this one could go troll or dumbass, hard to tell
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.
Jesus people are dumb.
First time I hear them being referred to as “Jesus people”
Well I guess there was an implied comma but this works too I guess. 🤣
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.
It’s particularly choice that the reader-added context uses simple.Wikipedia.org
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.
I wonder if they think “reflection” only means the kind of reflection you see in a mirror.
specular, rather than diffuse, for reference
when i do it is called spectacular
I wonder how would the percentage of the people believing it change depending on the Moon’s albedo
Everything in the universe reflects light. Except black holes. Only things you cannot see do not reflect light.
Dark matter
dork matter
Lmao gotem
Group hug!
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.
And you know, light sources. They don’t need to reflect any light.
But they still do. It might just be overpowered by the emitted light.
Does a candle really reflect light?
Yes. The flame is a cloud of gas and particulate heated to the point that it glows. It will reflect light. Just not a lot, and it’s also emitting enough light to overpower any reflected light in most conditions.
And of course the candle itself reflects light.
It doesn’t need to reflect any light though.
Yes, paraphene candle reflects light, unless you won’t know that it’s white
I obviously mean the flame.
It only seems like rocks are brighter when you are dumber than a rock.
Rocks are literally brighter than that person :p
Do they think all rocks glow?
These people are walking among us. Worse - they sometimes breed.
I feel for every child that has to find out their parents are fucking stupid.
Honestly, it sucks. I have never been able to take 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.
My dad was the dumbest man I ever knew and he still had wonderful advice sometimes.
I mean, I can say that to you here and you can only imagine with the limited data, but my dad was duuuuuuumb.
There is value in our idiot parents. We just have to find it.
My dad’s advice sums up basically to “come back to Jesus.” Mom was far worse, but she died recently.
Yeah my dad never bothered me with that, but boy oh boy my mom does.
That was the biggest part of their struggle. My dad was a wild animal and my mom should’ve married a preacher.
She’s married to a man who sees the world like she does now. He’s a good dude and he’s perfect for her. She spent 30 years trying to make it work with my dad.
I like my mom’s husband, but stories could be written about my dad (wasn’t my father, just raised me).
He lived a life that would make some award winning movies look like Sesame Street.
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.
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.
Or better yet, get someone to help you quit.
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
From a distance, I thought this was going to be a 3D printed MST3K logo.
Is this person suggesting it’s a star with well-defined edges?
Cold fusion achieved!
I LOVE that they attached a picture. 🙃
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. Plus, we’ve collected moon rocks during the numerous moon landings.
Also, it wouldn’t look like a static hard circle in the sky, it would look like plasma.
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.
If you can see it, it’s reflecting light
