Stuff You Should Know - Is there a dark side of the moon?

Episode Date: July 29, 2014

Josh and Chuck explore the old notion that there's a dark side of the moon. There is, but it turns out it's not always the same side. And yes, there's a side we never see, but it's not always dark. Make sense? It will in this episode. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm Munga Shatikler and it turns out astrology is way more widespread than any of us want to believe. You can find it in Major League Baseball, International Banks, K-Pop groups, even the White House. But just when I thought I had a handle on this subject, something completely unbelievable happened to me and my whole view on astrology changed. Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, give me a few minutes because I think your ideas are about to change too.

Just a Skyline drive on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey and welcome to the podcast, I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, there's someone in our heads but it's not us. And there's Jerry over there, she's got her own self in her head, she's not a loony. Our band does that song. Oh yeah? Yeah, it's one of my favorites. It's a good one.

We do it in the basement, it's not like, actually we did it at one public show and I think after everyone's like, we shouldn't do that song now. Oh really? Yeah, I was like, man I love it. Yeah. Were you like, that was out of sight. I thought it was totally groovy. And like the audience didn't like it?

I think the rest of the band felt like it was, you know, there's a bunch of songs we do just in the basement for our own fun. And then there's, you know, the songs that we'll do in front of people twice a year. You guys do Yackety Sacks in the basement? I wish. Did you see Dolly Parton play that live at that huge music festival and she did a good job? Yeah, I was at Bonnaroo, right?

No, it was at the one from, was it Glastonbury out in the UK? Dolly Parton doing Yackety Sacks, playing the saxophone at Glastonbury, like who would have thought that would ever happen? She had the crowd eating out of the palm of her hand. Yeah, she's putting out a new album that she's calling her Gay Friendly Dance Album. Yeah, is it the name of the album or the name of the track is just a wee bit gay or something like that? I think that's one of, oh, I thought that's just how she described it, is that the name

of one of the songs? I don't know, it wasn't quote, but I couldn't tell if that was because it was a title or quote. Yeah. Well, she's got a huge following in the gay community and she's embraces it fully. Yes, she does. And there's always been rumors about her. Oh, I don't think those are correct.

Well, I mean, it doesn't mean there aren't rumors out there. She has a long, long-term husband. Yeah, she's been married for like 50 years, but I think the fact that he's like trying to find a picture of this guy, he's a total recluse. And she just says that's just the nature of our relationship. Yeah. Have you been to, it's like that Oprah thing. She has a really close girlfriend and everyone is like, oh, well, of course, Oprah and Gayle

are gay, because you can't be friends, lifelong friends with someone of the same sex. Right. Yeah. Have you been to Dollywood? I have not, still. You should go to Dollywood. There's a Dollypart museum that's part of Dollywood that's like worth the admission by itself. Can you just go to the museum?

There's no reason to just go to the museum, but yeah, you could. I mean, like it's worth going just for the museum, but then when you exit the museum, you've got all the rest of Dollywood to go hang out at, which is substantial. Like she's updated it and there's roller coasters, which I don't ride. You don't ride roller coasters at all? No. You mean I went with some friends and like everybody else is riding roller coasters and we were just like, that's okay.

Have you never ridden roller coasters? I've ridden roller coasters before, but I've got another point in my life where I'm like, I don't feel like being terrified out of my mind right now. Okay. So that's the reason. Yeah. All right. Let's bang and start.

Yeah. Who'd have thought Dolly Parton would make an appearance in this one? Dolly Parton. So there, Chuck, we're talking about the dark side of the moon. Yes. And it turns out there is such thing as the dark side of the moon, but it's just misused in the popular vernacular. Yeah.

The idea of the dark side of the moon is that there's another side of the moon that we never see and it's dark. Yeah. So there exposed to the cold chill of space and the dark side of the moon is the side of the moon we never see. Yeah. The one that faces opposite our purview. Right.

There is a side of the moon that we don't see. Right? Yeah. We're going to go ahead and call it the far side of the moon. Yes. And I think that song would be equally as cool. I was thinking about it. If it was.

I'll see you on the far side of the moon. Yeah. It would be a little more psychedelic if you ask me. Yeah. Because of the whole far out thing. I don't know. It resonated. Far out.

In fact, in the basement, I'm going to start singing that. Are you going to adapt it? Yeah. Okay. There you go. Just not out. Never. Again.

