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powwerbottom
Fuck, at least she's asking questions
hopeforhumanity
It's like are you not aware the earth does the same thing...
jalcantara88127001
Your brain cell count is too low for this ride
nimeton0
People are dumb. Clearly the moon is real. Why isn't it flat like the Earth, though? /s
TinyOctopus
The shadow of the earth is eclipsing Mindy's brain.
Mahcks
Nighttime?
shinyspaceslack
her brain. lol
yatasima
It’s easier to post stupid stuff online than to get some basic knowledge. The internet was better back when you still had to get over a small intellectual hurdle to use it.
kisselFL
Orionsdick
Wendsleydale?
Shewy92
gabbertoons
KoalaOnTheJuice
At least she's trying to explain it.
theskepticinme
I agree. She is curious. This is where learning happens and that’s a good thing
stonetemplefox05
I mean, I don't know the answer either, but I would never confidently argue about something I don't understand. Which I think is the real point here
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
so-called 'space'
justaguyinthebackrow
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1cmhkNzdxMWR3Yzhhc3BmMnlrNXM3a3dhbDFrdjBwcnF0NHh2Z3dqMiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/mlGCsBLl4luyQaOl8w/200w.webp
Evenmoreuselessname
77hnx994wv10
I guess the moon being tidally locked also isn’t taught anymore
vulturolf
By my old gods what she means by "space"?!? Im not really even shocked to find out if people dont even believe we live in one of many galaxies.
Nikilynn0125
I have a guy working for me who is a 56-yr old navy veteran. Told me he doesn't believe the first moon landing was real because no way they had the ability. So did the other countries who also went to "space" join in this big conspiracy? Special effects were so good back then, I'm sure everyone was fooled. I asked him if the earth was flat, but at least he said no to that. Ffs
quicksilver1
HolyFreakingToast
FLATMOON! it is just a sprite turned to the viewer! i knew it!
Pelican3
Time for the flashlight tennis ball demonstration.
NomadUniverse
The amount of batshit crazy morons that have exploded on social media over Artemis II is actually frightening and revolting. 99% of them Americans too.
Imjurbro
Here’s a CT twist for you all. We don’t even know if that post is real, AI, bait, etc., Here we are, thousands of people, across multiple platform talking about this. Clicking it - maybe going to the Fox story, etc. etc..
MurderousCoat
Real tweet and given she joined twitter back in 2011 it's unlikely she's a LLM unless she switched over to using one. In reality she's just a conspiracy theorist grifter, her bio is basically a bunch of signs pointing to it. "Independent Journalist, Hidden History Buff, Gnostic Christian, Libertarian, Gypsy Queen, and Host of “Conspiracy Truths."" Also has her cashapp and a link to her "News Network" that's basically conspiracy theory trash, girl's getting paid off this biz.
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
Yeah, exactly. Conspiracy bullshit for cash.
MaxWar
She fails to notice that this is not quite exactly the near side of the moon ( Visible from earth ). You can see a sliver of the hidden face. This invalidates her reasoning. If anything, this would prove that this picture was taken from space. The picture is dated April 3 on Nasa.gov. Full moon on earth was April 1st.
5v4297j9fj1
One fool can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer
CallMeMcGyver
It's the refractive index of the cheese the moon is made of... it creates an optical illusion that makes it look that way... especially after the cow jumped over it. Duh.
OffTheGrid99
I always buy high-index moon cheese to make it thinner. Costs twice as much but boy is it thin.
LizLittle
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1MTFtYzV3ZGdtbjV1bXhxbzIxYW9jcmZrZHJxZnJqMHl0YTExcG11MiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/SkmOdeRVdFZTi/200w.webp
jalcantara88127001
YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS BABY BELL!!!!
ReallyOG
Wait until she learns about the dark side of the cheese.
ImgursLibertarian
You don't see how? It's because that's why.
doomedtogrow
Because the camera flash lit up the dark parts. Use you’re brains Moran!
Khanamana324
What brains?
ImYourWifesBoyfriend
These people vote and have children btw. Let that sink in.
Margrave9000
Both only happens because we're letting them. And look what that brought us.
TyphoonMuscles
You're right. We should do eugenics about it.
Margrave9000
Something must be done. Will somebody think of the human rights?
Broken08
And enough of them voted that moron in office. There's that many of them.
quietwalker
The number of times I had to use that phrase, "I can explain it to but I can't understand it for " in my last company was just sky high.
