• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      The meme says it is.

      The moon’s dark side is not actually dark though. The moon is always facing earth from the same side. The dark side of three moon refers to the side that’s not visible from earth, not a side that’s always dark.

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        11 hours ago

        Yeah, but we can clearly see Earth from that spot, so it can’t be the dark/far side

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          8 hours ago

          We aren’t at that spot, but in space above and behind it. Our horizon is different to the horizon at the prism, and on the surface there the Earth may well be slightly below the local horizon. Hard to say for certain since this is AI slop and the perspective may be wonky.

          That being said, the prism is so tall that it would probably still be at least slightly visible from the Earth.

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            8 hours ago

            I would go on on what the Sun’s direction tells us about the location, but I think it is too unrealistic to even attempt to deduce something from it

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        13 hours ago

        That’s the far side of the moon, not the dark side. The dark side is the side that isn’t facing the sun, and that’s changing constantly.

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          13 hours ago

          Only if you take it literally. Oftentimes people call the far side the dark side (dark as in unseen).

          Although the far side does get a lot darker than the near side during lunar nights, since Earthshine never reaches it.

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    13 hours ago

    Heywood Floyd? Shouldn’t it be rectangular and black?