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The headlights of the spaceship of course
So they have the same kind of headlights that brodozers have, gotcha
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…
yeah but backface culling means the far side isnt rendered, so it really is dark
Shouldn’t it be see through and what you actually see here is just the front side in reverse?
nah, the inner face of the outer shell is also not visible, so not rendered. if you actually managed to look at it, you’d get garbage. usually the remnants of previous frames.
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.
Some questions are best to be asked at an AI of your choice.
At least it won’t humiliate you
Integrity’s headlights
The flash of the camera
Headcanon just explained it to her like i would explain it to my 5 year old niece. With apples or something.
I diagrammed it on the whiteboard at work to explain it to the accountant who:
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Believed the far side of the moon was always in shadow
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Believed that we had not yet seen the far side of the moon.
So I taught her a little history and a little celestial mechanics and now she understands.
Thanks, KSP!
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“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?
She once suggested periods happen due to vaccines. Likes complaining about 5G in her spare times too.
Oh, buddy. Ooooof.
I overestimated the popularity of that quote!
It’s as described elsewhere in the thread. She was an academic with good but incomplete early work, that pivoted hard into the conspiracy world. However because of some almost spooky but incidental similarities to the excellent Naomi Klein, the two were constantly mistaken for one another.
I highly recommend Klein’s book Doppleganger. It’s an analysis of the modern tech/media space that I imagine would very much appeal to the Fediverse user base.
They had the high beams on, duh… 🙄
Certainly not Earth so maybe Pluto?
No one tell her.
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.
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.
RETVRN TO HELIOCENTRISM (nah fuck that doesn’t work either)
Hello, ill-informed, nice to meet you.
A screenshot from twitter is not a meme.
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?
