/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9705200
Because some retard claimed he had done the experiment and that a thermometer in the moonlight was colder than one in the shade that night.

This, of course, did not account for any of the million uncontrolled variables that might make the temperature different, nor for the possibility that People Lie About Stupid Shit On The Internet. The "theory" behind it was that reflected light is a mirror image, or something like that, and since moonlight s reflected sunlight t would have the opposite effect of sunlight, which warms things up.

If anybody wants to give it a go, there is a lovely nearly-full moon tonight - I'd suggest using a magnifying glass to focus the light onto the thermometer bulb, a la frying an ant, to maximize whatever effect the light has so that the change is more obvious.