Take the oceans, about which we know much less than the dark side of the moon.
Everything you needed to fuel your existential crisis was found within the grooves of Dark Side of the Moon.
The list includes "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, "Thriller" by Michael Jackson and "21" by Adele.
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Today, though, few people run off to buy a Pink Floyd album after hearing "Dark Side of the Moon" on their local classic rock station.
Bonhams said the instrument was also believed to have been used on Pink Floyd's albums Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon.
The Economist can take solace that the original picture showing the waxing phase on the left side of the moon in Rio was indeed correct.
The recording that received the highest number of public nominations for this year's registry was The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd's groundbreaking 1973 album.
"Random Access Memories" almost became an opus along the lines of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" or Prince's "LoveSexy, " the latter formatted as one long track.
Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is to seal its place in history at the US Library of Congress as part of its National Recording Registry.
And it could shed light on remaining mysteries, such as why the crust on the far side of the Moon is thicker than that on the near side.
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The discovery would appear to resolve a longstanding mystery in planetary science: why the walnut-shaped Iapetus has a two-tone complexion, with one side of the moon significantly darker than the other.
For example, in 2011's Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Shia LaBeouf wears a T-shirt made by Chinese clothing maker Metersbonwe and, in one scene, a character drinks a carton of Shuhua milk made by dairy group Yili.
In keeping with the area's history and irreverent attitude, the theatre runs periodic showings of Dark Side of Oz, a multimedia mash-up where The Wizard of Oz is shown with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.
Unfortunately, his mnemonic would only work in the northern hemisphere, where the moon is observed in the southern sky with the right side of the moon sunward during the waxing phase and the left side sunward during the waning phase.
Still, when the sun lines up perfectly on the opposite side of the Earth from the moon, as it did on January 4, 1912, it increases the tidal effect slightly.
You might have seen some of his popular jewelry designs -- the quarter moon, the elaborate scenes on the flip side of belt buckles, the curling alligator.
Those viewing outside the favoured zone were treated to a partial eclipse, in which the Moon just took a bite out of the side of the Sun's disc.
The full moon had shone through the glass onto her side of the bed.
The many moon landings are just the most obvious on the plus side of the ledger, the twin space shuttle disasters the most grievous on the negative side.
In the dark, under a starry sky and a waning moon, Todd and I drove up the side of Kimball Mountain, one of the last large peaks on the westernmost slope of the Rockies.
That is, the moon pulls hardest on the Earth's oceans on the side facing the moon, making a bulge of water (high tide).
But the size of the Earth is a few percent of the distance to the moon, which translates to about a 7% stronger gravitational pull on the near side of the Earth than the far side.
The English-language side carries the famous DreamWorks logo of a boy fishing while seated on a crescent moon.
One theory for the difference between the Moon's far side and near side is an ancient collision with a second natural satellite of Earth.
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