Moon
Until three days ago, I'd always thought the various phases of the moon were caused as the Earth's shadow passed across the Moon.

It was only on Friday as I sat in the park drinking cocktails and saw the Sun and the Moon in the same sky that something in my brain said: 'that doesn't make sense...'

We eventually modelled the movements of the Earth, Moon and Sun using limes and worked out how it actually works...
(ComplexStuff Was confused by life on, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:09, 14 replies)

This is how...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phases
(ComplexStuff Was confused by life on, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:09, closed)

I like this
for the way you worked it out for yourself. Newton had apples, you had limes, so you're following prestigious traditions.
(Mr._Pickles, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:22, closed)

working it out...
yes, the fact that we managed to work it out ourselves did make me feel fractionally less retarded for having gotten it wrong for all these years...
(ComplexStuff Was confused by life on, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:46, closed)

You discovered it's just God's will?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:26, closed)

I once had to explain
to two little old ladies on a plane from Singapore to Heathrow, why the flight took 13 hours, but local time was only about 5 hours later when they got home.

I think they got it. They'd been puzzling about it for ages, and I politely interrupted their conversation as it was doing my head in!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 13:25, closed)

"WE"
how many tards were with you at the time?
(waxdart hello., Mon 19 Jul 2010, 13:31, closed)

tards
I can't help but smile.

There were three of us... :/
(ComplexStuff Was confused by life on, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:50, closed)

Until three minutes ago, I'd always thought the various phases of the moon were caused as the Earth's shadow passed across the Moon.

( Peej, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:02, closed)

I still do.
:|
( bennyhillslovechild, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 22:22, closed)

But now i've read that link above.
I still prefer the shadow theory. :(
( bennyhillslovechild, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 22:24, closed)

THERE IS NO MOON

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:19, closed)

Eclipses are still our fault though?
(Benzyl, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 14:13, closed)

Of the moon or of the sun?

( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 15:17, closed)

Up until I met my current fella
I thought the sun and moon were the same....Sun for daytime that changed into the Moon at night. Ooops! I clearly paid no attention whatsoever in science class at school >.<
( DUMBLONDE is a rubber lover girl, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 16:49, closed)