Is the moon real? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: In Vacuo Veritas
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2018, 04:52:33 pm
content: It supposedly weighs 70000000000000000000000 kilos but it just hangs there and doesn't fall down?LOLPS: Yes, I know it doesn't weigh anything since it's in free fall. Thank you.

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2018, 04:56:53 pm
content: Lol, very funny.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2018, 05:01:03 pm
content: no dinosaurs were playing baseball and something got stuck in orbit

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 21, 2018, 09:01:03 pm
content: Quote from: In Vacuo Veritas on December 21, 2018, 04:52:33 pmCrap you mean it's going to hit us?

author: Domagoj T
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2018, 09:39:08 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on December 21, 2018, 09:01:03 pmNah, don't worry about it. Its aim isn't all that stellar. In fact, and somewhat paradoxically, even though it is constantly falling towards the Earth, it is still managing to keep fallingawayfrom the Earth. Moon is weird in that way. Definitely a hologram.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 21, 2018, 09:44:33 pm
content: Yea that's why we can't see the other side.

author: Domagoj T
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2018, 09:53:45 pm
content: Of course. When they built it, the graphics card weren't beefy enough to render the 3D rotating object in real time, so they settled for a static 8-bit gray scale sprite.Now it's too late to change it.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 04:54:55 am
content: I've seen a few bits of tech like that....

author: GregDunn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 06:26:03 am
content: Stand on the sea shore at low tide and keep saying out loud "Is the Moon real?" We'll get back to you.

author: Domagoj T
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 07:05:57 am
content: Well, the shores are not real either. Don't you see they can't even decided where the water begins. Obviously their PID controller that monitors the water level is out of whack, oscillating an all.

author: MarkF
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 09:15:00 am
content: NO... We all live in a locker at the bus depot

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 09:18:12 am
content: Of course the moon is real, that's where the Nazi bases are.So looking forward to this. Guaranteed to be some fine laughs.

author: Whales
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 09:19:12 am
content: Quote from: Domagoj T on December 22, 2018, 07:05:57 amThis seems to be related with the simulation timestep. Smaller ocean connected areas (eg estuaries, lagoons) are more stable.QuoteThe moon's deprecated, expected to be removed in a future version.

author: Howardlong
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 09:39:10 am
content: No the moon can’t be real, studies show the tide is turning.

author: JackJones
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 09:51:56 am
content: Well, they did send an expedition there once. Turns out it's made out of Wensleydale.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 10:02:59 am
content: Quote from: Simon on December 21, 2018, 09:44:33 pmTherewasa "Dark side of the Moon", until October 1959 when Luna 3 took the first photos of the farside.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 10:06:56 am
content: Quote from: JackJones on December 22, 2018, 09:51:56 amDon't be silly. Wensleydale is amaturecheese, not agreencheese.And rather nice it is too, provided is hasn't been cut, wrapped in plastic, refridgerated and sold in a supermarket.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 10:17:19 am
content: i bought some rubin cheese recently by accident. right into the trash can it smelled like I opened a bag filled with shit

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 12:13:58 pm
content: Quote from: In Vacuo Veritas on December 21, 2018, 04:52:33 pmWell, do the laws of gravity always hold?

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 01:35:07 pm
content: When the astronauts discovered the Moon was NOT cheese they packed up their bags and went home.A little cow told me that.But, seriously, folks, there are some good arguments for setting up an observatory on the far side of the Moon, that I am sure everybody here can understand.Hint: Less RFI and less light pollution.The downside is all the data collected would have to be relayed around the moon to be transmitted back to Earth either from a satellite or from a stationary high gain antenna on the other side.

author: Domagoj T
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 05:53:44 pm
content: Other disadvantages:Moon has seismic activityMoon dust is devastating for mechanics (although there shouldn't be much of the dust being picked up other then during landing)During the 14 day long night the temperature drops quite a bit, and during the 14 day long day it gets quite toasty. Thermal management could be an issue.

author: edpalmer42
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2018, 06:21:10 pm
content: Is the moon real?Well, yes and no......

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2018, 04:44:31 am
content: Of course it's real - real bleu cheese. It's small chunks that make it to Earth that we get the bleu cheese we eat and make dips from.

author: Electro Detective
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2018, 09:24:52 am
content: Quote from: cdev on December 22, 2018, 01:35:07 pmA mouse told me they did the runner because there was no gold, diamonds, oil, coal, uranium, kryptoniteor 'love you long time' alien hookers

author: doobedoobedo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2018, 10:01:26 am
content: Obviously we only see one side of the moon because it's flat.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2018, 11:49:22 am
content: Quote from: doobedoobedo on December 23, 2018, 10:01:26 amExcept that we can see 59% of the lunar surface from earth, due to libration

author: doobedoobedo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2018, 01:06:43 pm
content: Quote from: tggzzz on December 23, 2018, 11:49:22 amMere details.

