Quite like the moon. Love it when you can see it in the daytime. Feels a bit cheeky. Naughty moon!
Oh and blah blah they accidentally invent useful stuff when theyâre trying to get to the moon so donât worry about the cost you guys
Slag off the moon, I dare you. See what happens. Youâd be nothing without her. NOTHING
People say this a lot as if itâs a good argument for funding space programmes but isnât this argument âitâs an incredibly inefficient R&D lab for consumer productsâ?
In the old days when we were allowed to go places I used to love seeing a big bright full moon when smashed. I would have conversations with it, sing to it, that kinda game.
The Moon might be outmuscled by those Galilean fellows, Titan and Triton, but (apart from Charon*) itâs by far the biggest moon relative to the size of the planet it orbits. The moon is a GBOL, and is awesome enough without BBC News and the Guardian trying to get excited about another full moon thatâs pretty much the same as the last one.
*Charon gets this on a technicality 'cos Pluto ainât a planet nowadays. Charon is awesome too
Donât listen
the silly thing about all the constant full moon excitement is thatâs when the moon is at its dullest. Direct sunlight = no shadows, no relief, no contrast. See when youâve got binoculars or a telescope, and youâre at first quarter or crescent phase and the mountains & craters on the terminator are casting giant shadows across the moonâs surface - thatâs your moon money shot. Earthshine rocks too, and you donât get that with a measly full moon
Itâs hard to know what the application of some stuff will be though. There are loads of industries where we take things for granted that are the result of someone trying to do something else. Like Marmite, for example.
Space travel isnât worthless, is really all Iâm saying and itâs wrong to assume that it only serves the obvious purpose of putting people or things into space. The ISS is used to do lots of research, a lot of what they find has actual use.
No she isnât!!! Sheâs perfect. Stop this immediately.
Im not going to read this thread but just know that if youâre anti-moon, c***, I will fucking end you one day
Never! A half or crescent moon is worth two dozen full moons. Plus she doesnât block the stars out so badly and shares the sky with her twinkly buddies. And donât get me started on Pluto. Plutoâs awesome, but if ever there was a lump of rock & ice that was in the right place at the right time, Plutoâs it. Promoted wayyyyyy above its station far too early.
Marmite is from fucking space!?!?!?!?
The moonâs a gbol but like fuck should we spend gazillions of quids chucking tins up on it anymore
I like the idea of it more than the actual physical object thing
feel bad for the moon in that itâs stuck (gravity wise) to the most try hard, malcolm planet in the galaxy.
Why are they waiting until Monday? What are they going to announce?
Probably something boring like microbes or the existence of a small puddle that dried up 1.2 billion years ago or something