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To: BenLurkin
Didn't we used call it the Dark side of the moon? Are we really that politically correct now?
5 posted on 09/12/2015 11:43:29 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1

“Didn’t we used call it the Dark side of the moon? Are we really that politically correct now? “

Assuming you’re not being sarcastic, although the moon keeps one side toward Earth the other gets just as much sun as the side facing us. It was called the dark side of the moon because we knew nothing about it.


11 posted on 09/12/2015 11:47:22 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Mastador1
Didn't we used call it the Dark side of the moon? Are we really that politically correct now?

Actually, far side is a better term since all manner of UFO believers think the far/dark side is never visible from Earth and houses an alien base.

25 posted on 09/12/2015 12:01:30 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Mastador1

Dark is a misnomer since the sun lights up each half the same pretty much over the course of a rotation around the earth. During a new moon the half we see is dark.


27 posted on 09/12/2015 12:03:18 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Mastador1

Pink Floyd copyrighted that term, we had to find something else.


44 posted on 09/13/2015 8:06:51 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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