More & more absurdity.
Why Is The Moon Not Spinning Then?
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Ophiolite
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No my dear. The Earth rotates once a day. What makes you think the moon rotates once a day? Senility? Premenstrual tension? Menopause? Poor reading comprehension? Trolling?
goose
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if the moon is rotating around us, and we see the same side of the moon always... THEN ITS SPINNING... think about it, if you hold the moon facing one direction while it rotates around the earth, (lets say side A of the moon is facing toward the sun), then you will see side A of the moon when the earth is between the sun and the moon, but when the moon comes to the other side of earth, then you would see side B, the other side of the moon if it did not spin... and thats deffinently not the case
Clear thinking????
Now I was wrong about the once a day, it is 29 days, but it does rotate around its axis...(hey, I am only an Alaskan governor, honest mistake)Look at the moon from above and you will see that it ROTATES around it axis...
For idiots:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_day
No go down in flames, honeybun....
http://www.jimloy.com/astro/moon4.htm
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So when you rotate a rock around you on a string, is the rock rotating independently of the rotation of the string? It can, and can't; moderately independently of the rotation.
goose
Registered Senior Member
If you take a point of view that isnt on the rock or anywhere along the string, (that is to say some distance away from it), then the rock would be rotating, yes... its a 1:1 spin-orbit coupling ratio. Is it really that hard to see what im saying?
Im bad at explaining things, but at least i can see it clearly
Ask an astrophysicist, he can explain it better than me. Here are a few links by the way that might convince you:
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=142
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/moon.htm
and the best link, because it has a diagram, is:
http://physics.fortlewis.edu/astronomy/astronomy today/chaisson/AT308/HTML/AT30803.HTM
This thread reminds me of the Plane on a conveyor belt thread.
A misconception based on a false assumption that has to be explained again and again, ad nauseam.
Perhaps, when the US gets its moon mission together we could send the Mythbusters to the moon to do some big experiment.
A misconception based on a false assumption that has to be explained again and again, ad nauseam.
Perhaps, when the US gets its moon mission together we could send the Mythbusters to the moon to do some big experiment.
May not be needed as Ken Dine seems to have stopped posting his nonsense after my post 209.
But you continue yours.
Tell where there is an error by citing and correcting it, if you can.
hello every body
thank you for everybody to put in evidece this fact
the fact that the only aster that have a proper spin period wich is equal to the rotation period*( Ps=Pr)
i ask a supplemeent question
IMAGIN for one reason the moon is divided in two halves ....
the two halves are seen in earth to be too fixed position halves
in all other eventualities (when Ps s different to Pr the too halves are seen to be in mouvement with apeed = to Ps-Pr )
a proposal answer for the general question !
IMAGIN that you have too forces you can fixe the position of the moon spin toward the earth mouvement
the second force wich can be involved is magnetic one
so imagin that the seen side of the moon is rich in iron!
thank you very much
thank you for everybody to put in evidece this fact
the fact that the only aster that have a proper spin period wich is equal to the rotation period*( Ps=Pr)
i ask a supplemeent question
IMAGIN for one reason the moon is divided in two halves ....
the two halves are seen in earth to be too fixed position halves
in all other eventualities (when Ps s different to Pr the too halves are seen to be in mouvement with apeed = to Ps-Pr )
a proposal answer for the general question !
IMAGIN that you have too forces you can fixe the position of the moon spin toward the earth mouvement
the second force wich can be involved is magnetic one
so imagin that the seen side of the moon is rich in iron!
thank you very much
I rest my case.
Plane on a conveyor belt all over again.
No matter how many times you explain things to people, some of them will
never understand.
Plane on a conveyor belt all over again.
No matter how many times you explain things to people, some of them will
never understand.
Including most who are certain they do understand.
POACB. Told you.
So no 1 knows why Luna doesn't spin.
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Exactly. That's the thing about idiots - they aren't intelligent enough to realize that they ARE idiots!!
Ophiolite
Valued Senior Member
I believe this was your first contribution to this thread:
"If the moon rotates, we should see well over 90% of its surface."
It is apparent you have learned nothing in the last sixteen (?) pages. May I be so bold as to ask what educational level you reached?
Syzyqys. Hey, genius, look at the links you posted. Wiki says a lunar day is the Moon rotating on it's axis with respect to the Sun. NOT the Earth. The Moon is gravitationally locked one side, as shown in your other link. The images show the side facing the sun will change as it moves around the Earth, with one face always facing the Earth, with different parts of it in sunlight and in darkness as it moves around the Earth, giving the ILLUSION that the Moon rotates on it's axis. That is why as the second article says that the Earth will always appear overhead.