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Does the moon reflect sunlight, or is it a source of light on it's own?


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Ok, so here's the challenge.

Ask your local Mama and Papa store where the moonlight comes from. Or the family.

Apparently it comes from the moon.

Bless them.

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1 minute ago, pgrahmm said:

I knew a lady from the Philippines that thought the moon in the US & the moon in the PI were 2 different moons....

We used to ask the Filipina bar girls which was closer - the moon or Cebu. The answer was often the moon because they could see it.

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19 minutes ago, sipi said:

Ok, so here's the challenge.

Ask your local Mama and Papa store where the moonlight comes from. Or the family.

You spend enough in their ma and pa shop and they will tell you whatever you want to hear

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I used to think that when the tide went out, the water just all went to the other side ---didn't believe my older Sister when she told me its all about the Moon... (although she did tell me a lot of other Mincey's in our childhood)

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Well there is a mirror up there that reflects laser light so I guess the reflection theory partly works. 

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As ridiculously fascinating as this story is.

 

Let me concentrate on the real world. I need to go to the Store to buy cat food.

 

......thats where this thread features in my priorities!

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I don’t know about this light thing BUT a rabbit lives in the Thailand one and a man lives in the England one.

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The misses told me the moon emits it's own light because the sun is a couple of hundred miles away and it's too far to reflect.

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19 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

No - there's no sunlight at night.

That's why astronauts can only fly to the sun at night. If they went in the day they would all be killed.

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It must reflect direct sunlight sometimes and indirect from the Earth, at other times. If there were no nearby suns, distant 'star' light might be enough to give a planet or moon a bit of a glow.

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The answer to this question is that:

 

aa.  Our Moon reflects light.

 

bb.  Our Moon also emits radiation, of its own.

 

I am sure that everybody here understands Black Body Radiation.  Correct?

 

And so, even if our Moon was by itself, far, far out in space...

 

Still, we would be able to calculate the amount of radiation (even light) that our Moon would radiate.

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You know, sometimes I wonder why I reply to some of these questions....

 

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17 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

You know, sometimes I wonder why I reply to some of these questions....

 

I wonder that as well when you have your own thread to reply!

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