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Argh, news articles⌠Itâs the far side of the moon, for crying out loud. Itâs no darker than the near sideâŚ
Technically true
Both sides of the Moon experience two weeks of sunlight followed by two weeks of night; the far side is sometimes called the " dark side of the Moon ," meaning unseen rather than lacking light.
There is also a signal loss experienced as you reach the far side so communications also go dark
Blame it on Pink Floyd
Just donât lose sight of the bigger picture
It is a common synonym, the problem is that in my experience a lot of people take it literally. I.e. the term does not come from people that think the far side is dark, but it makes a lot of people think that.
I do, actually!
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Mysterious Space Radio Signals Detected
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Soooo⌠can she roll herself into a sphere and survive in a vacuum?
Hmmm⌠Really torn here. On the one hand, itâs completely bonkers and useless. On the other, that thing is basically a power satellite prototype. If you can make that work, all you need is to get it more focused and build a solar-thermal ground receiver. It would not be unthinkable to bootstrap power satellite development onto its heels.
Of course, such power satellites are also excellent weapons of mass harassment⌠Everything has a drawback, I guess.
I imagine an âaccidentalâ collision with some handy space junk wouldnât be too hard to arrange. Where is Elon Muskâs car when we need it?
Hopefully this will not be one of those âWe thought of doing something stupid and then did it anywayâ moments. There are too many billboards on the ground I really done care to have them blocking the sky too.
That sounds as if the experiment went according to plan, though. They tested if the seedlings would sprout under the radiation conditions with the resources provided. They full-well knew that they werenât going to last the night without heating, and it was also clear that there would be no power during the night.
Agreed. I am sure there was not enough room for the plant to mature. Full growth was never the plan. Too bad the other seeds did not sprout.