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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.
blink fast, heat, bright light Source? I've never heard of this before and can't fathom how that might be possible.
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.
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.
Did Pink Floyd lie to us?
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?
I feel like this needs a /s because people might be dumb enough to actually think a flash of some sort was used to capture these images.
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?
pretty sure that was a joke
My bad haha.
I legit thought you were continuing the joke.
Didn't you know? The enlightenment spreads like an ideology. Traditional physics outplayed.
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?
Just one. See? I just changed it to 15,000,000,000,008 Lumen
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...
But you can’t see the far side from earth…
Right - so?
Earth isn't a source of light.
Well, it is a pretty poor indirect source. Just like the moon lighting things at night by reflecting the sun, Earth does the same.
Headcanon just explained it to her like i would explain it to my 5 year old niece. With apples or something.
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.
Is this satire, or is she genuinely confused?
Not a joke. She has said stupider things in the past.
Tweet is real, I looked it up.
Just an english major trying to science
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...
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:
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:
“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?
Oh wow, I'd heard of her positively in the past, but yeah, she's really summed up as "a conspiracy theorist who found feminism first". Even where I agree with her, she's definitely not who I want representing those ideas.
She once suggested periods happen due to vaccines. Likes complaining about 5G in her spare times too.
Oh, buddy. Ooooof.
This is what your get when you keep referring to it as the "dark side". Ignoramuses beget ignoramuses.
