Moon Chunk Hoax!

[Phatscotty]

Alright, giving up searching the internet on this one and I haven't heard anyone talking about it in over a month. Most people I know and even recently total (female) strangers in random places have all agreed when asked; it looks like a chunk of the moon is missing on the bottom right corner. WTF?

Anyone else noticed this or heard an explanation for why it looks like this?

[mrswdk]

Obama sold it to aliens to pay for the Affordable Healthcare Act.

[riskllama]

what was the ethnicity of these female strangers and, were they hot?

[mrswdk]

Yeah, why has PS been asking multiple female strangers in random places whether or not they think part of the moon is missing? Is this how PS gets the ladies hot?

[Phatscotty]

Yeah, why has PS been asking multiple female strangers in random places whether or not they think part of the moon is missing? Is this how PS gets the ladies hot?

This, along with rocking the shit out of my flip phone, works everytime. I'll probably share my experiences and the results in the Platinum Lounge

[jonesthecurl]

The moon doesn't have corners.

[UCAbears]

The moon has its own light

[strike wolf]

Obama sold it to aliens to pay for the Affordable Healthcare Act.

Then why is my premium still so high?

[degaston]

... it looks like a chunk of the moon is missing on the bottom right corner. WTF?

Anyone else noticed this or heard an explanation for why it looks like this?

It was Omnipotus.

[Bernie Sanders]

It was the big splash from the big flood, here on earth. You can find pieces of the ark on the moon now.

[patches70]

... it looks like a chunk of the moon is missing on the bottom right corner. WTF?

Anyone else noticed this or heard an explanation for why it looks like this?

It was Omnipotus.

Haha! The Tick was a great show.

[Dukasaur]

Alright, giving up searching the internet on this one and I haven't heard anyone talking about it in over a month. Most people I know and even recently total (female) strangers in random places have all agreed when asked; it looks like a chunk of the moon is missing on the bottom right corner. WTF?

Anyone else noticed this or heard an explanation for why it looks like this?

It's a trick based on the way our eyes work. We perceive bright objects as being larger than they are, and dark objects as being smaller than they are. It's the reason fat people were black clothes.

As you can sea, most of the right side (from our point of view) of the moon is dark "seas" that our eyes fool us into thinking they are smaller than they are. To a lesser degree, this is also true of the lower 1/3 of the moon. The "top left" of the moon is the opposite. It is highly pulverized rock that reflects light very brightly and therefore seems to us as being larger than it is.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Alright, giving up searching the internet on this one and I haven't heard anyone talking about it in over a month. Most people I know and even recently total (female) strangers in random places have all agreed when asked; it looks like a chunk of the moon is missing on the bottom right corner. WTF?

Anyone else noticed this or heard an explanation for why it looks like this?

Women's cycles follow lunar cycles.

Women therefore are tied to the moon and notice when pieces go missing.

Boom, phats, you've unearthed some golden stuff.

-TG

[warmonger1981]

The moon has always been associated with the female.

[tzor]

Women's cycles follow lunar cycles.

So do men.

Men get hormonal too

Full moons can result in lower testosterone. That can have all sorts of effects.

For a more nerdy approach ...

Hormonal changes in relation to lunar periodicity in the testis of the forktail rabbitfish, Siganus argenteus.
Monthly patterns of testosterone and behavior in prospective fathers.

[Phatscotty]

How come nobody has noticed it looks different before a month ago?

[Dukasaur]

How come nobody has noticed it looks different before a month ago?

"Nobody" is a pretty broad term.

I very much suspect sample bias. Three or four people that you know may have commented on it in the last month. I very much doubt if that is a representative sample of the entire planet's population.

Personally, I noticed it many years ago, but I understood the light/dark bias in our eyes, so I never considered it important enough to discuss with anyone. You're the first person I know that's ever actually asked about it, so you're the first person I ever explained it to.

[mrswdk]

I very much suspect sample bias. Three or four people that you know may have commented on it in the last month. I very much doubt if that is a representative sample of the entire planet's population.

