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Can someone who's there are been there tell me if the Moon is upside down?
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2016-01-31, 05:58 PM #1The Undying
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Is the Moon in Australia upside down?
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2016-01-31, 06:02 PM #2Immortal
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Google is a really hard tool to use I guess...
Second google image answer by the way, if the answer wasn't obvious to you. But I guess I took the bait like a champ.When googling 4 letters is asking too much fact-checking.
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2016-01-31, 06:02 PM #3The Undying
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Which way is up?
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2016-01-31, 06:03 PM #4Epic!
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I lol'd when I saw this thread, not gonna lie. The moon has an "up"?
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2016-01-31, 06:06 PM #5Mechagnome
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I had the same reaction. Also did you know that modern day rap stars have advance degrees in geology and astrophysics?! Originally Posted by Demona3
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2016-01-31, 06:08 PM #6Void Lord
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I don't know, what does the Rapper B.o.B think, I want to be sure this time!
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2016-01-31, 06:18 PM #7I am Murloc!
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Mare Frigoris for example is north. Originally Posted by Kalis
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2016-01-31, 06:23 PM #8The Undying
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North is up? Originally Posted by ranzino
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2016-01-31, 06:24 PM #9Deleted
Thats why the water there flushes the other side around as well.
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2016-01-31, 06:28 PM #10DeletedThe upper part of the Moon to any given spot on Earth, I guess. It's always oriented the same way in relation that spot, after all. Originally Posted by Kalis
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2016-01-31, 06:33 PM #11The Undying
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Surely the part of the moon facing us is the bottom, hence the term 'mooning'. Originally Posted by Sydänyö
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2016-01-31, 06:34 PM #12DeletedWell, the ass has an upper and a lower part, too. Originally Posted by Kalis
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2016-01-31, 06:41 PM #13Bloodsail Admiral
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No, why the hell would it be. It's not going to change its orientation its in fucking orbit.
The question should read 'does the moon's appearance change relative to my vantage point on Earth?' In which case, yes but not in any discernible way.
Also, water 'flushing' or rotating the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere has to do with the Coriolis effect which relates to the Earth's rotation and angular momentum.
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2016-01-31, 06:49 PM #14Deleted
Blood Moon 2015 in Australia Blood Moon 2015 in the UK 
I think everyone can see for themselves. Should be obvious enough.
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2016-01-31, 06:52 PM #15Elemental Lord
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I won't lie, I hurt my head thinking about it.
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2016-01-31, 07:31 PM #16Warchief
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Originally Posted by Hubcap
Can someone who's there are been there tell me if the Moon is upside down?
Just think of it this way.
When considering that the distance between opposite sides of the planet represents a rotation of 180*degrees, and we know that the moon is gravitationally locked to our planet, meaning it always faces one direction, then all you would need to do, is take any picture of the moon, and rotate it 180* degrees. That is how you would get its representation in the opposite side of the globe.
Took a little thinking, but the fact that the moon does not rotate but is locked gravitationally to our planet was the key.“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”
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2016-01-31, 07:42 PM #17I am Murloc!
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Originally Posted by Themerlin
You failed
the moon rotates ( AFAIK every celestial body in universe is known to rotate thus far), but his rotation period matches his orbit period more or less. the "more or less" is the cause you can see more than 50 % of moon's surface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libration#Lunar_libration
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2016-01-31, 07:43 PM #18Elemental Lord
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Well, any picture of the moon can be rotated 360 degrees in any spot. Originally Posted by Themerlin
However, when we look at the moon we start at the horizon and look up - and that gives that moon is upside down:
https://sciencebasedlife.wordpress.c...ence-fact-514/
That suggests something odd when you are close to the equator - the moon is up-side-down when it sets (and turned 90 degrees compared to north/south). I assume someone can provide pictures of that.
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Up compared to the horizon - as indicated above it is not intuitive. Originally Posted by Kalis
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2016-01-31, 07:57 PM #19The Undying
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Australia is so damn weird. How do they even exist? How are there people even still alive in Australia?
It seems impossible to me.
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2016-01-31, 08:02 PM #20Void Lord
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