What’s on the dark side of the moon ?

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Edited Date/Time 12/12/2021 9:46am
This is interesting …. Sure doesn’t look natural ….


https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/rover-moon-cube-1.6277567
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Falcon 12/8/2021 8:48am
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That's where the Monolith is buried, duh.
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There is no dark side of the moon really.... matter of fact it's all dark .
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1) Speak to Me/Breathe
2) On the Run
3) Time
4)The Great Gig in the Sky
5) Money
6) US and Them
7) Any colour You like
8) Brain Damage
9) Eclipse
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Lomech wrote:
1) Speak to Me/Breathe 2) On the Run 3) Time 4)The Great Gig in the Sky 5) Money 6) US and Them 7) Any colour You...
1) Speak to Me/Breathe
2) On the Run
3) Time
4)The Great Gig in the Sky
5) Money
6) US and Them
7) Any colour You like
8) Brain Damage
9) Eclipse
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dirtbikeologist 12/8/2021 10:07am
12/8/2021 10:07am
Technically there is no dark side of the moon because the sun's rays reach every square inch of the moon's surface in a lunar cycle. But there is a side of the moon that never faces the Earth and can never be seen from Earth...
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MotoTribology 12/8/2021 10:24am
12/8/2021 10:24am
Well thank goodness that's been answered. For a second there, I thought this might get bogged down in pointless semantics.
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ATKpilot99 12/8/2021 10:29am
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They spend all that money on a rover and what strap a flip phone camera to it ?
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Falcon 12/8/2021 11:22am
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ATKpilot99 wrote:
There is no dark side of the moon really.... matter of fact it's all dark .
I was waiting for this quote. Well done.
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Falcon 12/8/2021 11:24am
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ATKpilot99 wrote:
They spend all that money on a rover and what strap a flip phone camera to it ?
This. At first, I thought it was a hundred miles away or something. Then I found out that it's 80 meters away and it will take 3 months to get there. Dang, we need better rovers! (Well, the Chinese do!)
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flyingeek423 12/8/2021 11:25am
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I bet it's the room NASA used to film (fake) the first moon landing. Whistling
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flyingeek423 wrote:
I bet it's the room NASA used to film (fake) the first moon landing. Whistling
Grinning Grinning Grinning
MotoTribology 12/8/2021 12:49pm
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I thought they had it equipped with the gameboy camera
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MotoTribology wrote:
I thought they had it equipped with the gameboy camera [img]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fG7pQAx54Ps/maxresdefault.jpg[/img]
I thought they had it equipped with the gameboy camera
Game Boy had a camera?

Man, talk about being ahead of times.
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Lomech wrote:
1) Speak to Me/Breathe 2) On the Run 3) Time 4)The Great Gig in the Sky 5) Money 6) US and Them 7) Any colour You...
1) Speak to Me/Breathe
2) On the Run
3) Time
4)The Great Gig in the Sky
5) Money
6) US and Them
7) Any colour You like
8) Brain Damage
9) Eclipse
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Every precious dream and vision
Underneath the stars, yes, you climbed on the ladder
With the wind in your sails
You came like a comet
Blazing your trail too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon
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Falcon 12/9/2021 8:54am
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66TR66 wrote:
Every precious dream and vision Underneath the stars, yes, you climbed on the ladder With the wind in your sails You came like a comet Blazing...
Every precious dream and vision
Underneath the stars, yes, you climbed on the ladder
With the wind in your sails
You came like a comet
Blazing your trail too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon
Oh damn, I love that song.

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G-man 12/9/2021 9:17am
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It's the Factory where they are building the UFO's! Duh! Woohoo

Do I havta explain EVERYTHING to you guys! Cool
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TropicPilot 12/9/2021 12:23pm
12/9/2021 12:23pm
I'd like this to be a game changer as much as anybody, but those low-resolution pics can be deceiving at first. I remember when the "Face on Mars" got mapped out with some high-res imaging and it was disappointing.




