I know. I was making a pedantic joke. 
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With a single comment you’ve added several items to my gourmet to-try list. 
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Credit where credit is due:
… but I must admit the sketch made me try a couple of cheeses.
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Just dust off some old plans from the wacky 1950ies and 1960ies.
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It’s dark for the exact same reason the Dark Ages were dark - we don’t know a lot about it. There is a deep connection between illumination and knowledge in the human language, such as “bright”, “dim”, “brilliant”, “dull”, or, hey, even “illumination”.
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The CNSA seems to have adopted Starfleet’s insignia.
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At least post a clip of the recording.
Those snippets of audio, responses to questions, are some of my favorite moments listening to an album. Pink Floyd was not something my peers were listening too. After picking up one cassette (a French import, “Musique De La Vallée”, Obscured By Clouds) from the bargain bin after a particularly brutal quarter at university to listen to on my way home, I ended up saving up and buying the back catalog bit by bit for the long lonely train trips home. Each album was a gem, and none of my friends much cared for my discovery. Despite my love for the albums, I rarely go back to them.
Trivia. The BBC paid Pink Floyd to play live during the Apollo 11 landing. Little of the live jam session has been released.
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Looks red.
Must be Mars.
Or Ultima Thule.
I was wondering if china has there very own receiveing dish
as nasa used parkes in australia when the earth turned
well the window must be tight when whatever method available
Its unlikely I would have bought that album though.
In this day and age, communications with a vehicle at the moon are much easier to achieve. And since its an unmanned mission, large amounts of redundancy are just as important in the communications infrastructure.
Historically, Nazis make the best rocket scientists.
Somehow I doubt that applies to the current crop of domestic US Nazis. And anyway I suspect that most of the German scientists and engineers recruited by the US and USSR were into Nazism for its self preservation properties, rather than being totally in to the ideology.
Do US Nazis employ their own engineers?
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Well, maybe he hasn’t enough Nazi Rocket Scientists, but Nazis in general??? BTW: Did you just pull Godwin’s Law?
And calling them the Dark Ages also helped us fundamentally misunderstand and mischaracterize history for a long time. (As well as playing off ugly “Black things are bad, white things are noble” stereotyping)
Calling it the dark side makes people sound as ignorant as flat-earthers.
It’s legal to do so if you wish, of course.
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They’re following the Apollo tradition by overexposing their photos so they look wrong.
This is an actual photograph of the Earth and the Moon together
If we were to define Venus as “white” the Moon would be about a 16% gray
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Just a thought…
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How many years before Moon Silk jackets are a fashion thing?
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Every four weeks.
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Every four weeks what?
Luna takes four weeks to orbit Earth (and to rotate on its axis). For two of those weeks, Luna’s far side is away from the sun and it’s night time on the moon’s far side. Then dawn comes to the far side, and night falls on the Earth-facing side, again for two weeks.
Every four weeks, the far side of the moon is dark for two weeks. You said,
…implying that it’s dark all the time. I believe that’s what @Nelsie meant.
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Oh, I see. I certainly didn’t mean to imply what was inferred. I meant to convey “after a two week period of day, there is a two week period of night”.
You articulated it much better than I.
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I have one complaint about this graphic, why is the shadow on the Earth not inline with the direction of the Sun?
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