Re: CONCULTURE: First thoughts on Ayeri calendar system

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Simon Richard Clarkstone
<s.r.clarkstone@D...> wrote:

>Note: The other ("dark") side of the Moon _does_ get the same amount
>of light, but is called "dark" because its surface is made of darker
>rock.
That statement puzzles me.  It seems to me that that side of the moon
has been called the dark side for a mighty long time.  How would
folks have known it was composed of darker rock before flights to the
moon?  I should think it was called the dark side because people
always saw the same side and it was always lit, therefore the other
side must be dark.

Charlie