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ns503 12/9/2021 6:06pm
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You didn't really expect Apollo to bring their shitter back with them did you?
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Robgvx 12/9/2021 7:31pm
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One would have to conclude that if they’re bothering to drive for two months to check it out that they must be convinced that it’s not just something trivial or a photo aberration.
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66TR66 12/9/2021 11:48pm
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66TR66 wrote:
Every precious dream and vision Underneath the stars, yes, you climbed on the ladder With the wind in your sails You came like a comet Blazing...
Every precious dream and vision
Underneath the stars, yes, you climbed on the ladder
With the wind in your sails
You came like a comet
Blazing your trail too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon
Falcon wrote:
Oh damn, I love that song.
Yep, all time classic from Scottish Band The Waterboys.
Check out Two LadsHave a Singalong in the Pub on Youtube.
You will thank me. Just sensational especially how loaded the singer is, he must been right in the sweet spot.
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HD1200 12/10/2021 9:51am
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dirtbikeologist wrote:
Technically there is no dark side of the moon because the sun's rays reach every square inch of the moon's surface in a lunar cycle. But...
Technically there is no dark side of the moon because the sun's rays reach every square inch of the moon's surface in a lunar cycle. But there is a side of the moon that never faces the Earth and can never be seen from Earth...
Excuse my ignorance but does that mean the moon doesn't rotate on its axis?
dirtbikeologist 12/10/2021 10:46am
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dirtbikeologist wrote:
Technically there is no dark side of the moon because the sun's rays reach every square inch of the moon's surface in a lunar cycle. But...
Technically there is no dark side of the moon because the sun's rays reach every square inch of the moon's surface in a lunar cycle. But there is a side of the moon that never faces the Earth and can never be seen from Earth...
HD1200 wrote:
Excuse my ignorance but does that mean the moon doesn't rotate on its axis?
The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth so it spins on its axis once for every revolution around the Earth.
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kongols 12/10/2021 11:49am
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dirtbikeologist wrote:
Technically there is no dark side of the moon because the sun's rays reach every square inch of the moon's surface in a lunar cycle. But...
Technically there is no dark side of the moon because the sun's rays reach every square inch of the moon's surface in a lunar cycle. But there is a side of the moon that never faces the Earth and can never be seen from Earth...
HD1200 wrote:
Excuse my ignorance but does that mean the moon doesn't rotate on its axis?
dirtbikeologist wrote:
The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth so it spins on its axis once for every revolution around the Earth.
So, does that mean it rotates once a month? That`s why one lunar day is a month on Earth?
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Robgvx 12/10/2021 12:24pm
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kongols wrote:
So, does that mean it rotates once a month? That`s why one lunar day is a month on Earth?
It means that as it travels around the earth it is rotating at just the right speed that one side of the moon is always facing us. It’s called the ‘dark side’ because we never see that back side. However, if you were standing on that back side you would still have night and day (but you would never get to see the earth)

…I think…
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Robgvx 12/10/2021 12:26pm
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Question for Falcon or someone.

If the Chinese Rover is on the back side, how do they communicate with it? Presumably there must be an orbiting satellite bouncing the signals round to it?
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kongols 12/10/2021 12:28pm
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kongols wrote:
So, does that mean it rotates once a month? That`s why one lunar day is a month on Earth?
Robgvx wrote:
It means that as it travels around the earth it is rotating at just the right speed that one side of the moon is always facing...
It means that as it travels around the earth it is rotating at just the right speed that one side of the moon is always facing us. It’s called the ‘dark side’ because we never see that back side. However, if you were standing on that back side you would still have night and day (but you would never get to see the earth)

…I think…
Yeah, but it does rotate if you look from the Sun, and it rotates once in a month mesured from Earth, right?
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Robgvx 12/10/2021 1:07pm
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kongols wrote:
Yeah, but it does rotate if you look from the Sun, and it rotates once in a month mesured from Earth, right?
Yes, I believe so. It does one rotation in the same time that it travels around the earth. Hence the one side of the moon always faces us.

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