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Ooh I recognize that twitter account. “Ill-informed” is an understatement.
I wonder if people living in Belfast in the 1970s would have described it as calm, still, peaceful, restful or natural.
For people like that “peaceful” means “no brown people”.
Jesus fuck. I was born and raised in Belfast, there’s absolutely nothing about the experience today (out in 2019) that even remotely resembles the 70’s.
Highly recommend the book “Doppelganger” by Naomi Klein where she talks about how weird it is to get confused with Naomi Wolf. A real feminist vs a playactor, just like how the right playacts science and reason by ‘doing their own research’ and playacts working class solidarity by showering the public with populist propaganda while shredding their legal protections
Great book.
Yeah but they have 4G! THAT IS STRAIGHT POISON!
No no no, 3G was deadly up and until 4G came, then 4G was deadly until 5G came around.
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.
This one moons
That comment was too long to read so instead let me ask you a question: if the sun is here on earth illuminating everything (i can see it, it’s bright outside), then how can it also be on the moon illuminating it as well? That’s like saying the lightbulb in my house also illuminates your house
The answer is of course that the moon is just a holographic projection created by the lizard-illuminati to sell more moon-themed products
Nobody on lemmy has a sense of humor lol, jfc.
Because what they said is word for word what some people unironically believe.
It’s not a joke. People are that stupid.
It’s why we have /s they didn’t use it so they are serious. That’s how this works. If you pretend to be a act like a retarded monkey, say things a retarded monkey would say, and you don’t tell people you were joking when there is no physical way to tell otherwise.
People assume you are in fact. A retarded monkey.
I hope they are joking. But I literally have no way to tell.
Oh we can rule out actual discourse on Lemmy, this platform’s already dead in the water. There’s too many ass burgers on here who will take an extremely literal and narrow interpretation of the series of words you typed ignoring any nuance or implication and assuming the examples you chose to cite are the only that exist. At least a few of them are probably employees of the Russian, North Korean or Chinese governments instructed to add truckloads of bad faith to every corner of the English speaking internet.
A lunatic confused by the moon. There’s a certain poetry to that.
English major
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.
One Pink Floyd album and now we have to deprogram everyone’s misconceptions
“There is no dark side of the moon. As a matter of fact it’s all dark” - last lyric on DSoTM.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
Other explained this in more detail, but TLDR:
The moon waxes and wanes from earth’s perspective throughout the month, yet half the moon is always facing the sun. Just being tidally locked doesn’t mean it doesn’t get sun.
As someone else said:
Dark Side ≠ Far Side
Yeah, it makes a lot more sense when you consider that the far side has to be lit during an eclipse.
Solar eclipse. The near side is blocked from being lit in a lunar eclipse
Actually it does, which is often the cause of the misconception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon
So the correct expression would be: Far side / Dark side ≠ Shadow side.
The headlights of the spaceship of course
So they have the same kind of headlights that brodozers have, gotcha
With grammar like that?
Am English major, can confirm many of us throw grammar out of the window when posting online.
My heart sunk when reading the OP, though. “Great, more ammo for snarky remarks.”
It was using “–” as an em-dash out of em-dash context that sent it over the edge.
Imagine an engineer, “Really need to tighten this bolt… Toss me a hammer!”
But, you’re right. Most people online don’t live under the Grammar Nazi rule, for sake of convenience and casual comms. But in the case of this person’s own context, gawd damn. Got their major from Captain Crunch U.
She did say she “was an English major”
This problem is english language specific. It’s called the dark side of the moon. In french, we say “face cachée”: hidden side.
Holy shit, cache comes from “hidden.” I’ve been programming all my life and never realized this.
“Dark” here apparently means “unsern” or “hidden”, but it’s incredibly confusing.
Is this satire, or is she genuinely confused?
Just an english major trying to science
I had to explain to a co-worker today, that the far side of the moon and the shadow side is not the same thing. I’m amazed how uninformed some people are.
They used the flash duhh…
Starlight?
She goes by Annie now.
Hello, ill-informed, nice to meet you.
