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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

The moon does not change color. The atmosphere does, though.

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 14 hours ago

It's all marketing spam by Big Moon to sell more moon.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 10 hours ago

That's how they can afford the second moon space station.

This is actually a conspiracy theory. Some people think there are two moons; the real one and a fake one that's actually a space station. They think that's the reason the moon rises and sets twice a day.

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

The space thing is so silly. Everyone knows there's one moon and one dwarf planet that the lizard people come from.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 10 hours ago

I'm upset that I can't find the theory anywhere anymore. I saw it on a list of weird conspiracies, but all of my attempts to look it up are flooded by moon landing conspiracies.

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago
[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 2 points 1 hour ago
[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Me too. That was a good time.

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 2 points 1 hour ago

i also miss when sites had a visitor counter and a guestbook! D: fuck I'm old.

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 minutes ago

OMFG! I forgot about guestbooks! Those were the days. I'm old too.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

That’s how they getcha.

[-] webp@mander.xyz 5 points 10 hours ago
[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Luna inhabitants are much more advanced on society issues than we are

[-] redsand@infosec.pub 5 points 11 hours ago

I remember this post from reddit. Such a good photography project

[-] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

"The Blood Moon rises once again."

[-] degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io 4 points 12 hours ago

Mostly atmospheric effects, though you get some unique colors during a lunar eclipse.

[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 30 points 19 hours ago

I'm going to take a swing at the moon reflects a relatively uniform spectrum of light from the sun but our varied atmospheric conditions can alter the refraction of that light.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Yup. Always appears in shades of grey from Quebec, Canada…

[-] murmelade@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago

It changes color based on mood.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Why *does* the moon *appear* in so many colors?

[-] username_1@programming.dev 11 points 19 hours ago

I bet it always looks the same way from the space.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Well, if you leave it out in the rain, you’ll start to se corrosion appear. But a little vinegar and baking soda should clean it right up.

Idk where that purple one is coming from, though.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

It's like morse code but using colours. A message from God that no one has yet to decipher. /s

[-] dis_da_mor@anarchist.nexus 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

part of the moon's light is not only reflected from the sun but also earth. there are also lots of variations of what dust or other weather that the sky contains.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 17 hours ago

part of the moon's light is not only reflected from the sun but also earth

Once in a blue moon.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 5 points 19 hours ago

Why does it always photograph so much smaller than it looks?

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 16 hours ago

Because we automatically compare the moon with objects on the horizon and they makes it look big in our mind, but if you objectively compare it to the entire sky it's small.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago

I don't think that's all. A friend and I spent half an hour debating whether an object was the moon or a huge billboard, because it was aligned with a building on the horizon. But I took a picture and it wasn't nearly big enough to span the roof of the building we were looking at.

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