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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Find the Man in the Moon
NASA ^
| 15 Sep, 2024
| Image Credit & Copyright: Dani Caxete
Posted on 09/15/2024 6:20:07 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Have you ever seen the Man in the Moon? This common question plays on the ability of humans to see pareidolia -- imagining familiar icons where they don't actually exist. The textured surface of Earth's full Moon is home to numerous identifications of iconic objects, not only in modern western culture but in world folklore throughout history. Examples, typically dependent on the Moon's perceived orientation, include the Woman in the Moon and the Rabbit in the Moon. One facial outline commonly identified as the Man in the Moon starts by imagining the two dark circular areas -- lunar maria -- here just above the Moon's center, to be the eyes. Surprisingly, there actually is a man in this Moon image -- a close look will reveal a real person -- with a telescope -- silhouetted against the Moon. This well-planned image was taken in 2016 in Cadalso de los Vidrios in Madrid, Spain.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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posted on
09/15/2024 6:20:28 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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posted on
09/15/2024 6:20:50 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list
🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔
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posted on
09/15/2024 6:21:28 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
There’s no man on the moon.
It’s Alice.
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posted on
09/15/2024 6:23:40 PM PDT
by
C210N
(Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
09/15/2024 6:25:58 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: telescope115
Man in the moon? I don’t know. I am not a biologist. /s
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posted on
09/15/2024 6:31:52 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Goes well with REM’s tune now soldered into my mind. Now I’m going to be hearing it as I drift off to sleep. Heh. :-)
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posted on
09/15/2024 6:33:54 PM PDT
by
AFB-XYZ
(Two options: 1) Stand up, or 2) Bend over)
To: AFB-XYZ
I did not even think of that song. Now I will wake up hearing it in the middle of the night.
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posted on
09/15/2024 6:36:03 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: AFB-XYZ
And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.
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posted on
09/15/2024 6:39:43 PM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(With a cough and a sputter, the original lying dog-faced pony soldier is led out to pasture. )
To: C210N
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posted on
09/15/2024 6:49:34 PM PDT
by
justme4now
(Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
To: NautiNurse
It used to look like Jackie Gleason...How sweet it is...
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posted on
09/15/2024 6:49:44 PM PDT
by
skinny old man
(Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
To: NautiNurse
There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.
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posted on
09/15/2024 6:52:13 PM PDT
by
Adder
(End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
To: Adder
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posted on
09/15/2024 7:17:43 PM PDT
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NautiNurse
(With a cough and a sputter, the original lying dog-faced pony soldier is led out to pasture. )
To: MtnClimber
I see an astronomeer standing on the forhead of a rather large face profile.
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posted on
09/15/2024 7:44:32 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
But, is the astronomer a man or a woman? Are you a biologist?
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posted on
09/15/2024 7:47:08 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
I zoomed in hoping to find big foot, but found the astronomer instead.
He does’t look like he has boobs. Not that that means anything anymore.
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posted on
09/15/2024 7:51:01 PM PDT
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DannyTN
To: DannyTN
These days boobs = man and no boobs = woman. Glad I went to skool when I was smarter than the biologists!
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posted on
09/15/2024 7:58:31 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
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posted on
09/15/2024 8:04:30 PM PDT
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telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: MtnClimber
“”Glad I went to skool when I was smarter than the biologists!””
When Riley Gaines asked the PhD Anthropologist “expert” if you excavated the skeletons of a man and a woman, can you tell the difference, and his immediate answer was “no” EVERYONE around him started laughing. He became enraged that anyone would dare laugh at his “expertise.”
Another clear example that, sometimes, PhD stands for Piled Higher & Deeper.
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