So there is a far side of the moon. There is a side of the moon that we don't see. People are correct in assuming that. But and there is a dark side of the moon and sometimes the dark side of the moon and the far side of the moon are one and the same, but sometimes they're not. Yeah. It gets a little confusing, but everything I just said is true. Yeah.

And it's our job to get you to wrap your heads around this like we had to. Yeah. Because it's extraordinarily confusing. It's almost like why couldn't just the popular conception be correct? Because this is kind of difficult until you wrap your head around it and then it's easy. Yeah. Because it is hard at first, everybody, so buckle in, tie your shoes on tight. Yeah.

Maybe pack a granola bar and let's get down to this. All right. So I guess we can start by saying that the moon is not like the sun. It doesn't generate that warm, lovely glow itself that you see. I think most people know at this point that that is reflection from the sun. Yeah. And the moon is really big and that's why it looks super bright. It's not really very reflective, but it's large.

It is. So on a dark, dark night, a full moon looks really super bright because it's big. Yeah. And that's from sunshine, sun shining on the moon. That's what makes the moon glow to us. There's also something called earth shine. And when there's no sunshine hitting the moon as far as we can see, the earth is still reflecting light on it.

And they've recently found out that the moon, if you can somehow, and they figured out how to using radio telescopes, subtract any kind of sunlight interference and just isolate the earth shine. If you could just see that, then what you would be seeing is a kind of dark turquoise cobalt blue moon. Yeah. So technically the dark side of the moon is turquoise. Yes.

And they have figured that out for the first time. Was it just this year, right? It was published. Yeah. So that's exciting. New news because they've tried for a long time. That's right. But it took some smart people and people used to be dumb.

Yes. So there is a side of the moon, like we said, that we just don't see. And you would think, well, that's because the moon orbits the earth, right? Which it does. It does. And so if the moon is just sitting there stationary, orbiting around the earth, of course, we're going to see the same side all the time. That's a fallacy.

That's right. So in fact, if the moon orbited the earth and didn't rotate around its own axis, right, we would see all sides of the moon at some point during that lunar orbit, which we call a month. Sure. And you can test this by just getting a tennis ball and keeping it still and rotating it around your hand. Yep.

And pretend your hand is earth. And you would see at some point the earth would see all sides of that tennis ball. That's right. And that's because the moon rotates on its own axis at the same rate that it rotates around in orbit. And so now if you take that tennis ball and, well, you'd have to be pretty precise to spin it. But if you could spin it at the same rate that you're going around, you would notice, and

there's a handy animation on this article on HowStuffWorks.com. I thought it was a little fast. Well, I did too, actually. I think they need to go in and slow that thing down a little bit. It's handy and fast. Yeah. You would notice that if it's spinning on its own axis at the same rate that it's spinning in orbit, then you're going to see that same side.

Right. And it's kind of, it seems like a miracle, but it's not. It's a mind-boggling, colossal, cosmological coincidence. No, it's not coincidence. Okay. Well, then I'm hoping you can explain this to me. Because Chuck, what you've just said, I think it bears repeating. The moon's orbit around Earth lasts 29.5 days.

That's right. The moon also rotates on its axis. That rotation, you know, the Earth rotates on its axis, that lasts about 24 hours. We call that a day. The moon rotates on its axis, so it has a day too. But its day lasts 29.5 days. So the moon's rotation on its own axis and its orbit around Earth are the same. Yes.

Which is why, no matter where you are on Earth, you can't see anything but the near side of the moon. Because even though it's rotating on its axis, it's revolving in orbit at the same speed, at the same rate around the Earth, so you will never see anything but the near side. Should we say this a third time? This was what got me the most. That's why I'm saying it again, like this is mind-boggling to me. So there's a day side of the moon and a night side of the moon, just like there is on Earth.

If you built a little moon, lunar cabin, which would be great, by the way, you would see a sunrise and a sunset. I don't know if it would look exactly the same. Well it would take a month. It would be a very slow sunrise and a very slow sunset because what to us is a month, the lunar month, which involves the four phases of the moon, the waxing, the waning, the gibbous, the crescent, the full, the new, all that jazz. The super.

