On a post I reblogged recently about the moons rotation I noticed a lot of people saying it was fake. So here is some really interesting info about Tidal Locking.
"An enduring myth about the Moon is that it doesn't rotate. While it's true that the Moon keeps the same face to us, this only happens because the Moon rotates at the same rate as its orbital motion, a special case of tidal locking called synchronous rotation. The animation shows both the orbit and the rotation of the Moon."
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Tidal Locking
" Earth’s Moon rotates, but it takes precisely as long for the Moon to spin on its axis as it does to complete its monthly orbit around Earth. As a result, the Moon never turns its back to us, like a dancer circling ― but always facing ― its partner.
This phenomenon, called “synchronous tidal locking,” sounds like a weird coincidence ― but it’s actually quite common. All the solar system’s large moons are tidally locked with their planets. The bigger moons synchronize early in their existence, within hundreds of thousands of orbits. Some binary stars are tidally locked to one another, and evidence is building that many planets beyond our solar system are tidally locked with their stars."
The Most Badass Man in History — Lt. General Adrian Carton de Wiart
Born/Died: May 5th, 1880 - June 5th 1963
Military Service: British Army, 1899–1923, 1939–1947
Awards: Victoria Cross, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Companion of the Order of Bath, Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, Distinguished Service Order, Legion of Honour (France), Vituti Militari (Poland), Cross of Valor (Poland), Croix de Guerre (Belgium), Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium).
Wars/Conflicts: 2nd Boer War, Anglo Somali War, World War I (Western Front), Polish Soviet War, World War II (Europe and Pacific).
Wounded: 11 times, including face, groin, head, stomach, lungs, ankle, leg, hip, and ear.
Body Parts Lost: Left eye, left hand, part of left ear.
Plane Crashes Survived: 2
Prison Escapes: 7
Favorite Pastime: Hunting wild boars with a spear.
Friends With: Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Carl Gustav Mannerheim, Prince Karol Mikołaj Radziwiłł, Marshal Pilsudski, Pope Pius XI, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai Shek, and Clement Attlee.
Married to: Countess Friederike Maria Karoline Henriette Rosa Sabina Franziska Fugger von Babenhausen, Ruth Myrtle Muriel Joan McKechnie
Notable Quotes: “Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power. We are told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which of these weapons I would choose.”
Notable Instances of Badassery
- Shot in the groin and stomach during the Boer Wars, recovered and returned to combat.
-While fighting against Mohammed “The Mad Mullah” bin Abdullah in Somalia he was shot in the face twice, losing an eye. Continued fighting.
-World War I — Took command of three infantry battalions and a brigade when his superiors were killed. Led from the front at all times.
-Bit off his own mangled fingers when a surgeon refused to amputate them.
-Shot through the skull and ankle at the Battle of the Somme, through the hip at the Battle of Passchendaele, through the leg at Cambrai, and through the ear at Arras.
-Thoughts on World War I: “Frankly, I enjoyed the war.”
-Supplied weapons to the Polish during the Polish Soviet War.
-Fought in a gunfight against a band of angry Cossacks.
-Seconded in a duel with Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, later commander-in-chief of Finnish armies in World War II and President of Finland.
-World War II — House in Poland was bombed (with him in it) when the Germans invaded in 1939. Escaped in a car to Romania as the German Air Force attempted to strafe and bomb him.
-Led British Ski Commandos in Norway.
-Survived airplane crash in the Mediterranean. Swam 1 mile in freezing water to shore. Was captured by the enemy.
-The enemy considered him too “disabled” to live in a POW camp. He was offered the chance to return home if he resigned from the British Army. He refused and instead escaped from a POW camp after digging a tunnel for 7 months.
-In the last years of the war and after he served as a British ambassador in China. Enjoyed watching Allied and Japanese fighters dogfighting from the bridge of the HMS Queen Elizabeth.
-Interrupted a propaganda speech by Mao Tse Tung to tell him he was a lunatic.
-In his old age he fell and injured his back. During the resulting back surgery doctors removed “an incredible amount of shrapnel”.
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