice to meet you.

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  • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This one actually made my brain stutter for a few minutes. I couldn’t tell whether I’m the dumb one or they.

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  • Bonsoir@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s because they took the photo during a solar eclipse, of course!

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  • VapeNoir@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The moon is made of concentrated aether, duh

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok, you’re ill-informed.

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  • MidnightPocket@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    RETVRN TO HELIOCENTRISM

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  • Blackfeathr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They had the high beams on, duh… 🙄

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  • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    youtu.be/xGoZZvfEd6A

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