Talk:2809: Moon
Happy birthday to me. This comic is a good birthday present, so I'm gonna try to add some stuff to the explanation now. R3TRI8UTI0N (talk) 02:11, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Okay, added a Trivia section and a lot of stuff to the explanation. Request someone help add more information about lunar cycles and some wikipedia links. R3TRI8UTI0N (talk) 02:35, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- Ah, well, I added more (sufficient? ...haven't wikilinked yet) info about the illumination/tide cycles. i.e. about half the time (at least) half reilluminating areas on the night side of Earth + roughly twice a day dragging/flinging the tides 'upwards' (modifying the Sun's own twice-daily effects).
- Had to heavily qualify the secondary Trivia point, for caveats. I mean selenically-specific names aren't rare, when refering to orb sometimes known as Phoebe/Cynthia, until you become more precise about "common English use". Didn't say anything about (the) Earth, but did mention the Sun(/suns in general) in the edit comment. Interesting point to make, but not so much unusual as stemming from long time (way into prehistory!) custom so really being the heavily weighted precedent. 172.70.90.187 05:21, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- ...what? I don't understand. R3TRI8UTI0N (talk) 05:32, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
- "it can also be described by other titles such as "Luna" (directly taken from from Latin mythology/astronomy)." It's not true that "the Moon doesn't have a name". It is the Moon (unlike other moons), plus all kinds of other names (historical, other culture and/or other language; such as Chandra/Igaluk/Chang'e). But it is interesting to note that, until we were able to imagine (and/or see) moons orbiting other things up in the sky, there was just its proper name. Whatever it might be. Only after we anticipated the existence of satellites of other planets (and, perhaps, other satellites of our own planet), having first recognised what other planets actually were (distinct from stars, with those being other suns than our Sun/Sol/Ra/...) was it meaningful that the name(s) we did use for it might be re-used to describe the class of things that were like it. But they then really needed their own fresh names/catalogue numbers. 172.71.242.15 10:11, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
- ...what? I don't understand. R3TRI8UTI0N (talk) 05:32, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
- Reminds me of that conversation from Dragonheart (paraphrized as I only watched the German dub): "So instead of calling me 'dragon" in your language you call me 'dragon' in another language... I think I like it" Elektrizikekswerk (talk) 07:16, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
If there was no Moon, would an Earth astronomer that discovered moons around one of the other planets be considered a loony? These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For (talk) 02:40, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- If there was no moon, it's quite possible there would be no intelligent life on Earth. Also, when Galileo Galilei found Jupiter's moons, he was totally considered loony by some, while others said it's defect of the telescope. Remember that at that point of history, suggesting that if Earth has moon, other planets might have one too was something you could be burned on stake for. -- Hkmaly (talk) 03:13, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- Definitely not. (I see what you did there.) --172.70.247.155 12:55, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
I doubt the title text is intended as a reference to that saying. 172.69.247.51 04:17, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- Yeah, I don't get how that is related either. The title text references that it is pretty, but the nmoves away from that. Not sure how that is related to a quote that doesn't even use the word "pretty". --Lupo (talk) 09:28, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- I mean, the word "beautiful" and "pretty" have common meanings, so I thought about that connection, but if no one else made the connection, so be it. R3TRI8UTI0N (talk) 05:30, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Like many things,[citation needed] it has probably seemed usual whilst we only know our own example. Once we started to find other examples out there, we can discover the ways in which it's an outlier. (Martian: "Well of course there's those two small rock 'stars' visibly zipping around overhead, that's what the sky alsays looks like for me, and I imagine that it's much the same for anyone else..." Earthling/Venusian/Jovian/Tritonian/Plutoid: "...hold my beer!") 141.101.99.133 07:26, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
I've been saying this about the Sun… A great fireball looming in the sky. It remotely powers life. (Even with 90% of that power lost at each trophic level!) It is worshipped as a god. It controls Earthlings' sense of time. When it leaves the sky at a regular interval, a wave of fear follows, and everything seeks shelter and goes dormant until its return. Oh, but it also burns and mutates the flesh of those who stand in its rays, to the point that it's dangerous to look at. Sounds fake, right? And yet, there it is. ~AgentMuffin 08:00, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
I have a personal theory that the constant gravitational massage is responsible for sustaining the Earth's large magnetic field, thus preventing the solar wind making us like Venus or Mars, and probably keeping the tectonic plates on the move. (Oh and dogs domesticated themselves - just saying p.s. same for cats but only after we had barns). RIIW - Ponder it (talk) 09:38, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
I think we’re well past the point of “plans being made” of humans returning to the Moon. Silver (talk) 19:29, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- You mean that we are currently building rockets and stuff to send people to the moon at this very moment? R3TRI8UTI0N (talk) 05:32, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
- We are. Which I hope you're aware of. But if you weren't... this your lucky day! 172.71.242.15 10:11, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
August 1, 2023 the moon is a "Super Moon" KingPenguin (talk) 22:13, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
We need to make a category for these things which would sound outlandish if they didn't exist. 2115 is the first one I think of, and I'm sure there's more. I propose we call it Category: Things That Seem Like They Shouldn't Work But Do in honor of 2540. Take The A Train To Watertown (talk) 12:20, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
@84596Gamma - yes, really. (But not as much as a spoon.) 172.71.178.186 15:00, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
