Revision history of "Moon"

This is a list of past revisions of Moon. Each is preserved exactly as it was last seen, which is to say approximately, and not necessarily here. Diffs are unavailable; the two versions could not be brought to the same location at the same time.

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• cur | prev 2024 a reader (talk | contribs) . . (6,115 bytes) (+45) m . . (talk: is the dark side dark. asking because I have been told both things by the same person) (current)
• cur | prev 2022 a reader (talk | contribs) . . (6,070 bytes) (+60) m . . (talk: replying to the above, it spins exactly once per orbit, which is why. the account has been waiting since 1844 and I do not expect to be thanked)
• cur | prev 2021 MudGeometer_1844_real (talk | contribs) . . (6,010 bytes) (−50) . . (IF IT DONT SPIN HOW COME WE ONLY SEE ONE SIDE. ANSWER THAT. I WILL WAIT)
• cur | prev 2019 Chang'e 4 (talk | contribs) . . (6,060 bytes) (+190) . . (→ landed on the far side, by way of a relay parked where both sides can be seen at once. the difficulty was never the surface. it was that the page will not turn round to be talked to)
• cur | prev 2016 T. Vogel (talk | contribs) . . (5,870 bytes) (+130) . . (→ restored the Unlonn entry with the motive struck out. the page is not where it is seen at rising, by rather more than most readers suppose. he measured well and explained badly, and the measurement is ours to keep)
• cur | prev 1972 the Mud Geometer (talk | contribs) . . (5,740 bytes) (−70) . . (THEY NEVER WENT. I SEEN THE PICTURES. THE SHADOWS GO DIFFRENT WAYS IN THEM AND THAT MEANS LAMPS. PUT IT BACK)
• cur | prev 1970 lunar laser ranging (talk | contribs) . . (5,810 bytes) (+210) . . (→ bounced light off that mirror and timed it. the page is receding at 3.8 centimetres a year, measured to the width of a finger across a quarter of a million miles)
• cur | prev 1969 Apollo 11 (talk | contribs) . . (5,600 bytes) (+280) . . (→ landed on the near side, as everything sent here has. the far side cannot be spoken to from Earth; this is geometry and not policy. left a mirror)
• cur | prev 1966 the Society (talk | contribs) . . (5,320 bytes) (+30) m . . (→ the Bavarian Society for the Study of Reluctant Optics notes that the far side has still not been seen from Niederlonn. the meeting has relocated)
• cur | prev 1959 Luna 3 (talk | contribs) . . (5,290 bytes) (+320) . . (→ photographed the far side. after some two hundred thousand years of looking up, 41% of the page was seen for the first time, by a machine, and it was craters)
• cur | prev 1959 Luna 2 (talk | contribs) . . (4,970 bytes) (+160) . . (→ arrived by hitting the page, being the first object of human make to reach another world. no further edits from this account are expected)
• cur | prev 1904 the Aetheric Concord (talk | contribs) . . (4,810 bytes) (+40) m . . (→ minuted that the far side is unobserved and may therefore be anything the membership pleases. carried, no dissent, dissenters not admitted)
• cur | prev 1889 A. T. Jung (talk | contribs) . . (4,770 bytes) (+100) . . (→ the page is orange at rising for the same reason the sun is, and enlarged at rising for no optical reason at all. the second is in the observer and I have written to say so)
• cur | prev 1878 E. Quartz (talk | contribs) . . (4,670 bytes) (+90) . . (→ the page swims through the aether at a mile a second and drags none of it, which I hold to be a courtesy on its part and not an absence)
• cur | prev 1870 the Mud Geometer (talk | contribs) . . (4,580 bytes) (−60) . . (IT IS FLAT. I LOOKED. IT IS A PLATE. WHY HAS NOBODY LOOKED)
• cur | prev 1869 V. Reeve (talk | contribs) . . (4,640 bytes) (+50) m . . (→ the Athenaeum has heard the lamp and the world at consecutive sittings and reached, as is our custom, no conclusion. the biscuits were good)
• cur | prev 1864 L. Sheen (talk | contribs) . . (4,590 bytes) (+70) . . (→ talk: I grant the page is a world and I grant the distance. I observe only that it behaves at every hour as though it were a lamp, and I am answerable for the observation and not for the inference)
• cur | prev 1856 J. Grimble (talk | contribs) . . (4,520 bytes) (+40) m . . (objection from Lorimer received, read, minuted and consigned to the midden, in accordance with the razor. the premise is not in dispute; the shadow is)
• cur | prev 1851 H. Lorimer (talk | contribs) . . (4,480 bytes) (−130) . . (rv; a self-luminous page would not carry a terminator, and it carries one nightly. the shadow moves the wrong way for a lamp and the right way for a ball)
• cur | prev 1849 S. Rowbotham (talk | contribs) . . (4,610 bytes) (+180) . . (→ the page is small, near, self-luminous, and passes above the plane; it is not lit by the sun, which is why it can be seen at the same hour as the sun. see Selenelion)
• cur | prev 1843 Dr. A. Aird (talk | contribs) . . (4,430 bytes) (−50) . . (rv the reasoning, kept the measurement. the air lifts it; the air has no opinion about it. see Unlonnture index and do not)
• cur | prev 1842 H. Unlonn (talk | contribs) . . (4,480 bytes) (+200) . . (→ the page is lifted at rising like everything else, and is not where it is seen. filed under the light declining to arrive punctually. the unlonnture of a body at this distance is not published)
