...well, if you wanted to meet them halfway, you could concede the moon is a light source in the far FAR infrared...
Isn't it only lit up in IR because of energy absorbed from the sun though? IIRC the moon doesn't have a molten core and therefore does not radiate any energy it didn't pick up elsewhere.
The IR is being reemitted...but it is being emitted, not reflected.
But how long is it going to take to explain to a layman's audience about IR reemission?
That's why you just say "The moon reflects light from the sun". It's not entirely correct, but it's easily understood and gets the general idea across.
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-revprez, with yet another brilliant rebuttal.
Levy Leah wrote:You know, having lived just a stone's throw away from Waco my entire life, I can honestly say that I have never met the likes of these people mentioned in this article. Though I suppose it is possible that I simply have tuned out such nonsense over the years, I have never seen anyone in Waco, or for that matter anywhere, get so upset over such a trivial issue.
You probably didn't bring up any "controversial topics" in talking to them. I lived in Houston for over six years and the "nicest people" would turn into flaming retards at the mere mention of anything remotely scientific that contradicted their precious book.
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"Watching Sarli argue with Vympel, Stas, Schatten and the others is as bizarre as the idea of the 40-year-old Virgin telling Hugh Hefner that Hef knows nothing about pussy, and that he is the expert."--Elfdart
And Waco at that. This is a town that wants to be a city but just can't make the transition. This is also where the Branch Davidians were. And, as I mentioned in another thread, the only reason it's as big as it is, is because of Baylor and the fact that it straddles I-35 between Austin/San Antonio and Dallas/Fort Worth.
There's a reason even Texans sometimes pronounce the name Whacko.
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bilateralrope wrote:I wonder how they reacted to last nights lunar eclipse. Or weren't they able to see it ?
A sign of the second coming.
A trick of Satan.
Evolutionist lies.
Government conspiracy.
Blame the homosexuals and atheists again.
"everytime a person is born the Earth weighs just a little more."--DMJ on StarTrek.com
"You see now you are using your thinking and that is not a good thing!" DMJay on StarTrek.com
"Watching Sarli argue with Vympel, Stas, Schatten and the others is as bizarre as the idea of the 40-year-old Virgin telling Hugh Hefner that Hef knows nothing about pussy, and that he is the expert."--Elfdart