0xDEC0DE
I recently had a minor success using AI that was quite literally farming out the understanding of a problem to the LLM, and eyeballing the correct result.
Ironic since LLMs don't actually understand anything, but it is a fascinating time to be alive; the machines can both explain it to you, AND understand it for you!
Millstone85
I confess that I didn't find the answer so obvious. But if I understand correctly now, this view of the Moon pushes the "rabbit" slightly to the right, with Mare Crisium disappearing behind the Moon's curve. So no, it is not quite the near side as we know it from Earth.
flukeysnail
A five second search would show her it's not the same angle we see from Earth. She is willfully spreading ignorance. It's a tragic irony that the information age has made it easier for people to remain uniformed.
eronth
I mean, her main issue seems to be assuming it's all the same angle, right?
zagibu
Her logic on why it has to be the same angle is very weird, though. A sphere only has two sides, an inside and an outside.
IHateApostrophes
Yeah I don't know why everyone's piling on her. Her reasoning isn't off. If you're seeing a different phase of the moon than earth sees, and it's from space, then you'd expect to be looking at the moon from a different angle so the features on its surface would look positionally different. Knowing fox news I wouldn't be surprised if they just pasted whatever photo of the moon they found online and called it a day.
Blackfinity
One of the Artemis astronauts, Christina Koch, said "That is the dark side. That is something we have never seen before." A fucking astronaut, on a ship heading there right now, using this terminology. smh. We aren't even educating the sciengineers going there so it's not surprising individuals like this don't get things...
LinkHouseMan
But she's right. The "dark side" refers to the part of the moon that never faces the earth due to tidal locking. It doesn't mean it never gets sunlight and it is the correct terminology. Source: I can use Google and have a pretty good reading compression.
Blackfinity
It's a colloquialism, not "correct terminology."
QueenOfTheFey
I fear you misunderstood her quote. The quote has nothing to do with this picture. It has to do with them literally getting their first glimpses of what we see as the dark side, but with sunlight lighting it up from their angle.
Just because shes a woman doesnt mean she doesnt know what shes talking about.
Blackfinity
It has nothing to do with her being a woman and everything to do with her being an engineer and scientist and using sloppy terminology. What do you mean "what we see as the dark side"? The moon is tidally locked and so we only ever see one hemisphere from earth. The other hemisphere isn't "dark" per se; it is fully lit during a "new" moon. We just don't see it because it never rotates into view.
QueenOfTheFey
You not understanding her doesnt make her wrong or her terminology sloppy.
Especially since you literally just described what she did. A side of the moon WE see as dark. That we refer to as the dark side of the moon. Because we never see it. Which now that they're facing the moon at a different angle, they are seeing. Because they have moved into view.
Every female scientist deals with this "OH, let me, a layman explain why you a woman, is wrong despite being an expert" but they arent wrong.
Blackfinity
This is a great demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger Effect: "...we see as dark ... because we never see it..." This is some epic Trumpian word-salad. Something is "dark" when it is not illuminated. We cannot see something when it is "dark" OR not in our line of sight. At new-moon the far side of the moon is illuminated but we do not see it; is it still the "dark side of the moon"? And, again, not sure why you think I'm attacking her because she's female. It has nothing to do with the matter.
QueenOfTheFey
Youre claiming the FUCKING ASTRONAUT is experiencing Dunning Kruger?!
Stop mansplaining for 10 seconds & you'll realize youre just repeating what is already being said. We all know what you're saying, you're not special, we know that shit. She's smarter than you AND an expert. She knows.
AND YES, even though the dark side of the moon may be illuminated its still called the dark fucking side of the moon.
QueenOfTheFey
And if you cant figure out why what you're doing is mansplaining and why gender DOES have something to do with it, then you have a lot more to unpack than your god complex.
Oblok
No one has actually explained it in the comments, so here: "Mindy -- the picture is four days old."
MaxWar
You can check on the Nasa site, the photo was taken April 3. Where she is wrong is that it is not quite exactly the near side of the moon (visible from earth ). You can see a sliver of the hidden side, which if anything would prove this is taken from space.
QueenOfTheFey
I dont know how old the picture is,but to my understanding we only see part of the moon during the lunar cycle is cuz we're in the way. But if you're viewing the moon from a different angle,you're not going to get the shadow, add the fact that theres no atmosphere to scatter the light and you'll have no real shadows at all.