Yeah. That to the moon is a day. So our whole concept of there being a far side of the moon, a dark side of the moon, and phases of the moon, to the moon, it's just like, hey man, this is just a day to me. I'm just the moon reflecting light. It's just like over the course of 24 hours on Earth, different parts of the Earth are exposed to the sunlight. Over the course of 29.5 days, thanks to the rotation of the moon, different parts of the

moon are exposed to sunlight. So that far side of the moon that we never see because of the rotation and the orbit being the same for the moon, still gets bathed in sunlight for two weeks out of the year. Yeah and sometimes we're seeing the night side, sometimes we're seeing the day side. It just depends on when it happens to fall during that lunar day. Right. It's not the same thing as our day. Yep.

It is confusing. That's why I said it twice. But not a third time. Well I guess we should explain a little something about gravity. And we did cover this, we did something on the tides, right? Tidal bulge? Yeah. Is that a video?

At least once we've discussed it. I know we've done it at some point. The reason that everything is in synchronicity like that is because of gravity. It's because Earth is exerting gravitational pull on the moon and it's locked it in with us. But the moon's doing the same thing to us and it's also getting further away from us about an inch and a half a year, I think 1.48 inches per year. And that's what causes tidal bulge.

The gravitational force on us causes the tidal bulge on the near side when the moon has the greatest pull so water is going to be pulled toward the moon and inertia is overcome by gravity and on the far side the opposite is true but they're both bulges. When it's at its nearest point in orbit and it's furthest point in orbit, right? So if the moon is moving further away from us by 1.48 inches per year that means millions and billions of years from now things are going to be completely different. Yeah, like a billion years ago a day on Earth lasted 18 hours and I think the month was 20 days long.

And then now thanks to gravity and the effect of the moon on Earth and vice versa the Earth's rotation is slowing and eventually I think in a billion or two years the day is expected to be about 40 current Earth days long. Yeah, it says 40 days. So that's interesting. I've never thought about that in terms of the evolution of mankind. Not many people, not doing a whole lot, not a lot going on short days. Now everyone's populating the planet longer days and longer days.

It's all coincidental I'm sure. Yeah, I wonder what impact it would have on our sleep cycle if we still have one a billion years from now. Yeah. All right, so coming up in just a second we're going to talk about the phases of the moon because there's some misconceptions about that too. I'm Mangesh Atikular and to be honest I don't believe in astrology but from the moment I was born it's been a part of my life.

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Listen to the most dramatic podcast ever with Chris Harrison on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So Chuck, you had promised everyone that we would talk about the phases of the moon. I think that's called a tease. I think you should deliver on it. Oh yeah? Yeah. Well, I think, well, Strickland, Jonathan Strickland of Tech Stuff wrote this article, by the

way, that we're working from. And there are some misconceptions about the phases of the moon. He thinks. One is that a new moon occurs when the earth is blocking light from the sun. And if you're just a dumb human like me and you look up and see a new moon, that's sort of what it looks like. It looks like the earth is blocking it. The sun, because you can almost see the shadow, like clearly that's what's going on, right?

But it's not true. No. Because the moon is actually in between the earth and the sun at that point, which makes that impossible. When the moon is full, the earth is between the sun and the moon, right? You're saying? Well, no, no, no. I was saying during a new moon.

The moon is between the sun and the earth. Yeah, exactly. But for a full moon, the earth is between the sun and the moon. So both of them are kind of counterintuitive, but they make sense when you remember that the whole reason the moon glows is because of its exposure to sunlight, right? So if the moon, if we see the side that's being exposed to sunlight, that means that the earth is between the sun and the moon. That's right.

Right? Because that's the only way we could see that part exposed to sunlight. But if the moon's between the sun and the earth and the side that's being exposed to sunlight is the opposite side of the moon, the far side of the moon, so of course we couldn't see that. So that's what the new moon is. Yeah. And Jonathan, he broke it down in another pretty easy way to understand.

Like if you're sitting in a room and there's only a single light source, like a spotlight, let's say, and someone walks in between the light and you, you're going to see a silhouette of them, but you're not going to be able to see their detail. Right. But if you could somehow get behind them, you would see that their back is bathed in that light. Exactly. Now if they walk behind you, you're both facing the sunlight.

So if you can just kind of make your eye travel around the side of your head to the back and poke out through your hair there, you would see that that person is a full moon. That's right. And the initial one, when they are between you and you see their silhouette, that is the new moon. Right. So it makes sense when you think about it that way, I think. It does.

Or if you look at this illustration, that's helpful too. It definitely is. Like this is, lunar phases is definitely one where it's like, just look at a picture. Yeah. It's so much easier to see. The irony of this whole thing is, is that thanks to the phases of the moon, this lunar day, that the dark side of the moon is sometimes the side that we can see. Yeah.

