Dukasaur wrote:Phatscotty wrote:Alright, giving up searching the internet on this one and I haven't heard anyone talking about it in over a month. Most people I know and even recently total (female) strangers in random places have all agreed when asked; it looks like a chunk of the moon is missing on the bottom right corner. WTF?
Anyone else noticed this or heard an explanation for why it looks like this?
It's a trick based on the way our eyes work. We perceive bright objects as being larger than they are, and dark objects as being smaller than they are. It's the reason fat people were black clothes.
As you can sea, most of the right side (from our point of view) of the moon is dark "seas" that our eyes fool us into thinking they are smaller than they are. To a lesser degree, this is also true of the lower 1/3 of the moon. The "top left" of the moon is the opposite. It is highly pulverized rock that reflects light very brightly and therefore seems to us as being larger than it is.

Thank you very much Dukky! I think I missed the brightness darkness ratio and how it affects our sight because having a history/family history of all different kinds of sales. me n mine mostly talk about objects creating motion to guide the eye and where it looks therefore what it looks at, which is always by the highest/higher mark-ups to get more people to look at them and spend time in our booth/tent/flea market etc. Maybe I had never noticed it before because I'm 35 now and my eyes aren't 20/20 anymore. I think the moon was probably just in the right cycle a couple months ago so the visual effect had the most impact. However, I've never heard anyone talk about this in my life, I meant 'nobody' as in that I know of or have ever known. I kind of thought maybe the moon did take an impact because 2-3 nights after I had first noticed it (over the period of my life) there seemed to by a dust plume that expanded out past the bottom right
corner actually making it appear to be bigger on the bottom right.

Total speculation that an asteroid hit it.
Nonetheless, this thread is a riot! I get most people are ripping on me, it's totes cool I can laugh at myself and I'm glad someone took the time to give a serious answer. A couple people even turning a question which ends up has a totally reasonable answer as to why in fact it does look the way it looks, meaning the question of why it looks that way is totally justified as well as why it is not a sign of mental illness

nevermind they ignore the way it looks is the way it looks, and nevermind the fact I would bet considerable money that very few of the people who want to make this about me being dumb for not knowing the answer to this question did not know the answer themselves. However, I've laughed my ass off at the responses....even Bernies.