To put it in another perspective, lets just say we want to build greenhouses on the moon. Will some places be darker than others? And in yet another perspective, if Earths atmosphere suddenly disappears and we are left with a sky like that of the moon, how evenly distributed is the light? Presumably, the intensity of the sun is enough to blind you, but other places will be very dark. The fact that most of the sky appears black on the moon suggests that there is a difference between intensity and distribution. This idea of a world where we can see a blindingly bright object, yet black skies and the fact that the object does not light up the entire surface is what i'm trying to understand.

It's like shining a torch in a dark room, only that the analogy doesn't work because we're talking about a torch as bright as the sun! How do we understand this?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/27/2005 09:45PM by darkuser.