That's the one that blows my mind a bit. You know, it's during a new moon. Like we're still seeing the near side of the moon. That's all we'll ever see. Right. The side that has the man in the moon or the rabbit making mochi in the moon. What's that? That's a Japanese thing.

Oh yeah. It's like their version of the man in the moon. That's a rabbit making mochi, which is like sweet sticky rice treats. And is it something that they see in the moon? Yeah. And what you're seeing are the lunar seas, like the Sea of Tranquility, all that stuff. And with the, well I guess with the advent of the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft, that was the first time we ever saw the far side of the moon.

And that was, I think, in 1959. Isn't that crazy, so that long ago we were that advanced? Yeah. It is. Yeah. And if you're into that, you should go listen to our How the Space Race Work episode. That was a good one. Yeah.

Russia was advanced too. But these photos sent back from the Soviets showed that the far side of the moon didn't look anything like the near side of the moon that we see. Right. It was all just little pockmark craters. There weren't any like Sea of Tranquility or anything like that. And for a long time it posed this riddle called the Lunar Far Side Highlands Problem. Why was the far side of the moon so different from the near side?

So they finally recently think that they came up with the riddle, like recently, like this year. Oh wow. Or the answer to the riddle. Yeah. They came up with the riddle after 1959. Right. But the reason being that the side of the moon, the near side, that's closest to us, has been

locked, what's called tidally locked. It's the whole reason that we have this whole, why this whole podcast is going on because the moon and the earth are locked into orbit, right? And because they affect one another through gravity, the side that's closest to earth was subject to earth's gravity more than the other side. So as the moon cooled and the earth was cooling, but was still super hot, it was heating the side of the moon that was closest to us, right? Yeah, that makes sense.

On the far side, as the moon cooled, the crust was thicker and sturdier. On the near side, the crust was a little thinner. So as the moon was still cooling, it got blasted with asteroids and meteorites and all that jazz. Yeah. And on the side that's closest to us, the thinner crust side, lava flowed up from those meteor impacts and formed things like the Sea of Tranquility. On the other side, the crust was thicker, so no lava flowed up from it.

And that's what they have to explain it. I wonder if there's any value in exploring the far side of the moon, or if that would just make a great movie. I mean, they're talking about doing that. I don't know what the value is, though. Yeah. And with the way that funding is, we've talked about with NASA's going, I doubt if it's a priority.

Yeah. But that would make a good movie because one creepy thing about it, it made me think of space movies and such is that you lose radio contact on the far side of the moon. So, in the movie version, obviously, you would have to sign off and go dark for a period of time. Yeah. And that's when the event horizon occurs. What was the event horizon?

That's like a movie? No, I just mean like, yeah. Oh, gosh. Not the real event horizon. Sam Neil goes crazy. Yeah, something happens creepy on that other side, right? Was that in that movie, Moon, with Sam Rockwell? What, the far side of the moon?

Yeah. I think that was the movie where the guy's like racing to get out of the nightfall on the moon because like the sunrise. I think that was Moon. Okay. But we'll hear about it if it's not. I like that movie. That was a good one.

Fantastic. Yeah. I think David Bowie's son directed that. Yeah, he did. Yeah. Duncan Bowie. Is that his name? Well, it's Duncan something.

Oh, he took, because David Bowie's not even his real name, probably. No, I don't think so. It's Ziggy Stardust. Right. Duncan Stardust is his name. And he's from the moon. You got anything else? I do.

I have one more thing. Oh, good. It turns out that we can see more than just the near side of the moon sometimes. All right. How's that? Well, because the orbit of the moon around the earth isn't a perfect circle, it's elliptical. When it's furthest away, we can see an extra eight degrees of the eastern side. And when it's, no, when it's closest to us, I'm sorry.

And then when it's further away, we can see an extra about eight degrees of the western side. Gotcha. And I think we didn't mention, we said that if you stop that tennis ball, we would see all sides of the moon. But even if it fell out of sync a little bit and slowed down or sped up a little bit, we would see portions of the moon that we've never seen before. Exactly.

So this is why I'm like, you don't find it incredibly amazing that we're alive at a point in time when the moon's rotational spin and its orbit around earth are completely the same. Oh, who said that? Wasn't amazing. You don't think it's a coincidence? I don't. I think that's why.

