Ernest Hancock
Letters to the Editor • Space Travel and Exploration
The "dark side of the moon" only exists as a Pink Floyd Album
In order for your assertion to be true, one half the Earth would not be able to see the moon without traveling to the other half. Since we know that that's not the case, and we know that the moon does not rotate, a permanent dark side is an impossibility. If you doubt this statement, it's easily proven. Take a bottle cap and mark a short line back toward the center. Now rotate it around a larger object without rotating the bottle cap.
Editors Reply
"The Dark Side of the Moon" is a refference to the fact that it is always "dark to us (that we never see it). The Earth's moon spins at the same rate as its orbit around the Sun,... One Revolution = One Orbit.
Sooooo, while the Moon's "Dark Side" certainly gets Sunshine, we never see it. Thus the phrase "the dark side of the Moon"
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6 Comments in Response to The "dark side of the moon" only exists as a Pink Floyd Album
It appears that only Powell has a sense of humor on this site. Moly Hackrel!
"The Dark Side of the Moon" is a figure of speech – my gosh, when did it become my job to explain this here?
The side of the Moon facing the Sun is bright, and the side that doesn’t, is dark.…[LOL but ^#!_*!!!]. That’s all what you need to know … no need to show that you have a mind of a rocket scientist because you have a Bechelor’s Degree in Cosmology from the University of Hard Knocks.
The Metaphor behind this expression is that if you are in the dark side of the Moon, you cannot see the bright light of the Sun ... the brightness that symbolizes the light of reason or knowledge.
Application: For example, you are in the dark side of the Moon if you believe that Immigration will turn America into a Third Country because there will be no enough resources, which is baloney. You are grouping in the dark side of the Moon if you cannot see that because of scientific discoveries, inventions and advance technology, the world has unlimited space, food, water and energy resources that even 9.3 billion of humans inhabiting this planet cannot overcrowd or consume in 290 million years if you start counting these infinitum years starting today.
You will have an opportunity to see this light of reason if you are in the bright side, not the dark side, of the Moon when you read the revelations in those letter-articles:
Part I. Understanding The World’s Unlimited Resources
Environment
Technology rules the world! Only few understand much more are unaware what technology does to our civilization. The Myth: As the world’s population increases, humankind will disappear like dinosaurs from the face of the earth because of lack of … Read Letter
Letter Written by bakadude
Date of Letter: 2010-11-05
Immigration & Population Lies That Our World Will End Should Be Exposed
Immigration
This recycled calumny needs to be exposed to public viewing. To protect our reading public, this immigration and population misrepresentation and disinformation have to be uncovered and the truth revealed. Targets of the truth campaign are recycled … Read Letter
Letter Written by bakadude
Date of Letter: 2010-11-03
"All surfaces of the moon are visible to the Earth at one time or another."
Completely untrue. The moon rotates around the Earth, but does not rotate around itself.
The moon is coated on one side with part of the surface of the Earth as it shot through it and then exited into orbit. This coating made it denser on one side. That side points always towards the Earth's gravity which is why the moon does not spin about an axis.
What I'd like to know is: Just who is this guy "Floyd", and why is he pink? Was he someone who stayed out in the full moonlight too long and got a moonburn?
"All surfaces of the moon are visible to the Earth at one time or another."
Whatever, you're smoking, put it in a ziplock and send it immediately to the Freedom's Phoenix workshop. That's gotta be some good stuff.
Evidently you never tried the suggested experiment. Regardless of the moons relationship to the sun, we live on the Earth. All surfaces of the moon are visible to the Earth at one time or another.