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2018, 01:24:27 pm
content: Quote from: In Vacuo Veritas on December 21, 2018, 04:52:33 pmAre YOU real?If so - prove it.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2018, 06:09:51 pm
content: Quote from: doobedoobedo on December 23, 2018, 01:06:43 pmIndeed. Never let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.

author: fsr
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 24, 2018, 01:05:17 am
content: LOL! Very funny!!Everyone knows that the moon is an artifact from an ancient alien race, because the earth is flat, so it's impossible for gravity to hold it there. It's all a great conspiracy!! It's such a big conspiracy that nobody even knows who would benefit from such a global scam!!

author: Electro Detective
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 24, 2018, 07:37:34 am
content: There's a Science-tology? place I drive past that welcomes all with free tea and coffeeYou reckon those dudes will have some answers?If toast and biscuits are part of the deal, I may take them up on it and pick their brains

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 24, 2018, 04:27:51 pm
content: Electro-Detective, have you heard the story of Xenu?Its the Scientologists' cosmology or origin myth. Iwouldlike to hear what they say if you show up at their headquarters and ask them about that.Way back in the day my friends and I used to play along and pretend to be gullible when approached by various cults, just to see where they would take it. There used to be a surplus as far as wacky cults and various new age religions in California, especially in the Bay Area. All sorts of them. Every kind of group you could possibly imagine, so this was a lot of fun.But let me give you a tip, hold on to your shoes! Don't let them take away your shoes.

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 24, 2018, 06:00:20 pm
content: The moon is moving away from the earth at ~ 3.8 cm/year.And that is theorized to be causing the rotation of our planet to gradually slow down.27 leap seconds have been added since 1972 to keep current with sidereal time.That last leap second was a couple of years ago, so we are pretty close for now.Did we have a transient glitch in GPS at 23:59:60 on 2016-Dec-31?

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 24, 2018, 07:30:55 pm
content: That's no moon....Actually, the moon IS an alien spacecraft in disguise. Anyone else read this?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutineers%27_Moon

author: Circlotron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 24, 2018, 09:23:01 pm
content: Quote from: edpalmer42 on December 22, 2018, 06:21:10 pmOh, Schrodinger’s moon.Right...

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 24, 2018, 10:02:10 pm
content: Quote from: Circlotron on December 24, 2018, 09:23:01 pmAh, that explains why half the time I look up at night and the moon is there, and half the time it isn't.

author: Electro Detective
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 25, 2018, 12:01:31 am
content: Dunno guys, I can think of better things to do with a mooncraftrather than waste juice hovering over earth keeping tabs on the little people below, scamming and or making fools of themselves year in year outPerhaps whoever is up there is dead (methane poisoning?) and the rig is on auto pilot ?

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 25, 2018, 10:25:47 am
content: all those apollo astronauts came back a bit weird because the lunar partying with the illuminati was too hard

author: Kilrah
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 25, 2018, 10:35:30 am
content: Nope, just CGI. But just like the rest of what we see

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 25, 2018, 02:58:50 pm
content: Yes, because I have personally pointed an antenna at the moon, sent out a signal, and received a signal back about 2.4 seconds later. Granted, it wasn't my equipment, but ham radio moonbounce work was kinda cool.http://ve2zaz.net/Presentations/Downloads/VE2ZAZ_EME_Presentation.pdf

author: A Hellene
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 26, 2018, 07:21:55 am
content: Of course the Moon (orSelene: the ancient name forthe Earth's moon, meaning 'the bright one') is real because, as stated previously,EME Communicationscan verify that distance any time.Another little known fact is that two of the most ancient Hellenic bloodliness, theArcadiansand theSelloihave always been calling themselves«Προσέληνοι»('proselenoi'), meaning that they existed,they were there, beforeSelene! This is something that has been stated by Herodotus and lots of others (Apollonius of Rhodes,Ovid,Hesychius of Alexandria, inSoudas encyclopedic lexicon, etc.); evenDemocritusandAnaxagoraswere teaching that there was an era when the Earth had no moon.-George

author: Domagoj T
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 26, 2018, 08:05:13 am
content: Of course there was Earth before Moon, but to claim that there was civilisation before it will require quite a bit of support.AFAIK, the leading hypothesis on formation of the Mood states that a planet sized rock collided with Earth and partially merged, while the Moon formed from the debris. Such collision is not survivable for anything but perhaps the most primitive single cell organisms.All our estimates of the age of the Moon far preceed the humanity.

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2019, 08:01:07 pm
content: Interesting! I have a copy of (Herodotus's) 2400 year old 'the Histories' and its great light reading.Quote from: A Hellene on December 26, 2018, 07:21:55 am

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 18, 2019, 09:49:00 pm
content: Sometimes the moon glitches out, and stays stuck and is seen in the day. I think it's just a bug in the code that generates the hologram. I believe it uses DLP technology and sometimes the mirrors get stuck.There is a scheduled reboot on the 20th to correct an issue so you might see it disappear for a bit. They are replacing some of the bulbs in the lighting module.

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 18, 2019, 10:04:15 pm
content: When it appears to "go dark" every month from our POV, maybe it turns so that we could see the back side if it weren't for the shadows. Is that when the Russians send back all the telemetry?

author: Kilrah
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 18, 2019, 10:20:45 pm
content: Gotta shine a big fat laser at it to check... If it's got a DMD we might get a unicorn picture in return.