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.
Makes me think the account is satire, knowing nothing else about it outside this thread
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.
also the 1970s weren't some magical time for living a naturalist/naturist life. in the northern empires, lead based paint and lead based fuels were in common use. in the global south, genocidal dictators carried out brutal violence to impress whichever northern empire they were affiliated with.
the fact that she wants to revisit the 1970s speaks to a great degree of access to privilege within capitalism, white supremacy, and even the patriarchy despite her presented gender.
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
She should be more sceptical of how the astronauts transmitted the image ...
5G in space!!!
Obviously with 0g
Exhibit n we're giving out doctorate degrees like candy.
A STEM PhD should be able to read and write at a high level and an PhD in English should have a modicum of knowledge of the world that surrounds us. This type of communication shenanigans only strengthens the current zeitgeist of anti-intellectualism IMHO.
note: That is assuming this isn't a satire account, which it very likely is, I refuse to believe this level of stupidity hasn't been selected against.
Unfortunately it's very real. The author Naomi Klein has a great book about Naomi Wolf called Doppelganger, based on the fact that people keep getting the two of them confused. Her descent into the right-wing conspiracy world is quite a thing.
Quite funny to see someone call Belfast calm and peaceful though. I'm in it quite regularly and usually just want to get out as soon as I can.
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
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.
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.
A lunatic confused by the moon. There's a certain poetry to that.
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
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
But you can’t see the far side from earth…
Right - so?
The headlights of the spaceship of course
They even did call it the far side, not the dark side.
Because the dark side of the moon is in fact not dark most of the time.
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.
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.
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?
They used the flash duhh...
“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.
Is this satire, or is she genuinely confused?
Just an english major trying to science
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....
Starlight?
I really wanted to correct you but alas you are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
She goes by Annie now.
With grammar like that?
This is actually neither the far side nor the near side; it's in between the two.
The "side side"?
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