does the moon swing around the other way in the southern hemisphere? i think it will if its orbit is anywhere near Equatorial
― koogs, Sunday, February 12, 2023 11:04 PM
The shockingly dumb way I learned this: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/22/8087847/simpsons-southern-hemisphere
― pplains, Monday, 13 February 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
Also, I've been there, and the whole damn sky is upside-down.
the only time i visited sydney i couldn't figure out why my mental map was all wrong - i kept on thinking the coast was in the opposite direction. eventually realised the sun was in the wrong half of the sky.
― ledge, Monday, 13 February 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link
in other shockingly old news, i learned the other day that 'game and watch' was a game and... a watch! i thought it meant you er watched the game. i never owned one btw.
― ledge, Monday, 13 February 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
You never owned a watch?
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 February 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
I mean, you can be forgiven for that seeing as that form factor is hardly close to the modern concept of a watch
― Alba, Monday, 13 February 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
It wasn't until living in the same house for a decade and walking the dog at night that I noticed that full moon would rise over the same spot. Then I noticed when there were planets in the sky, along with the moon, they all formed an arc that more-or-less I could visualize as a ring around Earth, like Saturn. And that gave me a sense of where I was standing on the globe, looking out at that plane passing through the equator.
― bendy, Monday, 13 February 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
thinking about it, the galactic plane and the equator aren't aligned. that's why we have tropics, the 23ish degree axis tilt.
― koogs, Monday, 13 February 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2018-11/TheMoonsOrientation.jpgstill freaks me out
― StanM, Monday, 13 February 2023 20:26 (one year ago) link
not to scale
― koogs, Monday, 13 February 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link
And both sides claim to see a man in the moon, which i don't see at all.
― pplains, Monday, 13 February 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link
xp What I take from that is if you wish to view the moon from the Northern Hemisphere, you are supposed to be wearing a dress. Probably it's a good idea to be at least fifty thousand feet tall.
Life pro tip: if you are fifty thousand feet tall and you're wearing a dress, put on some bike shorts or something.
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 February 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link
there is no right side up of the moon, really
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 February 2023 21:06 (one year ago) link
Near side, far side, we’re all in the same gang.
― after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 February 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
and there is no 'dark side' of the moon, right? just a side that we can't see from the ground, but it's not like it's shrouded in darkness 24/7
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 13 February 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
That's true yeah, we can only see about 55% of the moon's surface from earth, the other side permanently faces away. And although the track of the sun and the moon is on the northern half of the sky here in the southern hemisphere, it doesn't make things flip north-south. South America is still south of North America even when you're in the southern hemisphere. A ship sailing south continues to sail south when it crosses the equator. The moon does not orbit in the same plane as the sun, otherwise there would be total eclipses every month. It's angled at 23° to the sun's plane / ecliptic just like the earth's axis of rotation. Sometimes it's south of the ecliptic, sometimes it's north of the ecliptic.The argument about which is "top" and "bottom" of the moon, or whether the horns point left or right when you're looking at a waxing crescent, is explained in the diagram above. But rising slightly south of east is slightly south of east wherever you are on earth.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 13 February 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link
the bottom of the moon is clearly the point that's nearest the earth
― mark s, Monday, 13 February 2023 22:21 (one year ago) link
even lacking an atmosphere the moon does rotate doesn't it. so the idea of a dark side of the moon being a permanent quality is just a matter of perspective or momentary happenstance. Seems like at one point people thought there was a specific light/dark breakdown of the moon surface one permanently in one condition one in the other. But if that did happen it is before a less terracentric view of the universe came about.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 09:40 (one year ago) link
And both sides claim to see a man in the moon, which i don't see at all.― pplains, Monday, February 13, 2023 8:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― pplains, Monday, February 13, 2023 8:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I just got back from Sri Lanka. They often draw a rabbit in the moon and I could totally see it while I was out there.
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 09:49 (one year ago) link
I just learnt that watermelons and pumpkins are part of the same fruit family.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 09:54 (one year ago) link
and bloody cucumbers, all of them mess me up
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 10:02 (one year ago) link
would you believethey put a rabbit the moon
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 11:28 (one year ago) link
> even lacking an atmosphere the moon does rotate doesn't it.
it's gravity locked to earth so the same side always faces us. meaning we only see one side. but the other side isn't 'dark' as such, it gets as much light as the side we see (moon days are 14 earth days iirc)
the rabbit thing was on QI, along with some people seeing marge simpson.
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 12:12 (one year ago) link
If you believe
They put a Marge on the moon
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 12:37 (one year ago) link
(With apologies to mookieproof)
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 12:39 (one year ago) link
Does a rabbit have a specific status in Indonesian lore or anything?Trickster deity or anything? I think they do elsewhere.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link
https://ahseeit.com//king-include/uploads/2021/01/69564895_879912042392288_6093823431670762695_n-3924907461.jpg
― serif don't like it (rock the typeface) (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
profit wargrown up men discussing the merit of billboard hot 100 pop music
― CerebralCaustic, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
I'm being followed by a moon rabbit, moon rabbit, moon rabbit.
― nickn, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 17:20 (one year ago) link
what the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Moon#/media/File:Man_In_The_Moon2.png
― StanM, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nXrjWe3tR8
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
月のうさぎ
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 18:21 (one year ago) link
can a mod turn all of CerebralCosplay's posts into a pic of Balthazar Getty from Lost Highway.
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
TIL that sometimes doctors use maggots to treat wounds
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Sunday, February 12, 2023 1:38 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol, I just randomly learned this yesterday from a kids book about houseflies that I read to my daughter
― silverfish, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
username checks out
― serif don't like it (rock the typeface) (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 21:59 (one year ago) link
The Jam song title, "Billy Hunt", is rhyming slang.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Monday, 20 February 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
Welp, I just learned that now too. First heard the song 38 years ago and loved it, but found it slightly confusing (likely similar to most American Jam fans’ reactions to many of their songs).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 20 February 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
huh. if it is what i am guessing, i am glad I have the scot form of “Venator.”
― liberal with a capital LIE (Hunt3r), Monday, 20 February 2023 22:31 (one year ago) link
Well, the actual (Cockney) rhyming slang is Berkshire (or Berkeley) Hunt - shortened to "berk" - but it seems pretty obvious to me now that the name "Billy Hunt" was chosen for rhyming reasons (also it's apparently Australian rhyming slang).
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Monday, 20 February 2023 23:11 (one year ago) link
we find it clearer to just use the word
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 20 February 2023 23:38 (one year ago) link
You mean you say Silly Hunt instead of Billy Hunt...
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Monday, 20 February 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
never heard of billy hunt fwiw
― more crankable (sic), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link
Also: 'Unchained Melody' is a cover, the original of which was released a decade before the Righteous Brothers' version.― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:00 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:00 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Also: "Unchained Melody" is a melody written for the 1955 prison film Unchained, hence the title.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 24 February 2023 12:23 (one year ago) link
Oh wow - I always just thought "hmm, that's a fucking odd title but OK"
― Alba, Friday, 24 February 2023 12:45 (one year ago) link
"actually this melody seems pretty chained"
^^^me for years
― mark s, Friday, 24 February 2023 12:49 (one year ago) link
I was shockingly old when I posted that itt a few weeks ago.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 24 February 2023 13:19 (one year ago) link
Pete and Repeat in Riverside Drowning Repost Shockah!
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 February 2023 13:22 (one year ago) link
That the word cigarette just means 'small cigar'.
― into the crypt of ray reardon (Matt #2), Friday, 24 February 2023 13:34 (one year ago) link