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Thank you Eiji Aonuma, very cool.
Aside from being a meme, the factoid isn’t even true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking#Moons
All twenty known moons in the Solar System that are large enough to be round are tidally locked with their primaries [planets]
https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/429/the-moons-orbit-and-rotation/ This is a good one too!
It just says other moons. Not all other moons. Meaning the meme isn’t untrue… Right?
I was skeptical thank you for the confirmation. Especially because the time it takes to lock depends on the relative size of the bodies. Our moon being exceptionally big relatively to our planet, if it has locked, then relatively smaller moons should have locked long before.
Btw, the locking is not perfect, there’s a little oscillation of the moon called libration, so we can actually see about 59% of it over the years.
Knows that we aren’t to be trusted, can’t turn it’s back on us for a second.
Or is it just waiting for its second chance to hit us?
Second chance???
It doesn’t show us its face. Where do you think the word “mooning” comes from?
Kanye West takes notes
All of the other moons are severely autistic. Ours is balls-out confident. “Yeah, bitch, what. You blinked.”
It’s tidally locked to earth. Earth isn’t tidally locked to it. Happens slowly due to gravity and differential mass. Relatively stable satellites end up tidally locked given the time. Pretty sure lack of water/liquids/atmosphere hastens the process.
Yeah, Earth’s moon isn’t the only satellite to tidally lock to its planet. In fact, several are.
Photos and Deimos are tidally locked to Mars. 8 of Jupiter’s moons and 15 of Saturn’s. Pluto and Charon.
Mercury is tidally locked to the sun, but it’s in 3:2 resonance rather than 1:1.
Now those are some fun facts.
Can you ELI5 that last one?
Mercury orbits the sun every 88 earth days. It spins on its axis every 59 earth days, relative to an outside observer (sidereal day.) That makes the solar day (from sunrise to sunrise) 179 earth days long.
Guys please upvote we all need an eli5
The Moon … shocked and stunned to see that life survived after that impact … and to see the idiots that evolved after
It needs to face us so it can tell our tides what to do. If it turned around the tide wouldn’t hear it.
I thought this was a science community?
The earth isn’t flat, the moon is
I might believe this one.
PROLONGED EYE CONTACT
We’re just soooo good looking 🙂
It’s the heaviest part of the moon which face us. And even when it will reach it’s farthest and definitive orbit ( the moon slowly move away from us), it will still the same face toward us.
Also our big moon has to deal with sharing space with our horde of trophy trash moons
Moon is just making us work for it: https://scitechdaily.com/images/DSCOVR-Far-Side-Moon-Crop.gif
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