Mastodawn

I just keep forgetting about the moon mission (too much awful US-related news, and also too much life stuff happening). Looks like they're actually doing it!

The part that I'm actually excited about is the perspective of looking back at Earth from the Moon. That is COOL. I spent some time my last night in NZ looking up at the Moon, thinking about astronauts, and also tilting my head to try to understand why the moon looked upside-down to me from NZ!

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kit 5d ago

@sundogplanets
Everything is messed up in the North, even the sun goes the wrong way across the sky, but it didn't occur to me that the crescent moon was different until I looked it up for a tattoo.

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muddle

@hypostase @sundogplanets That's a mad observation and something I'd never thought about before. It makes sense if you consider people at the poles both looking at the equator, then something that comes from the east will be coming from one person's left and the other person's right.
I wonder how people puzzle through this. Is it common to visualise things in 3d? I assume it is but since it's never something that's come up in conversation I have no way of knowing how other people think about it. Most interesting!