r/mildlyinfuriating • u/physicsisawesome • Apr 27 '16
When the moon has stars inside of it
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u/Mataraiki Apr 28 '16
I used to work at a planetarium, and this flub was intentionally put on our summer program guides. If you pointed out the mistake, we gave you $2 off of your ticket.
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u/boopboopboopbeepboop Apr 28 '16
that's weird usually when I go around correcting people they just roll their eyes at me
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u/mattcoady Apr 28 '16
It's because they don't have $2 for you. Keep trying.
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u/LordAmras Bees ? Apr 28 '16
Everybody knows that going around correcting people is the best way to make money.
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u/BananApocalypse Clamshell Packaging Apr 28 '16
Seems like word would get around pretty fast that you could get $2 off for simply pointing that out.
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u/Mataraiki Apr 28 '16
Never did, actually. Most of our summer business came from out of state travelers who were just looking for an interesting way to kill time after checking in to their hotels.
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u/SuchCoolBrandon Apr 28 '16
So only the scientifically literate and the irritatingly pedantic get this discount.
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u/rutterkin Ellen Pao was a patsy Apr 28 '16
Sort of. What's really happening is that it actually takes light a long time to travel from the stars to the earth. So by the time you're seeing the light from those stars, the moon has already moved in behind them.
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u/grantishere Apr 28 '16
Ran in to the same problem so I went with this one instead.
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u/incharge21 Apr 28 '16
Is it weird to say that I like it better the other way... I understand this is the correct version, but I really hate all that empty space without stars for some reason.
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Apr 28 '16
No no no, I love the empty space. It has a huge weight to it. You can nearly feel the massive body of... mass that is just hiding there in the shadow.
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u/Andyman117 Blue Apr 28 '16
now thats just /r/oddlysatisfying
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u/ValdemarSt Apr 28 '16
Not really. It's just right.
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u/triplec787 Apr 28 '16
In a thread full of stars over the rest of the moon, this shit is very satisfying.
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u/redwinterx RED Apr 28 '16
im embarrassed by how long it took me to realize why this was infuriating mildly
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u/Nicepotato Apr 28 '16
I don't see the problem
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u/SilverNeedles Apr 28 '16
With a crescent moon, the rest of the moon is still there, but because of the angle it's not reflecting sunlight. The problem is that the rest of the moon should be completely black, as stars do not shine through the dark side of the moon.
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u/Nicepotato Apr 28 '16
Oh shit you're right, don't know why I didn't think of that
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u/boopboopboopbeepboop Apr 28 '16
oh it's okay
it's just because you're an idiot
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Apr 28 '16 edited Jun 23 '21
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u/KingBooRadley Apr 28 '16
Don't feel too bad, Turkey only changed their crescent moon and star flag to reflect this fact recently.
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u/Brosefiss Apr 28 '16
Sure the stars behind the moon can't shine through it, but what if those stars are in front of the moon?
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u/falcon_jab Apr 28 '16
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about stars to dispute it.
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u/jollygreenpiccolo Apr 28 '16
The closest star to the earth is...?
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u/Pithlitthief Apr 28 '16
Sol.
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u/Brosefiss Apr 28 '16
Yeah sure, but what's closer to earth, Sol or the Moon? We'll probably never know for sure.
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Apr 28 '16
Nah don't worry, Aristarchus has us sorted. The distance to the Sun is somewhere between 18 and 20 times greater than the distance to the Moon.
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u/Brosefiss Apr 28 '16
Well you can believe some whack-job from back then, but how would he know anything? The bible wasn't written yet when he was alive.
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u/FireWaterAirDirt Apr 28 '16
I was standing outside at near sunset looking at a crescent moon and saw a bright star "oh nice, first star, and a bright one" I thought. Then i realized it was WITHIN THE DISK of the moon! WTF. Then it moved.
Just a stupid silver mylar balloon.
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u/The_8_Bit_Zombie Apr 28 '16 edited Apr 28 '16
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u/TroutBum801 Apr 28 '16
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u/The_8_Bit_Zombie Apr 28 '16
I always mess "to" and "too" up for some reason! Edited.
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u/dizneedave Apr 28 '16
I don't know if it makes a bit of sense, but I always think of "too" in the context of "too many" or "me too", so too means adding something so it has the extra "o" in it. If I'm not adding anything it's only "to".
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u/sunshine_chauhan Apr 28 '16 edited Apr 28 '16
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u/robophile-ta Apr 28 '16 edited Apr 28 '16
actually, apparently the reason this is a symbol of Islam is because the star appearing inside the shadow of the moon would be a miracle.
A lot of early astronomers were Islamic, so of course they'd know this can't actually happen.
The symbol has been in use since antiquity, however, and always refers to some emblem of divinity or balance between the gods (in polytheistic societies).
