Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity,sci.physics Subject: Re: Sun Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:31:15 -0800 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: <655EF1B3.1885@ix.netcom.com> References: <6557D1BC.4008@ix.netcom.com> <65584367.48C@ix.netcom.com> <65591773.3F13@ix.netcom.com> <655A80D1.147A@ix.netcom.com> <655ABE44.1BB4@ix.netcom.com> <655AEE47.4585@ix.netcom.com> <56c87087-8e12-40b6-a018-4801095a07b7n@googlegroups.com> <655B0DE6.1675@ix.netcom.com> <655C63B3.3DF8@ix.netcom.com> <655E5476.4A80@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="1916239"; posting-host="nLYg9UBeoMWa070gP9wQcw.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; Cancel-Lock: sha256:B0c53VX9mQgzcupDwmGasGuVypiQnvvp8OiAy5Pi15Q= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 231122-6, 11/22/2023), Outbound message Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:624362 sci.physics:882997 Volney wrote: > > On 11/22/2023 2:52 PM, Paul Alsing wrote: > > > Half of the moon is always dark, just like half of the Earth is always dark, just like every body in the solar system is always half in the dark. When you look at a full moon you are looking at the entire sunlit half, and the rest of the time you are looking at part of the illuminated side and part of the dark side. Why is this so hard for you to understand? > > > > On the other hand you can never see the *far* side of the moon from the surface of the Earth, which, of course is also regularly illuminated by the Sun, just like the near side. > > An obsolete definition of 'dark' is 'unknown', and almost the only time > you'll hear the word 'dark' used this way is 'dark side of the moon', > meaning the (once unknown) far side of the moon. he is toooo busy trying to figure out whether or not the moon revoles around the sun.... he is reading Popular Mechanics issue July, 1928 for answers. -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.