this one could go troll or dumbass, hard to tell
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Probably started as a troll and picked up by dumbasses. Like the Flat Earth Society.
I wonder if the Finland conspiracy has any genuine believers yet...
I thought it was Belgium?
This kinda makes me feel old.
The version I heard I thought it was New Zealand... 😝
New Zealand doesn't exist. Show me New Zealand on a map
(this joke works because New Zealand is left off of a stupid number of maps)
But then where do the waffles come from? And the chocolates? And diamonds?
All those things come from Bielefeld !
You have been lied to your whole life !
It's fucking impossible to know nowadays, it has even gone into "this is so crazy that it can't be a troll" territory. I'm at a loss of words almost daily from the level of idiocy and ignorance that infects every damn comment section everywhere. The bar for most stupid imaginable is racing lower and lower every damn second, and it's already WAY beyond what should be possible.
Jesus people are dumb.
First time I hear them being referred to as "Jesus people"
Well I guess there was an implied comma but this works too I guess. 🤣
I have a coworker who insists that global warming is a hoax because plants give off oxygen, not carbon dioxide. Can't even get a foothold in that kind of stupid.
It’s particularly choice that the reader-added context uses simple.Wikipedia.org
Wait, as far as I understand, this is a wikipedia page for severely Learning disabled people? Great, since I know a lot of idiots.
It's for children, people with learning difficulties, and/or people still learning English. https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_write_Simple_English_pages
The reflection (scattering) of light can be seen on the picture they choose to make their point. Sure, the comment is correct that anything you can see scatters light otherwise you would not see it, but in the picture it is particular obvious where the light source is from the reflection on the rock.
I wonder if they think “reflection” only means the kind of reflection you see in a mirror.
specular, rather than diffuse, for reference
when i do it is called spectacular
It's also a pretty dumb rock to use as an example. If the moon were that color it would be way brighter than it is currently. And with a rock as shiny as that you would clearly see a reflection of the sun as well.
In real life the moon is about as bright as dark asphalt and because of all the dust it is very dull as well. So a matt black paint would probably be closer to what the moon looks like. Still bright as hell compared to the nothingness that surrounds it. Our eyes are also very good at low light conditions, once we get used to the dark a little bit of light goes a long way. So we can even pick out shadows in the moonlight on earth. A brighter moon would be annoying I think, imagine having some nights that look like early evening on a sunny day. But if we evolved with it we would be used to it I guess.
Just like with flat earth the glowing moon theory fails to explain the phases of the moon or things like eclipses. And why the glow doesn't follow black body radiation, but instead perfectly follows the tell tale signs of reflected sunlight, Fraunhofer lines and all. And where the energy to generate that light would come from, making something glow as bright as the moon takes a lot of power. And why that power source selectively lights some parts some of the time. And where does the sunlight that hits the moon ends up, if it's not reflected.
I would think it's a troll, but these days you'd never know. Even if a troll for example claims vaccines cause autism for the grift, idiots still believe it.
Everything in the universe reflects light. Except black holes. Only things you cannot see do not reflect light.
And things in itself that are too small to see with even a microscope do not reflect light right? Light might interact there but will not reflect in the usual sense, it can however emit light though. As far as I understand that is.
There is a lot to it wavelength, size of reflecting object (if it's smaller than the wavelength it can't reflect anything back also applies to emitting photons), reflectance or the fraction of light reflected at the surface of the object (the energy it obsorbs vs energy it kicks back), phase shift, if the photon is traveling from one medium to another with a lower or higher refractive index (redirection of a wave as it passess from one medium to another) it will change the oscillations (kinda like a feedback loop, photons effect electrons in the medium and electrons effect photons right back) like looking at a pencil behind a glass of water distorts what you see. I probably missed some things but I gotta admit it always fascinates me to think about light and reflection.
It only seems like rocks are brighter when you are dumber than a rock.
Do they think all rocks glow?
I mean, technically rocks do glow.
Technically everything glows.
Surprisingly, this even applies to black holes (i.e. Hawking radiation).
These people are walking among us. Worse - they sometimes breed.
I feel for every child that has to find out their parents are fucking stupid.
Honestly, it sucks. I have never been able to take advice from either of my parents as an adult. Of course as a teen they seemed dumb to me, but even then I recognized that I was a teenager and that perception was typical for my age. But they never got any smarter. Frankly, the older I've grown, the more like children my parents seem to me. As a kid they always told me I was super smart. Now as an adult, do they listen to me if I try to correct their mistakes? They do not. They've been suckers for cons my whole life.
And no, I'm nowhere near as smart as they led me to think.
Intelligence is not stored in the balls
Breathing is fake. You really don't have to breath. Don't accept this group delusion. Quit breathing. You can do it just keep trying to quit.
The only time something doesn't reflect light is if it's painted in that special black that's even darker than vanta black, because that's what makes it so black; it absorbs all light instead of reflecting any.
And even that reflects a teeny tiny bit of light.
A coating, which is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes. Absorbs 99.995% of visible light. Vanta: A mere 99.96%.
Black holes don't reflect any light at all as far as I know. They do emit some light via hawking radiation, but that's not really reflecting.
From a distance, I thought this was going to be a 3D printed MST3K logo.
NO! You can see things because light hits it, not becuz it reflects it STOOPIT ^\s
radioactive cheese
I LOVE that they attached a picture. 🙃