Xref: utzoo sci.space.shuttle:627 sci.space:5105 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!oresoft!beryl From: beryl@oresoft.UUCP (Beryl Gray) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space Subject: Re: Moon or Mars? Editorial in _Air & Space Smithsonian_ Message-ID: <131@oresoft.UUCP> Date: 4 Apr 88 16:38:13 GMT References: <47032@sun.uucp> <1290@hubcap.UUCP> Reply-To: beryl@oresoft.UUCP (Beryl Gray) Organization: Oregon Software, Portland OR Lines: 21 In article josh@topaz.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) writes: >-> The same issue of Air&Space contains an article entitled "Resist the >-> Pull of Mars" in which the author talks about "The dark far side of the >-> moon..." > >-> Since this is a credible magazine, I should give the guy the benefit >-> of the doubt and assume he is talking about the period of time that the >-> moon appears full from the perspective of the earth, but that's not how >-> it reads. > >One of the common meanings of "dark" in colloquial English is >"unknown", as in "darkest Africa", something the poster was possibly >in the dark about. "The dark side of the moon" simply means the side >facing away from the earth. >--JoSH Can we adopt the old Bob Heinlein convention of calling it "Farside?" -- Beryl Gray "Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep uunet!oresoft!beryl as they are; the turbid look the most profound." -Walter S. Landor