Per Wiseman“The Earth is almost in full eclipse.The moon is almost in full daylight,and the only way you could get that view is to be halfway between the two entities”
Oblok
Mindy's complaint is the same face is visible, but differently lit. If some moon rock is shaded, changing the viewpoint won't light it up.
QueenOfTheFey
Here is a picture from Artemis and Earth at the same time. We see the earth one and they see the Artemis one. They dont see the shading of individual moon rocks, because they do not have an atmosphere scattering the light, and they're closer so the moon is brighter. They dont see the dark side part, because they are being backlit by the sun at a different angle. The darkside isnt facing them, even if its facing us at our angle. As they go around, it'll change.
QueenOfTheFey
Theyll have a point where they get a new moon and we'll still be sitting with a waning gibbous!
SnailsAgainstTungstenSpheres
An eclipse is a separate thing from the lunar cycle. The lunar cycle is literally just where the sun is hitting the moon. We're not having constant eclipses... Man we're fuckin toast aren't we
QueenOfTheFey
Here is a picture of the lunar cycle. The sun is always hitting the full half of the moon, our angle is what makes the lunar cycle.
I never said we were constantly having eclipses, nor did Wiseman, you are misunderstanding both of us.
QueenOfTheFey
We get lunar eclipses because the moon goes between the sun and the earth and the earths shadow blocks light from getting to the moon. And we get solar eclipses because the moon gets between the sun and the earth and blocks light getting to us.
Right now, they're getting a EARTH eclipse because the earth is between THEM and the sun. But they can still see the whole moon bc they arent facing the dark side part at all from their angle.
Thats what Wiseman is explaining in his quote. Makes sense?
QueenOfTheFey
Also here is a photo from Earth and a photo from Artemis taken at the exact same time.
cousteau
You're describing a lunar eclipse, not the regular moon phases. Only one half of the moon is lit by sunshine at a time; the other half is dark. During a full moon you're seeing the half that is illuminated, and during the new moon you're seeing the dark half because the sun is behind it. And the lunar ground is not reflective like a mirror; it scatters the light it reflects, so if a piece of ground looks dark from one angle it'll look dark from another angle.
QueenOfTheFey
I fear I must have not explained my point properly. I know only half of the moon is lit at a time, but that part is ALWAYS fully lit, its our angle that makes it hard to see. The Sun always illuminates that half of the Moon while the other half always remains dark, but how much we are able to see of that illuminated half changes as the Moon travels through its orbit because of OUR angle on it. They're not at the same angle so they dont.
cousteau
Ooh, yeah that sounds right. "The shadow" sounded like you meant Earth's shadow because we (Earth) were on the way. So yeah you can always get a full moon if you look at it from the right angle; it just involves some space travel sometimes.
QueenOfTheFey
Ah, no, I can see how it was interpreted that way, but that was not my intention.
Tbf this is not my field, so I'm not good at explaining the science in a way people understand.
lightfoot2
We know the Earth is hollow but this got me thinking: Is the moon hollow as well?
75townecoupe
Pelicidoon on the moon
CausticCake
It's not hollow, it's a lava cake. That's why Galactus wants to eat it
TheJuiceLoosener
If you're looking for hollow spaces, check Mindy's head
lightfoot2
Yeah, I'm not interested in exploring the "space" between Mindy's ears :-)
maybeamonster
the weird part is the hollow earth is in the hollow moon, but so too is the hollow moon in the hollow earth. well, weird if you're the three dimension descendant of a protective shell a bacteria colony learned to roll a into a tube to protect itself, grew some cilia to pump nutrients through, and eventually started wiggling until everything sort of got out of control. if you were properly fourth dimensional it would be pretty obvious.
Cranbananarama
Nah, it's full of imitation cheese spread. People think the whole moon is made of normal cheese but, nah, only the inside, and it's fake cheese. Grey exterior is a protective shell. It ever splits open, that mess is getting everywhere.
Firestar002
So the grey is actually the wax coating?
SomeGuyWhoSaysStuff
Yes, it is where the moon people make cheese which is why people think the moon is made of cheese, it's just where cheese comes from
lightfoot2
Oh oh oh, good point. So it's full of yummy queso.
malachilenomade
You'll need to watch the documentary Moonfall.
