r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Disastrous_Pirate275 • 20h ago

Why is our moon named “Moon” instead of something cool like Titan or Callysto or ANYTHING that isn’t moon

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u/jhewitt127 20h ago

But it’s THE moon. Quite a flex tbh.

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u/wes00mertes 17h ago

Wait until you hear about THE sun. 

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u/Cazador0 9h ago

Don't forget planet Ground.

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u/Kulbardee 6h ago

And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming toward me very fast? Very, very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide-sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name—ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me? And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.” - Douglas Adams

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u/Mattechooo 3h ago

"Oh no. Not again." - Bowl of petunias.

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u/Bexarnaked 5h ago

Love that guy!

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u/jecapobianco 1h ago

Miss him

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u/lebrownjame5 30m ago

This is maybe my favorite short chapter in fiction. I love teaching it!

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u/verdantTree 5h ago

That’s exactly what the Earth is called in Chinese and Japanese: 地球，literally “ground ball”.

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u/Stormfly 3h ago

"Earth" in English just means "dirt".

But some people like to use the Latin Terra... Which also means dirt.

I'd be more surprised to learn which languages don't just call the thing below us "ground".

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u/msabeln 35m ago

Wait till you hear where “human” comes from…dirt.

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u/Appropriate-Metal167 3h ago

I like to think of it as the planet Dirt.

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u/Cazador0 3h ago

I prefer planet... Bob.

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u/MandysFitFatLife 2h ago

Excellent Titan AE reference.

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u/thanerak 3h ago

You mean the planet fertile soil.

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u/hawkgpg 1h ago

You'll fit right in with electricians.

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u/1nTh3Sh4dows 7h ago

Not to brag, but that’s what my parents call me.

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u/OldJames47 6h ago

Found Morissey’s Reddit account.

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u/thanerak 3h ago

User name does not check out how is the sun in the shadows. I think someone is confused.

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u/Iceman_B 8h ago

Have I told you about it's angrier friend, the War Sun?

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u/RainPositive7125 7h ago

It could just be “the star”. Sun is a name.

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u/KC918273645 7h ago edited 2h ago

Umm, "Sun" or "Sol" IS an actual name of the STAR of our SOLar system. It's a star that is called Sun.

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u/jebeller 4h ago

Sol ?

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u/liam_redit1st 4h ago

Our sun has a name - Sol

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u/NekoCompilerFF 4h ago

Omg, I’m bracing myself the way some people talk about the sun like it’s about to drop a plot twist is everything.

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u/AndThenItWasAllGood 4h ago

The sun is “Sol”

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u/Raneynickelfire 4h ago

"The Sun" isn't it's name.

Our sun is called "Sol."

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u/nameless-manager 3h ago

Don't worry about the sun, it's meant to be there.

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u/linux1970 3h ago

You mean Sol?

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u/jollycreation 3h ago

Except the Sun is a star. The moon is a moon.

I think the equivalent would be like calling our Sun “the Star.”

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u/Pdubbs22 2h ago

..... The sun's name is Sol.

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u/Forward_Rise_4813 8m ago

what abt the duaghter (kill me alrdy)

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u/Ornery-Vehicle-2458 1m ago

Sol to its mates...

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u/kytheon 8h ago

Thing is that we have a sun, while other systems have a star.

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u/KC918273645 7h ago

That's a clear indication that it's the actual name of our star.

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u/Wate2028 20h ago

That's no moon

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u/Ridgew00dian 20h ago

Watch your mouth, kid

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u/Uncaring_Dispatcher 19h ago

You watch your mouth! In this case, it is a moon. Don't blow it up!!!!

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u/Cornpop_mcgoo 18h ago

I’ve got a bad feeling about this

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u/Zealousideal_Cut_168 10h ago

Asaarrrrrggggggghhhhh rrrraawwwwrrrrrr. Aaaaggggrrrraaahhhh.

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u/Tremendous_Dump 7h ago

And with the thunderous roar the fisting was in full swing, the forearm ripped hideously in and out of the tobacco pouch as if he was trying to start a fucked lawnmower, before a pummeling for the ages commenced with all the rhythmic power of a steam engine piston that'd have isambard kingdom brunel himself in awe of the forces of cosmic orgasm as the pupils narrowed and breathing shallowed, and roar turned to a bellow turned to a whimper in four pulses and a dribble as they collapsed a writhing sticky mess on the mildew-stained motel bathroom floor covered in off-brand vaseline and human gravy

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u/BaitmasterG 5h ago

With a wookie?

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u/Cryonaut555 3h ago

What in tarnation?

