ask me anything

[billcapp]

not all sharks have to move to breathe..i.e. nurse sharks

[zhead240]

is there really a dark side of the moon? wouldn't it be daylite on the dark side during a new moon?

[Bambikiller240]

..........a baby rabbit is a babbit

Vicky

In some neighborhoods a baby rabbit is.......................DINNER! Right Bill?

[Bambikiller240]

is there really a dark side of the moon? wouldn't it be daylite on the dark side during a new moon?

No, however there is a "far side of the moon", but you'll never see it from earth. And YES it would be light on the far side of the moon when we experience a "new moon".

From Earth, you can only see one side of the Moon. This side is termed the near side of the Moon. Is it thought that long ago when the Moon was still in formation, the Earth's gravity slowed the Moon's spin. The Moon now rotates once as it orbits the Earth, allowing for the same side to always face the Earth so that the far side remains a mystery to any Earth-bound observer.

Many people speculated that there were strange mysteries on the far side of the Moon (black monoliths maybe?). In 1959, Russia's spacecraft Luna 3 left the Earth and headed to the Moon. It returned the first picture of the far side. Then in 1968 on Christmas eve, three men, Borman, Lovell, and Anders saw the far side of the moon with their own eyes as their Apollo 8 spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon.

Anders was a bit disappointed with what he saw that Christmas eve. His description of the far side of the Moon was that it was the color of dirty beach sand and that the landscape was of unrelenting sameness - crater upon crater, hill upon battered hill.

PS "Dark Side of the Moon" is a classic Pink Floyd album.

[Zthing]

If I were running down a grassy hill at full speed, stepped into a hole and snapped my leg off at the knee, would the ringing in my ears subside long enough for me to understand what the man in my head is saying?

[First Gen Z]

It's my guess that the man was telling you to slow down and you were having too much fun running out of control to listen.

[1 Bravo 6]

STILLwaiting for an answer to Stacey's question.

C'Mon Dave !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rick.

[Gee]

Why when you watch cars accelerate away from a standing start do their wheels appear to rotate in one direction and then appear to rotate the other way as the car gets quicker?

[sblake01]

PS "Dark Side of the Moon" is a classic Pink Floyd album.

At the end of the song, Roger Waters says "There is no dark side of the moon. As a matter of fact, it's all dark."

[hls30.com]

Gee,

if that is only on video or film,and has to do with shutter speed, or if it is in person it has to do with the drug, speed!

Will

[MikeW]

Gee,

if that is only on video or film,and has to do with shutter speed

It can also happen at night because artificial lighting is based on 60Hz AC current. Lights actually flicker on and off 60 times a second which is too fast for you to notice because of persistence of vision. However, when something like a wheel is spinning at speed this flicker produces a strobe effect.

[chickenwafer]

is there really a dark side of the moon? wouldn't it be daylite on the dark side during a new moon?

It's called the darkside because it never faces us, because we scare it too much.