I think if that weren't true, then there wouldn't be earth as we know it, right? Okay. So you subscribe to the anthropic principle. What's that? Well, it basically says that things are the way they are because we're here to observe them. And if they weren't the way that they are, then we wouldn't be, it wouldn't be possible for us to be here to observe them.

Yeah, I think I never heard of that, but I think that makes a lot of sense to me. Yeah. What about you? I don't know. It kind of smacks of like intelligent, intelligent design a little bit, you know? Because it's basically saying like the idea is that the universe is fine tuned to support life. But if we, if that's the case, like why do we appear to be the only one out there?

Oh, I don't think necessarily fine tuned. I think just lucky that things locked into support life. And that's another interpretation of it too. Yeah. Should we wake Jerry up and ask her? Jerry. She has the answer. I do recommend people go to the article.

The article on the website is called. What and where is the dark side of the moon? Yeah, because there is a very handy phases of the moon, uh, graphic and a super fast animation. It's so fast. You're like, wait, I think I got it. Wait, no. You know, and it's kind of small and you can't really see that it's spinning.

So I'm going to retract my statement that it's super handy. It kind of stinks. Okay. Kind of stinky vice animation. But I bet you there's a YouTube out there that shows it in better colored, high graphic detail. Yes. And it slows it down a little.

There's a YouTube out there. Yeah. That sounds like an old man. I do have one more thing too. Oh, great. We were talking about in billions of years, um, that the, uh, the, the earth and the moon will have such an effect on, on one another. Yeah.

That the Earth's day will last 40 current Earth days. Yes. And that will also be the exact amount of time the moon's orbit. So the lunar phase and the Earth day in a few billion years will be one in the same 40 days. And then apparently after that, it's not going to change much. So it's, they're both going towards some sort of equilibrium, right? Sounds like it.

Well, because the Earth day will be in lockstep with the lunar cycle. At that point, the shoe will be on the other foot. And when you're on the moon, you will only ever be able to see one side of the earth. The United States side. Who knows? Well, there won't be a United States at that point. You don't know that. And three billion years.

Yes. And that is, there will be no mankind. Don't kid yourself. It's quite possible. We have to talk about the great filter sometime. I don't even know what that is. You're going to love it. Is it a full podcast or is it a, definitely.

Okay. Well, I think we have like a few we could break out of that one. I think you just threw down the gauntlet. It did. That was a gauntlet. So Chuck, we just did that. Yeah. I'm pretty happy with it.

I always feel lost, lost in space. Like I'm hanging on by the skin of my teeth when we do these things. Well, you did great. Thanks. But we always hear like really good feedback from astronomers. It turns out they're very much non-jerky. No. They're right in.

Very forgiving. Very forgiving and very helpful. Yes. Because I think they really want other people to understand. And they're not like. Including us. Look how much we know that you don't know. They're like, look how much you could know.

Right. They're not like proctologists. Those jerks. Those jerks are soccer fans. All right. So Chuck, we are going to do a listener mail as usual, but it'll be right after this message break. Stuff we should know.

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It's very intuitive. There's no need to learn how to use code. No. And in case you find yourself in a bit of a pickle, maybe even a bind. They have 24 seven customer support so you can live chat with them 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Yeah. All that stuff is great.

But what I love about it is it's beautiful. The designs are great. It's going to look clean. It's going to look professional. Everyone's going to be tricked into thinking you're like a master coder web designer. Yeah. And if you want to sell stuff and make some monies, all plans have commerce options from hosting an entire store to accepting donations for your personal blog.

Plus, Chuck, you can get the whole thing risk-free now. Wow. That sounds pretty great. Risk-free on your laptop, on your mobile device, it's going to look great on your tablet. That sounds like an all-in-one solution to me. That's right. Like I said, risk-free. You can try Squarespace if you go to squarespace.com slash stuff for your 14-day trial with no

credit card necessary. If you like the product, it costs as low as $8 a month and includes a free domain name if you sign up for a year. That's right. So just use our offer code STUFF to get that 10% off your first purchase. Okay, so we're back. If you want to know more about the moon, you can type in Dark Side of the Moon or Moon or whatever in the search bar at HowStuffWorks.com and it'll bring up this article and others.

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Thanks Ethan and thanks to your mom too for letting us read your very spectacular listener mail. Thanks for the correction too. Absolutely. We were so dumb. Not magnetism, electromagnetism. And I'm taking his word. Well, if you're a cute kid and you want to correct us or just tell us hi or whatever,

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