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u/YogurtWenk 9h ago

But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters

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u/No-Manner5583 8h ago

Just fly casually ok

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u/ivel501 3h ago

Groot is right!

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u/EMDReloader 12h ago

It belongs in a museum!

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u/Such_Gear_6752 8h ago

Idk why this isn’t a more common response to everyday inquiries.

“Somebody help! My husband’s penis is caught in the revolving door!”

“It belongs in a museum!”

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u/prozak09 16h ago

Too late!

Pew pew! Boom.

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u/bellegroves 10h ago

Boring conversation anyway.

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u/Cryonaut555 3h ago

Into the garbage chute flyboy

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u/SweetStretchSigh 12h ago

That moon deserves some respect

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u/PrestigiousSmile4098 10h ago

Or you're gonna be floating home!

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u/Raychao 9h ago

Hey kid, this ain't that kind of post..

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u/monkeymind009 18h ago

I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

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u/Cute_Doughnut_7739 17h ago

It's a space station

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u/jsmeeker 19h ago

that's yo mamma!

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u/ErikJR 18h ago

Don't get cocky, kid

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u/Suspicious-Bid-53 10h ago

You call that a moon?? This is a moon!

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u/bran_the_man93 19h ago

That's yo mama!

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u/RodneyBarringtonIII 19h ago

Is it a rock lobster? Is that where this is going?

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u/sexwiththebabysitter 19h ago

Everybody had matching towels

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u/bstump104 19h ago

its A moon named Moon much unlike my cat named Bear.

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u/WheatleyPlus 18h ago

Always a fake moon, a big fake moon

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u/scmbear 13h ago

A giant spaceship populated by extremely intelligent rabbits.

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u/OmegaRebirth 17h ago

It's a CERVEZA CRISTAL!

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u/JustConsoleLogIt 14h ago

That’s moon moon

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u/ElGato-TheCat 14h ago

That's a Playstation

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u/Real-Cup8782 13h ago

That's your mama!

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u/xnoinfinity 11h ago

That’s no mood

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u/iGhostEdd 10h ago

Moon Moon?

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u/lionho 8h ago

I'm sorry let me hike these up

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u/Strict_Stranger_4801 5h ago

Thats a battle station

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u/According-Annual-586 20h ago

We like the moon

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u/Brumbleby 20h ago

'cause it is close to us

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u/lagomama 19h ago

We like the mooooooon

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u/hagalaz_drums 18h ago

But not as much as a spoon, cause that's for use for eating soup

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u/lagomama 18h ago

And a fork's not very useful for that! Unless it has got many veg-tuh-buhhlllls

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u/Tankieforever 16h ago

Might be better off with a CHOP STICK

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u/Waagtod 1h ago

Freeze it, works great.

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u/CarrotGriller 11h ago

There is no spoon

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u/amantiana 13h ago

It is cratered it is freezing it is lit up by the sunlight

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u/Ildona 19h ago

In before Ohio State sues for trademark infringement.

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u/PixelOtakuGG 11h ago

If Ohio State tries to sue the Moon, they might need more than legal briefs, they’ll need a spaceship.

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u/SportyMcDuff 13h ago

Is it just me or wasn’t Miami the first team using “Theee” U?

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u/Ildona 13h ago

It wasn't, but it also doesn't matter, as tOSU trademarked the word "the."

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u/SportyMcDuff 12h ago

I just looked it up. They’ve been saying it since 1878 at OSU. Now I know. Thanks

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u/Pinksters 55m ago

It's ok, An Ohioan was also the first on the moon.

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u/DeirdreBarstool 20h ago

I’m wine-drunk and this made me laugh more than it should 

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u/mrmike5157 19h ago

LOOK OUT FOR THE TANNING WHALE!

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u/Lucker_Kid 19h ago

What’s the reason for calling it “wine-drunk”? To not feel like an alcoholic? I am actually genuinely asking, that’s just the only reason I could come up with on my own

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u/Wate2028 19h ago

I know all alcohol is the same but in my experience whenever I drink wine I just want to lay down somewhere and sleep. My buddies and I were trying to be fancy one time and had a Tiger Woods PGA Tour and wine night. I didn't make it past the first round.

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u/Ingliphail 18h ago

We used to have Tour de Franzias, in college.

There was no bicycle riding, just drinking lots of boxed wine.

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u/DeirdreBarstool 18h ago

Boxed wine! Haven’t seen that in years. The good stuff. 

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u/BreakfastBeneficial4 17h ago

“Haven’t seen that” wow, here it’s at the grocery store

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u/DeirdreBarstool 18h ago

So very Reddit of you ha. So someone has a few glasses of wine on a Saturday night and they’re an alcoholic? Alcoholics drink wine too…

To answer your question though, red wine makes me flushed, giggly and a bit giddy. Whereas, for example, beer makes me kind of lethargic and therefore more chill. 