MechKelly
Honestly liked it better than I expected to.
sme2812
I know you're joking but... maybe
MechKelly
Watch the movie Moonfall to see what's really going on inside.
MediocreExtremist
yes. the moon is chocolate. like an easter egg
Isthe4thtimethecharm
That can't be accurate. The moon was made a long time ago. I am old enough to remember Easter candies being solid chocolate.
lightfoot2
In the 70's they were that thin chocolate with that really yummy gummy egg thing in the "basket". Ears and sometimes head were solid, we would gnaw on those.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Cream filled eggs exist. Your argument does not persuade me.
LenneSamunai
Thats why it has a bunny on the moon ya?
theduckening
dammit, so the cheaped out on the moon too? Damn shrinkflation, no wonder the moon is getting smaller every year for the last several millions of year.
lightfoot2
At least it is chocolate as opposed to "chocolatey". In the US those words mean a massive difference, but does that apply to the moon?
I need to find a lawyer
theduckening
I don't know but I'll definitely be keeping an eye for the branding change to "processed moon product"
TexMexHex
I dont know who to blame anymore. The US education system? Neglecful parents? Willfull ignorance? Bitch, you have a computer a bajillion times more powerful than what got us to the Moon the first time, in your fucking pocket. Get off tiktok, learn a bit.
robpaschal
I go with willful ignorance as a result of being punished for questioning the status quo.
DangerTrain
Some people just choose to be stupid by being painfully incurious and so sure they already know everything.
GerbilHereReportingLiveFromRichardGeresAss
Or: trolling. Social media rewards this kind of behavior.
DemSumBigAssRidges
Conservatives.
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
"Learn"... isn't that the problem in the first place?
It's an endless circle of ignorance.
hdddfhvinkjh64523
Remember how stupid the average person is. Then realise that half the population is even more stupid.
Drinkfist
Wild you didn't put lead poisoning into that list. It's my highest held theory on this stupidity epidemic.
fingobaggins
Thanks Obama
jbrightmans
You blame her.
PhilipJFryIII
Reagan
imeatingpizzaandfuckit
Nobody. People are stupid as shit. We’re no smarter than we had to be to get off the grasslands. The fact that we know stuff and can do some cool shit is a side effect of that. But there’s no pressure to know any more than what you need to know to get through your day. All that has happened is that the internet makes it really easy to find out just how fucking stupid people are.
MrsHowVeryDareYou
I mean, at least she’s asking? It wasn’t like full on “the Jews are hiding the moon from us to sell more headlights!!!!1!!” or some shit.
This is a breakdown in connecting the dots - she’s at least aware of the cycles of the moon and the angle of which we see it. She just didn’t remember the earth’s shadow part. There’s clear evidence of critical thinking, which we don’t always see enough of these days.
cousteau
Earth shadow on the moon is only a thing during lunar eclipses, and getting away from earth doesn't change how that surface looks. It can change the angle you see of it though.
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
Could even be narcissism. Something doesn't make sense? Must be a conspiracy.
stryhf
Before the internet/social media the village idiot was known only to the village. Now that same idiot can find global reach for their ideas, finding like-minded people, reinforcing their beliefs. The internet didn't create ignorance or stupidity, it only magnified and weaponized its importance.
GerbilHereReportingLiveFromRichardGeresAss
Except that it does create ignorance and stupidity on a mass scale. It's not like there is a fixed number of idiots.
tiptoeingthru
I highly suspect this is why...
13579rocket
Just for anyone wondered (or who has forgotten)… phases of the moon and how the moon revolves around the earth, etc is taught in junior high. I’ve worked with several science teachers, myself included, and students struggle with this. In our collective opinion, it’s because most kids just don’t care about this topic. They remember it just long enough to pass the unit but then it’s out of their heads soon after.
To learn about and REMEMBER something in science often requires continued interest…
13579rocket
…not a two-three week unit that is taught once in your early teenage life. If science was pushed as a more fundamental part of education… and many of the topics taught more than once, then adults would remember and understand.
MakeItBackAlright
Funny, most of the public science communicators I know got their start on TikTok.
DrKonrad
The problem is not access to information, cause everyone has access to everything with their phone. The problem is that these people don't know how to seek information from reliable sources (to them, TikTok, Truth Social or AI are sources as good as any), and when they read info they can't differentiate what is true from what is fake, everything has the same level of confidence. So yes, I blame the education system (and education defunding) for failing to teach critical thinking
freemab
I was so annoyed at the “learning how to learn” stuff in school. Now I understand why they taught us and appreciate those lessons.
