• barkingspiders@infosec.pub
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    3 months ago

    I got upset about this as a child. Years of adults of telling me that the moon was a night only thing and it was all lies.

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    3 months ago

    Though I’d seen it during the day all my life, I was in my twenties when my brain made the connection and I was deeply ashamed that it’d taken so long.

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      3 months ago

      Nothing to be ashamed of - the world is too complex to connect everything, and we all miss out on something very simple :)

      Somewhat related XKCD

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        I have an extension that tells me exactly which xkcd it is without having to click the link. It’s not a browser extension, though. It’s in my brain.

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          3 months ago

          lol

          Memory’s a weird subject

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    The moon feels much more real to me when I see it in the daytime. At night it’s so bright I can’t really make out the details (my eyes aren’t the best), but during the day I see it very clearly and it looks more 3D, makes it feel much more like the big rock in space that it is.

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    It may be apocryphal, but supposedly one of my brother’s elementary school teachers was going on one day about how it’s impossible to see the moon during daylight and a kid pointed out the window and said “it’s right there.”

    Seems pretty stupid but knowing where I grew up I don’t disbelieve it happened.

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    I always hated those “spot what’s wrong with the picture” puzzles where they would mark the moon being out as something wrong.