• @[email protected]
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    603 months ago

    I got upset about this as a child. Years of adults of telling me that the moon was a night only thing and it was all lies.

    • @[email protected]
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      223 months ago

      I also got way to upset by this as a child. I thought that the moon was falling behind and would miss traveling across the night sky.

      • LostXOR
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        213 months ago

        To be fair, that is pretty much exactly what it’s doing. It just falls behind so much eventually that it ends up where it started.

  • @[email protected]
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    113 months ago

    Though I’d seen it during the day all my life, I was in my twenties when my brain made the connection and I was deeply ashamed that it’d taken so long.

      • @Klear
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        33 months ago

        I have an extension that tells me exactly which xkcd it is without having to click the link. It’s not a browser extension, though. It’s in my brain.

  • @[email protected]
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    83 months ago

    The moon feels much more real to me when I see it in the daytime. At night it’s so bright I can’t really make out the details (my eyes aren’t the best), but during the day I see it very clearly and it looks more 3D, makes it feel much more like the big rock in space that it is.

  • @Donebrach
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    63 months ago

    It may be apocryphal, but supposedly one of my brother’s elementary school teachers was going on one day about how it’s impossible to see the moon during daylight and a kid pointed out the window and said “it’s right there.”

    Seems pretty stupid but knowing where I grew up I don’t disbelieve it happened.

  • @[email protected]
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    63 months ago

    I always hated those “spot what’s wrong with the picture” puzzles where they would mark the moon being out as something wrong.

  • @shoki
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    43 months ago

    I actually thought that it was this way for a long time because of minecraft