DrKonrad
When you learn it in school, some aspects can seem "too trivial", and then you assume that it is common sense and that everyone knows that. Today's society demonstrates that this is far from true, "common sense" is actually not so common, and a lot of people really struggle with basic logic. School should definitely teach, not what to think, but *how to think* critically and logically.
suntea888
A deliberate erosion of trust in anyone outside the cult like ingroup perpetrating it. It's authoritarianism, the way a toxic partner might alienate you from friends and family so they can better control you. They gain people's trust and then cut them off the rest of society with incompatible bullshit beliefs.
ToSisPoS
In other words, I conspiracy is real. It’s just not the conspiracy they think.
ToSisPoS
Either I’m having a stroke or dictation stopped working again
PonyMadness
Blame social media for giving these morons a stage. Also blame the morons who keep reposting these morons.
Sticklebrickk
I told my mom I could explain how an engine works in 5 minutes. She said no. I'm inclined to willful ignorance.
hotaru251
public school system attacked and damage by right for decades...but also peoples ignorance & refusal to learn about the world.
ReverseSyzygy
One girl I dated asked where the moons came from each time there was a new moon.
cousteau
Wait till she learns many of them are just refurbished!
Elkarlo77
Hear me out. The Sun gets all the service for it's charriot, the moon on the other side.. not so blink blink by the government, has to use an old ride. So it breaks down once in a while and it has to have lot of service. /S
Illinifan88
The problem isn't really people not understanding this. It's people who don't understand it but feel the obligation to speak on it as if they understand.
Speaking while ignorant should shame people into the shadows, not amplify them.
Imjurbro
I suspect there have been a lot of people through a lot of human history who had no idea about a lot of things. We used to wonder if a million monkeys on a million typewriters would eventually produce Shakespeare, thanks to the internet we now know differently. Simpsons, 1993.
0xDEC0DE
"It was the best of times, it was the... BLURST of times?! Bah, stupid monkey!"
Imjurbro
Some classic Simpsons were really very good.
freemab
We need to encourage questions to help people understand, and until they start showing their ass, we don’t know if the questions are genuine or just trying to waste time. It can be a fine line.
I learn best by asking for clarification but this can really make people defensive at times. I’ve learned this and try to reassure them I am only trying to understand and not to prove them wrong.
PinkyTheUnicorn2
"Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
Basically, people aren't educated, don't know how to obtain factual information, and many (especially in America) are primed for "magical thinking" by things like religion, where everything must have some grandiose cause behind it, and if you can't figure out what it is, or if you think the factual explanation is boring, you can assign some "secret" grandiose cause, aka conspiracy theories.
Ebo352
I mean, the one about a group of people using racism to jail parts of the population and turn them into slave labor...that one I do believe.
TheVillageGrouch9000
I'm stuck in Амэрика. I am a critical thinker and proudly voted for Kamala Harris. Never voted GOP and know how the moon travels in space.
wadatahmydamie
Seanbaby calls people like that “untrickable.” They’re people who got tricked once, and decided they would never be tricked again. Which means they won’t allow themselves to be duped by reality, which also means that every secret explanation is the correct one.
thecollective01
Wow, Seanbaby, what a blast from the old-internet past. Used to love his page, the caption to his pic with Mr. T still lives in my head rent-free.
"I can say without ego that this is the greatest photograph ever taken."
wadatahmydamie
He’s got a podcast now. An Imgurian edits it, along with some of her other roles on there
The associated website is mostly comedy articles with no ads
thecollective01
Good to know he's still truckin', I'm definitely going to check out the podcast 👌
PinkyTheUnicorn2
Philosophy academics call it "ontologically skeptical", i.e. they are skeptical of any method of obtaining truth, so they only trust themselves, and therefore whatever sounds right to them is correct. This is why so many on the political right are throwing disinformation right and left, and using AI fake videos and recordings, so "nothing is true", because when nothing is true you just believe whatever you want, and 9/10 times that's whatever scares you or makes you angry.
Strayfrosty
H.P. Lovecraft made his career off of not understanding anything and being afraid of and hating everything and everyone as a result of the older version of this nonsense lol
wadatahmydamie
That’s the real Joe Rogan experience