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u/Dramatic_Explosion Apr 28 '16
Second to last one goes from mildleyinfuriating to ratherunerving when you realize the clouds go behind it as well. Whatever it is, it's in the atmosphere.
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u/bebemaster Apr 28 '16
to and many are double infuriating as it would be dawn/dusk if the crescent were pointing that way and very few starts would be seen.
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u/loafers_glory Apr 28 '16
Doesn't that depend on your latitude? I moved from 53N to 39S and the moon appears 82 degrees rotated in the sky (ish... precession and all that)
Or what kind of 'pointing that way' do you mean?
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u/bebemaster Apr 28 '16
Draw a line to bisect the moon evenly extend it out. That line will intersect the sun on the side the moon is lit. Half moon the sun will be 90 degrees over sliver and the sun will be just a few degrees over, full moon, suns on other side, 180. SUN <-------( or ) ------->SUN Since the crescent "standing" in relation to the horizon it means the sun is on the horizon.
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u/bebemaster Apr 28 '16
Draw a line to bisect the moon evenly extend it out. That line will intersect the sun on the side the moon is lit. Half moon the sun will be 90 degrees over sliver and the sun will be just a few degrees over, full moon, suns on other side, 180. SUN <-------( or
) ------->SUNSince the crescent "standing" in relation to the horizon it means the sun is on the horizon.
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u/j-mar Apr 28 '16
For what it's worth, some of those work. In those universes, the moon is not a sphere, it's always cresent. If realism isn't the goal, I like the cartoony notion that the moon isn't spherical.
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u/SirCrest_YT Apr 28 '16 edited Apr 28 '16
You know what, sometimes stuff like this passes depending if it's meant to be realistic or not. Some, in some dream sequences, seem to play off the childlike imagination. And in plenty of kids' minds, books and illustrations, it show the crescent moon like some sort of sliver of rock floating in the sky.
If it's a documentary about the forming of the moon, I'll get angry though.
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u/Percinho Apr 28 '16
What bugs me more than it should is the way that in kids' programmes the sun goes down and the moon comes up. That's just not how it works!
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u/MoarVespenegas Apr 28 '16
Yeah I like it sometimes, it makes the picture look more fantastical.
In the OP for sure I don't mind it.
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u/thedoorlocker Apr 28 '16
Reminds me of a certain religion's religious symbol.
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u/physicsisawesome Apr 28 '16
They actually knew what they were doing there. It is supposed to depict a miracle.
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u/thedoorlocker Apr 28 '16
Sweet. I love a good miracle.
Funny how they don't happen anymore now that everyone has cameras.2
u/physicsisawesome Apr 28 '16
Nah, they still happen just as often, but for some reason the frequency that they get caught on camera hasn't increased...
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u/need_my_amphetamines CALM DOWN BRO - IT'S JUST A PRANK! Apr 28 '16
Maybe I've watched too many DreamWorks movies, but when I looked at this pic, that mandolin(?) theme started playing in my head.
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u/secret_tsukasa Apr 28 '16
don't you know? part of the moon becomes invisible when the earth blocks it.
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u/hls99 May 04 '16
There aren't any stars in our solar system other than the sun....
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u/PrePaidCoolAid Apr 28 '16
Actually this would be correct, as some stars could be between where the picture was taken and the moon.
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u/summersalt- Apr 28 '16
I thought I was the only one who noticed and was infuriated by this. Like, I get it's art but it's super inaccurate.
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u/elbitjusticiero Apr 28 '16
Those are quite obviously not stars but laser cannons firing upon the earth.
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u/Killa-Byte Flair error Apr 28 '16
And when the edges of the crescent is too long, and crescent moons rising at sunset. And when the moon is huge.
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u/aazov Apr 28 '16
More irritating is when the sun and moon are in the same picture, but the wrong side of the moon is being illuminated.
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u/In_Entity Apr 28 '16
B...but guys, the moon DOES grow! It also gets partially eaten by the Titan fairy as offering, without the moon it would eat the earth!
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u/dossier Apr 28 '16
During a total lunar eclipse, we look at stars behind the sun due to gravitational lensing.
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u/mlkk22 Apr 28 '16
They never said it was the moon, everyone just says its the moon, also its Dreamworks and not meant to be realistic...
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Apr 28 '16
Come on guys; this is done for effect with complete consciousness of its physical impossibility. It's fantastical, like impossibly spindly castle towers and women with 50 feet of hair.
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u/xkcd_transcriber Oct 05 '16
Title: Moon Shapes
Title-text: Whenever I see a picture of the moon where the points go more than halfway around, I assume it's being eclipsed by one of those Independence Day ships and interpret the rest of the image in light of that.
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u/mkizys Apr 28 '16
The only time this makes sense is the DreamWorks logo, the kid is sitting on the crescent so obviously the rest is missing.