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pmMeAllofIt t1_jbccxd7 wrote

Reply to hi, my mom keeps saying the moon is upsidedown. by ilysmmate

They call it a dry/wet moon, smiling moon, or Cheshire Cat Moon, and many other names in different cultures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_moon

Simple answer, due to the tilt of the Planet changing the angle of the Sun as we orbit around it and the angle of the orbit of the Moon around Earth, the angle of the "line" of light changes. Depending on where you are, that line of light goes from almost vertical to more horizontal.

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GeekDad62 t1_jbcckza wrote

Reply to hi, my mom keeps saying the moon is upsidedown. by ilysmmate

It may depend on whether she's viewing the moon rising or setting. The moon keeps the same face toward us at all times. As it moves across the sky, the "top" of the moon as the moon is rising will appear at the "bottom* as the moon sets. It's about your perspective as you view the moon... It's not upside down

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beerhunter4430 t1_jbcbnyt wrote

Reply to hi, my mom keeps saying the moon is upsidedown. by ilysmmate

The mom is probably just messing with him.

My mom used to tell me her car had an airplane button and if I pressed it we’d take off flying, and I believed it so I kept my hands to myself.

My uncle also told me when I was like 6, one of our family friends used to eat ears for breakfast. Like, human ears. Even though he was one of the nicest people I ever met, I was scared Shitless of that man until I was nearly in middle school lol

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KAKrisko t1_jbc7fpv wrote

Reply to hi, my mom keeps saying the moon is upsidedown. by ilysmmate

There was a short-lived conspiracy theory in 2018 about the moon having 'moved' or the earth having 'moved' due to a video posted of the moon that seemed to show it being occluded by the earth horizontally instead of vertically. It was explained at the time by a number of people (I don't remember the explanation, but it had to do with where the moon & earth were in their orbits.) I wonder if she came across the old video?

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RngdZ t1_jbc1cv2 wrote

Reply to hi, my mom keeps saying the moon is upsidedown. by ilysmmate

the moon remains the same. its just that the sun's light hits the moon from different directions as days time progress. you can do the same with a flashlight and a ball. move the flashlight around and the ball has different shadows/light zones depending on the angle you shine the light on it.

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bimundial t1_jbbwvbm wrote

Reply to comment by Bob_Sconce in James Webb Telescope captures the same galaxy at three different points in time in a single mind-boggling image by mirzavadoodulbaig

A ballon's surface doesn't have a center. If you inflate it, its area will grow at the same rate everywhere. You can put a point in any place of a sphere's surface and none of them will be the center, that's how it goes with the universe too, as far as I know.

So the big bang is basically that, it was a smaller area, maybe infinitesimaly smaller area, that just got bigger everywhere. Everything was just farther apart. There was no center before, there isn't one now, just like a inflated sphere surface.

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