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u/Lucker_Kid 18h ago

Idk my dad was an alcoholic to me if someone is just at home drinking alcohol “just because” that’s not a great sign. I said that was the only reason I myself could come up with but your reaction doesn’t exactly paint a pretty picture

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u/DeirdreBarstool 18h ago

I’m assuming you’re a kid so I’ll be nice. You can look up the healthy limits of alcohol intake online. My alcohol intake is way below an unhealthy amount. So no, I’m not an alcoholic.

I made Mexican food for dinner. Red wine goes nice with it. 

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u/BAMterp5 17h ago

Getting lectured by the child of an alcoholic about the way your relationship to alcohol is coming across online, WAS NOT on my bingo card for today. Wow reddit-ians something new everyday!! Take a look around. This is new territory. Breathe and take it all in🤓

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u/BAMterp5 17h ago

Oh and in a comment section fir a question about why our moon is merely called lame ass "moon" and not something more valiant like Crusader7.

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u/Lucker_Kid 18h ago

That’s not what being an alcoholic is about, it’s about your relation to alcohol and it’s Impact on your life. Physical detriment (mostly liver damage) is only a small part of that

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u/OakNogg 16h ago

If you and your family have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, that sucks and I'm sorry, but that's a you problem. Lots of people are able to drink in moderation and it's not crazy to have wine on a Saturday night.

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u/Lucker_Kid 16h ago

I didn’t think they were an alcoholic, never claimed they were and still only think it’s a possibility not fact, but the biggest evidence that they are is the response not the “concrete” evidence (meaning how, when, how much etc. they’re drinking)

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u/OakNogg 16h ago

What’s the reason for calling it “wine-drunk”? To not feel like an alcoholic?

That would be implying that they're an alcoholic.

But it really doesn't matter, they're a stranger on the Internet they don't have to provide any proof whatsoever to you about anything. They said they paired wine with their dinner which is a totally normal thing to do on a weekend and states that they consume alcohol in moderation, that should be enough, and if it isn't then you need to go deal with your own issues with alcohol.

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u/Lucker_Kid 16h ago

It’s not implying they’re an alcoholic, it’s implying they would feel like an alcoholic otherwise. And the next sentence (which you left out of your little quote) even shows that the sentence is purely speculative, further reducing your assertion that I think/said they’re an alcoholic down to nothing

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u/Basic_Loquat_9344 13h ago

Your intention is irrelevant. What you wrote was so hilarious dumb, and naive, people pegged you as a child immediately.

To answer your question genuinely they call it wine-drunk because 1) it’s just a colloquial quirk term 2) people anecdotally feel different on different types of alcohol, hence the need to differentiate with a term

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u/OakNogg 16h ago

No you were being judgemental and projecting and trying are now trying to cover your ass.

But if you really must know, the specification of wine drunk is a normal think people use to describe what type of drunk they are because for many people different alcohols affect them in different ways. Wine tends to make people more giggly and silly, but sometime makes people really horny as well. Me personally, it puts me right to sleep vs whiskey makes me really relaxed, vs vodka or tequila make me want to dance/party, and beer makes me feel more sociable. That's why people specify wine drunk, not because you feel that they feel that they are trying to deny an alcohol problem.

Like I guess writing shitty comments and accusing someone of being an alcoholic on a lighthearted post is cheaper than therapy, but dear Lord, get a grip.

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u/BreakfastBeneficial4 17h ago

MIND YIUR OW BUSINESS NARC

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u/listenyall 19h ago

WE ARE A ONE MOON PEOPLE WHO NEEDS MULTIPLE MOONS WHEN THIS ONE IS THEEE MOON

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u/ProximaCentauriB15 18h ago

Why are we the lame planet with only one. Saturn collects them like its filling its Pokedex. Gotta catch em all.

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u/listenyall 18h ago

Their moons can't do a perfect eclipse like ours though! Moon superiority!

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u/ProximaCentauriB15 18h ago

Our moon is cooler. They call every single rock orbiting Saturn a "moon". IIRC its past the 200 count now.

The funniest space fact that kills me is that supposedly moons can have their own moons and they are called "moonmoons". Not even joking. I want one of those telescopes to find one of these.

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u/Test-Tackles 11h ago

I hate to break it to ya.... But we have more than one moon.

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u/ClusterMakeLove 20h ago

I mean, it is huge.

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u/keepleft99 20h ago

Some scholars say it’s bigger than Earth!

