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alien2
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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?
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Re: PERIGEE
« Reply #1 on: Mar 20th, 2017, 12:20am » |
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Second, cause surely you wouldn't stay up to wait how long the sky would stay dark after already seeing the moon.
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Re: PERIGEE
« Reply #2 on: Mar 20th, 2017, 1:01am » |
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Both halves! The moon is still shining even if it is covered with clouds.
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Re: PERIGEE
« Reply #3 on: Mar 20th, 2017, 1:48am » |
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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.
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Re: PERIGEE
« Reply #4 on: Mar 20th, 2017, 1:58pm » |
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on Mar 20th, 2017, 1:01am, dudiobugtron wrote:| Both halves! The moon is still shining even if it is covered with clouds. |
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It doesn't shine at all, actually, it merely reflects. 
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Re: PERIGEE
« Reply #5 on: Mar 21st, 2017, 7:50am » |
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on Mar 20th, 2017, 1:58pm, towr wrote:
It doesn't shine at all, actually, it merely reflects. |
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I'd say Oprah's mirror is scared of her. I reckon not even the moon wants to be close to her during perigee.
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Re: PERIGEE
« Reply #6 on: Apr 10th, 2017, 5:10am » |
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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.
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Re: PERIGEE
« Reply #7 on: Apr 12th, 2017, 6:53am » |
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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 ...
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Re: PERIGEE
« Reply #8 on: Apr 12th, 2017, 7:56am » |
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...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 Nazgūl. Thank You.
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Re: PERIGEE
« Reply #9 on: Apr 12th, 2017, 11:40am » |
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on Apr 12th, 2017, 6:53am, rloginunix wrote:| 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 ... |
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The foretold joke did not disappoint 
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Re: PERIGEE
« Reply #10 on: Apr 12th, 2017, 11:24pm » |
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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.
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Re: PERIGEE
« Reply #11 on: Apr 13th, 2017, 12:27am » |
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You talkin' to me?
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