/sci/ - Science & Math

Tidal lock, bro

The moon does rotate. It just rotates slowly enough that the same side always faces the earth.

MAXIMUM TROLLING

>>1522962
Bullshit. What are the odds of that? I mean, seriously. For the moon to not rotate any at all with respect to the Earth is like a trillion billion to one.

I mean, it's not like the interaction between large rocky bodies locks their rotation rates or anything.

>my face when i realized that Mercury is tidal locked

>>1522966

Lmfao. Thats what it actually does.

Lol at your self belief. Even more lol that its wrong.

>>1522966

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Earth will never have a cool of a moon as Phobos
;_;

>>1522987
Goatse in space

>my face when I realized that the speed of light isn't real because photons have mass

>>1523039
How would light pressure work then?

>>1522966

Venus is tidal locked to the sun. It's a common occurrence.

Mercury isn't though. We've known that for years.

>>1523058
Venus isn't quite tidally locked. One venereal day is something like 250 earth days.

>>1522987

Bitches don't know about my bean shaped orbit!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne

>>1523072
>After many years, the Earth will have fallen so far behind that Cruithne will then actually be "catching up" on the Earth from "behind". When it eventually does catch up, Cruithne will make a series of annual close approaches to the Earth and gravitationally exchange orbital energy with Earth; this will alter Cruithne's orbit by a little over half a million kilometres (whilst Earth's orbit is altered by about 1.3 centimetres (0.51 in)) so that its period of revolution around the Sun will then become slightly more than a year.

>>1523072

>>Cruithne is in a normal elliptic orbit around the Sun.

>>1523065
>venereal
Is that a proper way of saying "belonging to Venus"?
Because if it is, I don't want my kids to ever become citizens of any Venus colony...

>>1523095
The classically correct form of the word should be "Venerean" or "Venerian" (cf. Latin: venereus, venerius "belonging to the goddess Venus"), but these forms have been used by only a few authors (e.g. Robert A. Heinlein). Scientists sometimes use the adjective "Cytherean" to describe Venus, from the goddess' epithet Cytherea. "Venusian" is used in preference to "Venerean" due to the latter's use in the term venereal disease.

It's a preference thing, I guess.

>Scientists sometimes use the adjective "Cytherean" to describe Venus, from the goddess' epithet Cytherea.

So that would explain the origins of the pornstar Cytherea's name whose is famous for squirting excessive amounts of fluid from her twat.

For a pornstar, that's quite a well researched name.

>>1522968
>mfw your information is outdated

>>1523157

Actually her name is due to the butterfly. Which is named after the aforementioned post.

Correlation does not mean causation.