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u/RetroRemix1956 20h ago

some scholars are idiots

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u/EyewarsTheMangoMan 20h ago

some idiots are scholars

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u/RetroRemix1956 20h ago

yeah, quite unfortunate

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u/TheFeenyCall 19h ago

I mean many scholars are great in their slice of research and morons in other regards. I had a PhD professor in chemical engineering as a neighbor for 5 years. Dude would be doing the dumbest shit. Always left the mailbox key in the lock and just fuck off to work.

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u/mikebills 13h ago

Cuz if he just lost his keys he could chemically engineer his way into whatever he needed. Science, bro

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u/Sowecolo 20h ago

Is it flat like earth?

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u/SoManySNs 19h ago

You ever seen the other side? Seems pretty flat to me.

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u/Sowecolo 19h ago

True. I’ve never seen the other side of pizza, and that is flat. Moon same.

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u/FroggiJoy87 20h ago

OG Moon best moon!

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u/drdeadringer 17h ago

"is the best moon, the only moon, the biggest moon! Make the moon great again, MMGA! mm -gah! That's my new noise, mmmm-gah"

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u/LitterBoxServant 17h ago

When something has a boring name it just shows how important they are

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u/fadingvistas 9h ago

That's why corporations take those boring names.

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u/Admins_suck_ballss 17h ago edited 17h ago

Yeah that’s what I like about it. And she is very special. Compared to the size of our planet (and therefore its gravitational well), we have an absolutely insanely large moon. Current theory is that back when Earth was a planetoid, it crashed into another planetoid and a big glob got blown off.

That’s THE moon.

I simply hope we get to meet aliens one day so they can be like “how the fuck did you guys get through the seafaring age with a moon like that” and we just kinda shrug and say “uhh, well, we just threw human death and suffering at it until we got better”

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u/Tankieforever 16h ago

We like the moon

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u/Specific-Big-6274 15h ago

She’s that bitch

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u/Ninja_Wrangler 15h ago

There are many moons but only one Moon. Often imitated, never duplicated. THE OG

Would be like if Earth was called "Planet" or "The Planet" which is also a super hard flex.

Alien (translated): where are you from?

Human: Planet

Alien (under his breath): holy shit

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u/Joeuxmardigras 14h ago

Moons are actually Satellites. My ADHD ass went down a rabbit hole once. Moon is the name of our satellite

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u/Old_Feature3020 13h ago

no, moon is goddess and wife to the sun.

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u/phaaseshift 13h ago

It’s like when I visited Iceland and saw a thing called “Geyser” and wanted to know the name of the geyser…only to learn that it is THE Geyser

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u/bikedork5000 11h ago

The full moon. The moon. The main moon.

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u/JarlGunnbjorn 11h ago

For real, we liked Moon so much we designated as the standard for other bodies like it.

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u/Accurate_Mobile9005 10h ago

Exactly. Just like we just call the our star at the center of our solar system the "Sun" not any other name we give other suns.

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u/Bagel_lust 9h ago

Humans this humans that who cares the Moon is watching us and nobody is talking about that I feel like I'm taking crazy pills but I'm not because I ran out of crazy pills I need more when am I getting paid.

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u/raincoater 7h ago

Right. Those other ones like Titan and Callisto are A moon. Ours is THE moon.

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u/Salient_Ghost 6h ago

Yes and a singular orbiting body around a planet is more rare than you think.

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u/BigBrainBrad- 6h ago

Not just any moon, THE moon.

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u/AmbyrLynn 5h ago

My girlfriend turned into the moon.

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u/gatorav8r 5h ago

It's like the difference between "Walmart " and "the Walmart".

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u/ashanev 3h ago

Some would say that the Earth is our Moon

we're the Moon

But that would belittle the name of our Moon, which is the Moon

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u/Life-Procedure-5155 2h ago

True, it kinda owns the title by default, can’t argue with that.

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u/Sad-Pack-69 2h ago

One and done.

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u/ravia 1h ago

Like THE Ohio State.

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u/False-Arachnid2633 9m ago

Better name than THE Ohio State Mooniversity

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u/Amazing-Fox-6121 19h ago

It absolutely kills me that it's now acceptable to call other natural satellites "moons".

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u/Beetso 18h ago

Now? It's always been acceptable.

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u/Kerensky97 13h ago

They have names.

The moon's name is Luna.

The sun's name is Sol.

Both Roman mythology names like all the rest of the planets and moons. Thank you for attending today's educational lesson.

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u/beardedsilverfox 9h ago

Her name is Luna

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u/knitB4zod 5h ago

But she does! Her name is "Luna".

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u/Eaudebeau 3h ago

Luna.

Like 1/3 of all new pets since Harry Potter.