Do they think all rocks glow?
I mean, technically rocks do glow.
Technically everything glows.
Surprisingly, this even applies to black holes (i.e. Hawking radiation).
Now make the nornal distribution meme for it
If I remember, I can do it Monday afternoon. I unfortunately work 14 hours tomorrow and I can’t risk staying up.
This was my first thought. Somebody tell this guy that not only is his moon model there glowing, but he is too!
For bonus fun, tell him that he’s radioactive.
It would probably be fun to have some instruments on hand to prove it to him as well.
The reflection (scattering) of light can be seen on the picture they choose to make their point. Sure, the comment is correct that anything you can see scatters light otherwise you would not see it, but in the picture it is particular obvious where the light source is from the reflection on the rock.
I wonder how would the percentage of the people believing it change depending on the Moon’s albedo
I wonder if they think “reflection” only means the kind of reflection you see in a mirror.
specular, rather than diffuse, for reference
when i do it is called spectacular
It’s also a pretty dumb rock to use as an example. If the moon were that color it would be way brighter than it is currently. And with a rock as shiny as that you would clearly see a reflection of the sun as well.
In real life the moon is about as bright as dark asphalt and because of all the dust it is very dull as well. So a matt black paint would probably be closer to what the moon looks like. Still bright as hell compared to the nothingness that surrounds it. Our eyes are also very good at low light conditions, once we get used to the dark a little bit of light goes a long way. So we can even pick out shadows in the moonlight on earth. A brighter moon would be annoying I think, imagine having some nights that look like early evening on a sunny day. But if we evolved with it we would be used to it I guess.
Just like with flat earth the glowing moon theory fails to explain the phases of the moon or things like eclipses. And why the glow doesn’t follow black body radiation, but instead perfectly follows the tell tale signs of reflected sunlight, Fraunhofer lines and all. And where the energy to generate that light would come from, making something glow as bright as the moon takes a lot of power. And why that power source selectively lights some parts some of the time. And where does the sunlight that hits the moon ends up, if it’s not reflected.
I would think it’s a troll, but these days you’d never know. Even if a troll for example claims vaccines cause autism for the grift, idiots still believe it.
radioactive cheese
Mirrors
Breathing is fake. You really don’t have to breath. Don’t accept this group delusion. Quit breathing. You can do it just keep trying to quit.
Or better yet, get someone to help you quit.
They should just be rugged individuals and use a bag, it helps get over the ingrained Marxist socialist brainwashing that will get them fake breathing as soon as they pass out from the overwhelming yearning to be free.
The bag on their head shows they must break the yoke of communism and be independent
Jesus people are dumb.
I have a coworker who insists that global warming is a hoax because plants give off oxygen, not carbon dioxide. Can’t even get a foothold in that kind of stupid.
First time I hear them being referred to as “Jesus people”
Well I guess there was an implied comma but this works too I guess. 🤣
NO! You can see things because light hits it, not becuz it reflects it STOOPIT ^\s
I used to canoe on this lake in Wales, someone had attached a buoy to a gate and chucked it in, presumably as a marker…from where our camp was, the buoy looked shiny and metallic. It was actually white and partly covered in grime. Distance does weird shit.
Everybody wants a rock…
I mean, what else are you gonna wind a piece of string around?
Is this person suggesting it’s a star with well-defined edges?
Cold fusion achieved!
IS THAT A TWISTED SISTER DELTA PLEDGE PIN?!!
ON YOUR UNIFORM?!!I wanna ROCK
(insert banjo twang here)
ROCK !!!
Duh duh duh
Duh dah dah
It’s particularly choice that the reader-added context uses simple.Wikipedia.org
Wait, as far as I understand, this is a wikipedia page for severely Learning disabled people? Great, since I know a lot of idiots.
It’s for children, people with learning difficulties, and/or people still learning English. https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_write_Simple_English_pages
It’s condensed content with simpler terms and plain English, which is helpful for those who aren’t native speakers, like Gamba said.
Simple wiki also comes in handy in topics like biology, which can have very specialized vocabulary.But in this context, the people who unironically believe in things like the moon not being a reflector can’t be reasoned with. They won’t change their mind no matter how simple English you explain the fact.
The only time something doesn’t reflect light is if it’s painted in that special black that’s even darker than vanta black, because that’s what makes it so black; it absorbs all light instead of reflecting any.
Black holes don’t reflect any light at all as far as I know. They do emit some light via hawking radiation, but that’s not really reflecting.
A coating, which is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes. Absorbs 99.995% of visible light. Vanta: A mere 99.96%.
And even that reflects a teeny tiny bit of light.
this one could go troll or dumbass, hard to tell
It’s fucking impossible to know nowadays, it has even gone into “this is so crazy that it can’t be a troll” territory. I’m at a loss of words almost daily from the level of idiocy and ignorance that infects every damn comment section everywhere. The bar for most stupid imaginable is racing lower and lower every damn second, and it’s already WAY beyond what should be possible.
Probably started as a troll and picked up by dumbasses. Like the Flat Earth Society.
I wonder if the Finland conspiracy has any genuine believers yet…
I thought it was Belgium?
I once won the Rory Award for The Most Gratuitous Use of that word in a Serious Screenplay, you know… Then someone stole it, of course…
Pretty sure it was Idaho
But then where do the waffles come from? And the chocolates? And diamonds?
All those things come from Bielefeld !
You have been lied to your whole life !
Bielefeld? The football club from Armenia? 😉
Ok, you convinced me. Where do I sign up?
Uhhh…
That’s a great great question…
“Where is Bielefeld ?”
We know that it exists. But where ?
Where does black metal come from?
Hate to be this guy, but it’s Norway.
Ahchchcually USA has by far the most metal bands, but yeah Finland leads the per capita list by far.
Finland?
Mostly Norway, Sweden, and (to a lesser extent) Denmark.
Also from a profound sense of alienation combined with a tendency towards macabre flamboyancy and just subjective stylistic preferences of expression, I guess 🤷
This kinda makes me feel old.
The version I heard I thought it was New Zealand… 😝
New Zealand doesn’t exist. Show me New Zealand on a map
(this joke works because New Zealand is left off of a stupid number of maps)
Wait, it’s not Iceland?
I’ve also heard it’s Australia
Careful, that word’s really offensive in most parts of the galaxy.
Except in serious screenplays, of course.
That sounds like something a Finn would say.
So Finns do exist, other than Belgian people
I went there for a visit, and they just toured me the east side of Tallinn as if I was an idiot
What conspiracy?
That Finland does not exist. It started on reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/finlandConspiracy/comments/52f5ae/the_finland_conspiracy_and_all_you_need_to_know/
That what does not exist? I have no idea what you’re talking about.
what a lame copy of the Bielefeld-Conspiracy
If you can see it, it’s reflecting light
I think the nutcake / troll was trying to convey that the rock is emitting light. Which is no less stone bonkers and a load of old cobblers, but here we are.
Well I caught that
But I can see light. Is light reflecting light? What else am I being lied to about?