It could also be researcher bias. The way I see it there are four possibilities:

1) The kind of girls PS goes for tend to be astronomers and other scientists with an interest in discussing outer space
2) The kind of girls PS goes for tend to be too drunk for normal conversations
3) PS has awful chat when hitting on girls
4) PS has been going around bugging anyone who'll listen about whether the moon disproves global warming, and collating their responses for an OT thread

[mrswdk]

Option 5 is that part of the moon really has been stolen as an excuse for NASA to invade outer space in a war that will prop up their military-industrial complex sugar daddies.

[degaston]

How come nobody has noticed it looks different before a month ago?

"Nobody" is a pretty broad term.

I very much suspect sample bias. Three or four people that you know may have commented on it in the last month. I very much doubt if that is a representative sample of the entire planet's population.

Personally, I noticed it many years ago, but I understood the light/dark bias in our eyes, so I never considered it important enough to discuss with anyone. You're the first person I know that's ever actually asked about it, so you're the first person I ever explained it to.

He's not just saying that it looks like there's a chunk missing. He's saying that a month ago, it did not look that way. And that people he's talked to agree, but no one else does. And the media, even the conspiracy-laden sources that he gets his information from, are not reporting on it.

Personally, I suspect mental illness. His "friends" (assuming they're not imaginary), are just humoring him. And if some stranger came up to me and asked me if the moon looked different, I might be inclined to agree with them just to end the conversation and get away as quickly as I could.

[degaston]

Option 5 is that part of the moon really has been stolen as an excuse for NASA to invade outer space in a war that will prop up their military-industrial complex sugar daddies.

Option 6:

[RiskTycoon]

it's simple really. If Chunk of the Moon is missing can't you just send Sloth of the Moon to find him?



Hey you guys!

[tzor]

Option 6:

That happened in 1999, silly.

[degaston]

Option 6:

That happened in 1999, silly.

It was retconned to 2016 due to the unexpected decline* in the lunar exploration program.

*The lunar program actually continued in secret under joint management of the Illuminati and the reptoids, but the transfer of nuclear waste fell behind schedule due to a smaller budget.

[Phatscotty]

Alright, giving up searching the internet on this one and I haven't heard anyone talking about it in over a month. Most people I know and even recently total (female) strangers in random places have all agreed when asked; it looks like a chunk of the moon is missing on the bottom right corner. WTF?

Anyone else noticed this or heard an explanation for why it looks like this?

It's a trick based on the way our eyes work. We perceive bright objects as being larger than they are, and dark objects as being smaller than they are. It's the reason fat people were black clothes.

As you can sea, most of the right side (from our point of view) of the moon is dark "seas" that our eyes fool us into thinking they are smaller than they are. To a lesser degree, this is also true of the lower 1/3 of the moon. The "top left" of the moon is the opposite. It is highly pulverized rock that reflects light very brightly and therefore seems to us as being larger than it is.

Thank you very much Dukky! I think I missed the brightness darkness ratio and how it affects our sight because having a history/family history of all different kinds of sales. me n mine mostly talk about objects creating motion to guide the eye and where it looks therefore what it looks at, which is always by the highest/higher mark-ups to get more people to look at them and spend time in our booth/tent/flea market etc. Maybe I had never noticed it before because I'm 35 now and my eyes aren't 20/20 anymore. I think the moon was probably just in the right cycle a couple months ago so the visual effect had the most impact. However, I've never heard anyone talk about this in my life, I meant 'nobody' as in that I know of or have ever known. I kind of thought maybe the moon did take an impact because 2-3 nights after I had first noticed it (over the period of my life) there seemed to by a dust plume that expanded out past the bottom right corner actually making it appear to be bigger on the bottom right. Total speculation that an asteroid hit it.

Nonetheless, this thread is a riot! I get most people are ripping on me, it's totes cool I can laugh at myself and I'm glad someone took the time to give a serious answer. A couple people even turning a question which ends up has a totally reasonable answer as to why in fact it does look the way it looks, meaning the question of why it looks that way is totally justified as well as why it is not a sign of mental illness nevermind they ignore the way it looks is the way it looks, and nevermind the fact I would bet considerable money that very few of the people who want to make this about me being dumb for not knowing the answer to this question did not know the answer themselves. However, I've laughed my ass off at the responses....even Bernies.