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(Message started by: alien2 on Mar 19^th, 2017, 10:50pm)

Title: PERIGEE
Post by alien2 on Mar 19^th, 2017, 10:50pm

Last year I saw the most beautiful blazing moon. Half the night I could not see the moon because of dark clouds. When was the moon shining, 1st half of the night, or the 2nd?

Title: Re: PERIGEE
Post by towr on Mar 20^th, 2017, 12:20am

[hide]Second, cause surely you wouldn't stay up to wait how long the sky would stay dark after already seeing the moon.[/hide]

Title: Re: PERIGEE
Post by dudiobugtron on Mar 20^th, 2017, 1:01am

[hide]Both halves! The moon is still shining even if it is covered with clouds.[/hide]

Title: Re: PERIGEE
Post by alien2 on Mar 20^th, 2017, 1:48am

Need I say that dudiobugtron wins again? Perhaps I ought to apply silentium est aurem and remain silent whenever he guesses because it is self-evident that his guess is right.

Title: Re: PERIGEE
Post by towr on Mar 20^th, 2017, 1:58pm

on 03/20/17 at 01:01:38, dudiobugtron wrote:

[hide]Both halves! The moon is still shining even if it is covered with clouds.[/hide]

[hide]It doesn't shine at all, actually, it merely reflects.[/hide] :P

Title: Re: PERIGEE
Post by alien2 on Mar 21^st, 2017, 7:50am

on 03/20/17 at 13:58:06, towr wrote:

[hide]It doesn't shine at all, actually, it merely reflects.[/hide] :P

I'd say Oprah's mirror is scared of her. I reckon not even the moon wants to be close to her during perigee.

Title: Re: PERIGEE
Post by Grimbal on Apr 10^th, 2017, 5:10am

Assuming by 'moon' you mean a backside, and the dark clouds are actually a product of the said moon, then I'd say the 1st half of the night was clear, before it happened.

Title: Re: PERIGEE
Post by rloginunix on Apr 12^th, 2017, 6:53am

Do not mean to be a party pooper but it looks like quantum mechanics backs towr's answer: initially the wave function of the Moon is in the superposition of all possible states, "shining" and "not shining", simultaneously. The only way to collapse that wave function into a determinate state is to take a look-see. Hence ...

Title: Re: PERIGEE
Post by alien2 on Apr 12^th, 2017, 7:56am

...and to deepen quantum mechanics likewise the greatest illusion there is, life, I mean, in that, we think that we are alive, but, who ever said, that our thoughts are alive in the first place? They are just a complex extension of our body, like the beard, and since the beard grows after we die, I, alien2, although I know nothing about quantum mechanics, have concluded, that we, aliens and humans, are, in fact, holograms and Nazgûl. Thank You.

Title: Re: PERIGEE
Post by dudiobugtron on Apr 12^th, 2017, 11:40am

on 04/12/17 at 06:53:11, rloginunix wrote:

The foretold joke did not disappoint :)

Title: Re: PERIGEE
Post by Lupin on Apr 12^th, 2017, 11:24pm

My love when I gaze on thy beautiful face
Careering along yet always in place
the thought has often come into my mind
If I ever shall see thy glorious behind.

Title: Re: PERIGEE
Post by alien2 on Apr 13^th, 2017, 12:27am

You talkin' to me?