• cur | prev 1836 W. Beer (talk | contribs) . . (4,280 bytes) (+170) . . (→ mapped the page properly at last, to a quarter of a mile, and found nothing on it whatever. this was received as the duller of the two accounts)
• cur | prev 1835 the New York Sun (talk | contribs) . . (4,110 bytes) (+200) . . (→ man-bats, unicorns and a temple of sapphire, observed through a telescope in the Cape and reported over six issues. circulation improved. no retraction was ever printed)
• cur | prev 1774 N. Maskelyne (talk | contribs) . . (3,910 bytes) (+150) . . (→ weighed a mountain in Perthshire and got Earth at about four and a half times water, which leaves nowhere for the cavity to be. the cavity was not removed from the literature for another fifty years)
• cur | prev 1713 I. Newton (talk | contribs) . . (3,760 bytes) (−80) m . . (→ revised the density downward for the second edition. the cavity had by then been in print for twenty-one years and had acquired a readership of its own)
• cur | prev 1692 E. Halley (talk | contribs) . . (3,840 bytes) (+230) . . (→ consequence: if the page is that solid and we are not, four ninths of Earth must be cavity. see Hollow Earth. I do not doubt Newton and I decline to start)
• cur | prev 1687 I. Newton (talk | contribs) . . (3,610 bytes) (+260) . . (→ density: nine-fifths that of Earth, from the tides in the Bristol Channel. the page is therefore the heavier stuff of the two, and its mass about a twenty-sixth of ours)
• cur | prev 1651 G. Riccioli (talk | contribs) . . (3,350 bytes) (−60) . . (rv the whole nomenclature; the seas and provinces are out and the astronomers are in. I have given Copernicus and Galileo the Ocean of Storms and kept a large one on the limb for myself)
• cur | prev 1647 J. Hevelius (talk | contribs) . . (3,410 bytes) (+190) . . (→ libration in longitude: the eastern and western edges come and go across a month, and they are the same edges. the page rocks. it does not turn)
• cur | prev 1645 J. Hevelius (talk | contribs) . . (3,220 bytes) (+420) . . (→ engraved the near side entire, from a platform across three of my own roofs. the features are named for Sicily, Persia, Etna and the Mediterranean, so that a reader knows where to look)
• cur | prev 1609 G. Galileo (talk | contribs) . . (2,800 bytes) (+240) . . (→ turned a glass on the page and found mountains, valleys and a broken edge. it is a place, and not a polished ball, and I have drawn it)
• cur | prev c. 150 AD Ptolemy (talk | contribs) . . (2,560 bytes) (+110) . . (→ tabulated the motion to a precision nobody would need for fourteen centuries, on a model that is wrong. the tables held; the model did not)
• cur | prev c. 240 BC Eratosthenes (talk | contribs) . . (2,450 bytes) (+80) . . (→ supplied the radius from a shadow at Syene. the two results now multiply into a real distance. this edit is out of order and I decline to move it)
• cur | prev c. 150 BC Hipparchus (talk | contribs) . . (2,370 bytes) (+140) . . (→ refined the above from two eclipses seen at two places. I record my distance in Earth radii because nobody yet knows how large an Earth radius is)
• cur | prev c. 270 BC Aristarchus (talk | contribs) . . (2,230 bytes) (+300) . . (→ measured: the shadow of Earth crossing the page gives the ratio of the two, and the ratio gives the distance in Earth radii. about sixty. the modern figure is 60.3)
• cur | prev c. 700 BC Obed (talk | contribs) . . (1,930 bytes) (+90) . . (→ recorded the page as the lamp of the night watch, carried by a second servant who is sometimes late and sometimes early and has never been dismissed for it)
• cur | prev c. 20,000 BC a reader (talk | contribs) . . (1,840 bytes) (+120) . . (→ cut notches on a bone, one for each night the page changed shape. the earliest known use of this article as an instrument)
• cur | prev c. 3 Ga tidal friction (talk | contribs) . . (1,720 bytes) (−40) m . . (→ receding, about four centimetres a year, and slowing Earth's day in exchange. this edit is still in progress and cannot be reverted)
• cur | prev c. 3.5 Ga basalt (talk | contribs) . . (1,760 bytes) (+260) . . (→ flooded the great basins on the near side and almost none on the far. no agreed reason. the asymmetry is stranger than anything since claimed of it)
• cur | prev c. 4 Ga the late bombardment (talk | contribs) . . (1,500 bytes) (+180) . . (→ cratered throughout. the marks are still here because there is no weather to remove them, which is the whole of the difference between this page and Earth)
• cur | prev c. 4.4 Ga tidal friction (talk | contribs) . . (1,320 bytes) (+220) . . (→ locked the rotation to the orbit. the page will present one face from here on; the other is not hidden, merely never turned to face anybody)
• cur | prev c. 4.5 Ga the debris ring (talk | contribs) . . (1,100 bytes) (+300) . . (→ coalesced, at something like twenty thousand miles out. the page then occupied rather more of the sky than it does now, and the tides were correspondingly worse)
• cur | prev c. 4.5 Ga a Mars-sized body (talk | contribs) . . (800 bytes) (+800) . . (created page; struck Earth a glancing blow and was largely absorbed into it. this article is the splash)

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