Pasquinelthe2nd
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Apr 7, 2026 1:33 PM
Pasquinelthe2nd
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raggeragnar
Re-run from christmas eve 1968. Cool to see it again. Never thought I’d live to see the day.
Hatlled
Nice AI pic ya got there.
notsureIwanttodothisjustyet
Imagine how much more exposure this would be getting, if your pedophile president wasn’t so busy covering up the epstein files through a pointless war.
theskepticinme
Watched it live. Was super cool
Tolocamp
"No matter how fast light was going, there was always darkness already sitting there waiting for it."
unluckyandbored
Neat!
OnyxTurret
Reminds me, I gotta try that Wizard of Oz / Pink Floyd combo.
jalvarez092831415
See!! Earth really is flat! Bet those round earthers feel really silly right now.
hushpuppyextraordinaire
It’s flat , it just the flat plane has a curve to it
SchrodingersDictator
I want to be excited for this. I’ve waited my whole goddamned life for more space exploration. How am I supposed to be excited when I have to worry what new way we’ll all be fucked by my government and I watch the number of states that want me dead keeps going up???
Zetor
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
thunderknight64
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout but no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
ClifSkaylor
There's some heavy handed filtering going on in this shot. Or else it's p-shopped. Because if that upper surface of the earth is getting hit by the sun, that same aspect of the moon would be also.
weo3dev
Perspective-shopped, right? You meant, because-of-the-perspective. Why do you think we have phases of the moon? Is that... is that because the earth is dark then too? You think that's air you're breathing?
Jaqdakloun
Top view of our beautiful flat earth taken from our man-made moon.
CommunCreator
Fun fact: the moon is tidally locked to the earth. This means that it doesn’t rotate, but always presents the same face to the earth. It also means that, when viewed from the surface of the moon, the earth doesn’t rise or set; it just stays in the same position. Which explains why, until 1968 or so, no one had EVER seen the far side.
theskepticinme
It’s rotation is locked to its orbit
ThisNameUnavailable
Aktewully 🤓👆 it DOES rotate - at the same speed at which it revolves around the earth, which is why the same side always faces us. From our perspective it doesn't rotate though, that part is true. But from the sun or any other solar perspective it does rotate.
CommunCreator
You know what I mean. I wasn’t wrong about the earth staying in one position.
On a completely unrelated note, I recently picked up Obscured By Clouds, a fascinating album - a transitional work between Pink Floyd’s earlier albums and DSotM
thatwoodguy
Also the side locked to us is the heavier one. All the big basins you see there are mass concentrations, mascons.
CommunCreator
Yep. The earth-ward side is in fact the darker side.
NJCabinetGuy
.... a $11 billion dollar photo ....
TinnyOctopus
https://c.ndtvimg.com/2025-05/rru4hupo_napalm-girl_625x300_16_May_25.jpg
Perhaps you prefer this image? Adjusted for inflation, it only cost a cool $1T.
https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/673b098/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5997x4000+0+0/resize/1360x907!/format/webp/quality/90/
TinnyOctopus
That second one has "only" cost about a couple hundred billion... so far. My point, if you're willing to listen, is that the US can absolutely afford NASA and the Artemis project, and has been able to for decades.
gablestout
Honestly, fuck off with that.
NASA directly supports 300,000 jobs, represented in all 50 states. For the Moon to Mars campaign, over 96,000 jobs. For every NASA job, another 16 are supported by it. For every $1M of labor income earned by NASA employees, $6.8M will circulate through the economy.
How obtuse can you be to think that NASA just launched a rocket full of cash into outer space, and that that money doesn't come back into the economy?
theskepticinme
Don’t worry, they took many more photos. About 10,000 just on the flyby. Not to mention the constant livestream. Also there was a new spaceship built and new rocket technology. Communication methods tested, record for a humans farthest distance from earth. New plans and procedures for space travel implemented and tested. And a whole lot more testing so the next mission can be successful.
NepLeet
"There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun."
Jaqdakloun
You must be fun at parties
SergeyPrkl
Well, Quoting Pink Floyd tend to be a blast!
DahPanda72
Yes, that’s how light works. Whatever doesn’t have light is dark. The dark side of the moon is the one without light… by this logic earth is always dark but it only gets light because of the sun.
DustInComp
The sun is also dark, except for the sunlight.
M4UsedRollout
"I was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a bruising.”
iMcFly
thunderknight64
This is a quote from Roger Waters, lead singer of Pink Floyd. It's the last line of Eclipse and, thus, the last line of the Dark Side Of The Moon album.
NepLeet
TIL it (and other phrases) came from the studios' Irish doorman, Gerry O'Driscoll. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon
pm1001
Ain't no dark side of the moon, far side
hogeyegrex
The side facing us is actually darker than the side facing away, in terms of albedo. So we’ve been looking at the dark side all along.
Magpiebones
I always thought it was metaphorical. Like Dark Africa used to refer to the unmapped areas of it.
NunyaBizness
The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Capitol Records in the US and on 16 March 1973 by Harvest Records in the UK.
pm1001
Yup. I bought it the day it came out
ThisNameUnavailable
Such a masterpiece. Literally a Time-less classic.
megodk
Also a Swiss, German, Danish ensemble making symphonic metal