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NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’
Washington Examiner ^ | April 25, 2024 | Heather Hunter

Posted on 04/25/2024 11:52:32 AM PDT by packagingguy

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is being mocked for suggesting the far side of the moon is always “dark” and can’t explain why China is interested in exploring that part of the moon.

“What do you think the Chinese are trying to get at, at the back side of the moon?” Rep. David Trone (D-MD) asked Nelson at a congressional hearing last week.

“They are going to have a lander on the far side of the moon, which is the side which is always in dark. Uh, we’re not planning to go there,” he said.

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TOPICS: China; Front Page News; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: billnelson; ccp; china; clueless; darksideofthemoon; davidtrone; lowiqvoters; maryland; moon; moonbattery; nasa; ourleaders; russia
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To: packagingguy
past time for old nelson to retire
geez billy we do have a lunar satellite that takes pictures of the moon, and we have picture of the backside of the moon.
61 posted on 04/25/2024 1:38:02 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: V_TWIN

Has China Just Found An Alien Base On The Moon?

https://news.yahoo.com/has-china-just-found-an-alien-base-on-the-moon-103404548.html


62 posted on 04/25/2024 1:54:49 PM PDT by Rio
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To: packagingguy
I have to give the guy just a little slack here...

In one way, the back side of the moon IS dark, since there is no way you can see it FROM THE EARTH. A satellite that is orbiting Earth would have no line-of-sight with the "dark" side either.

If you were to land a probe there, there would be no way to see or communicate with it without a relay satellite in lunar orbit.

In this way, there is a "dark side" of the moon.

That said, I have no idea why the Chinese would want to land there.

63 posted on 04/25/2024 1:56:55 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: packagingguy

Well it is getting difficult to find nice secluded parking spots by the lake for romantic evenings...


64 posted on 04/25/2024 2:01:05 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: LeoTDB69

to all. The moon is locked to the Earth, meaning that it always points the same face towards our planet. The dark side of the Moon is the side that we cannot see from Earth because it is permanently facing away from us.


65 posted on 04/25/2024 2:03:25 PM PDT by Ikeon (My only issues with stupid people are, they encouraged to talk and post stupid opinions.. )
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To: Rurudyne

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/


66 posted on 04/25/2024 2:09:06 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

See my post #66


67 posted on 04/25/2024 2:10:19 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

Which is why its always dark. Everyone knows Germans wire for 220, only China can produce the adapters.


68 posted on 04/25/2024 2:10:27 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: packagingguy

The secret Nazi moonbase is actually in Antarctica. Because nobody would ever think of looking for a moonbase in Antarctica. Those guys are sneaky.


69 posted on 04/25/2024 2:11:33 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: All

“Which one’s Floyd”?


70 posted on 04/25/2024 2:16:47 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Dementia ain't just a river in Egypt. )
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To: packagingguy

They are going to the other side of the moon to build something they don’t want us to know about.


71 posted on 04/25/2024 2:19:38 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: packagingguy
Scientists want to deploy telescope on the far side of Moon..NASA and the US Department of Energy are working on putting a radio telescope on the Moon's far side to learn more about the "Dark Ages"of the universe.

... Despite the fact that a lot of people know it as the “dark side of the moon,” the far side of the moon is not always dark. It is only called the dark side because it cannot be seen from Earth but in reality, it has its own day and night cycles.Mar 14, 2023 - https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/telescope-far-side-of-the-moon-universe-dark-ages-8497173/

72 posted on 04/25/2024 2:22:59 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: V_TWIN

The twits at nasa know that and have since the 1960’s.


73 posted on 04/25/2024 2:33:25 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Ikeon
to all. The moon is locked to the Earth, meaning that it always points the same face towards our planet. The dark side of the Moon is the side that we cannot see from Earth because it is permanently facing away from us.

Yes, the moon is "Tidally locked" to the earth. The side of the moon permanently facing away from us experiences light and dark (day and night) in a 29.5 (earth) day cycle, just the same as the side that faces the earth. The lunar hemisphere that faces away from the earth is more accurately described as the "far side of the moon". No educated person calls it the dark side...

74 posted on 04/25/2024 2:33:25 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Magnum44

75 posted on 04/25/2024 2:39:17 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: eastforker

It would be “dark” to radio communications, which does make it seem a bit odd. Could they put a repeater in lunar orbit? Are they planning periodic data retrieval?


76 posted on 04/25/2024 2:40:57 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: packagingguy

Next NASA will go to the Sun at night when it’s dark.


77 posted on 04/25/2024 2:47:23 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

“Pink Floyd” was (is) a fictitious character - sort of. Syd Barrett named the group after his 2 favorite blues artists, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

Jethro Tull was a real person: An English agronomist, agriculturist, writer, and inventor of considerable repute in English history. (Many people used to think Ian Anderson was “Jethro Tull”.)

Uriah Heep was a character in a Dickens novel.

Tull and Heep are still touring!


78 posted on 04/25/2024 2:47:28 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

per wiki....The name is derived from the given names of two blues musicians whose Piedmont blues records Barrett had in his collection, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.


79 posted on 04/25/2024 2:48:11 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Paul R.; gundog
Oops, I forgot this:

/sarc

80 posted on 04/25/2024 2:51:42 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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