
015 = Getting Plucky and Feeling Lucky
A Problem Squared
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The Problem With the Shadow Puppet
Even if there was no atmosphere, which would blow your image, you're still not going to get a sharp shadow over this kind of a distance. Even low Earth orbit would probably be sufficient to get above the atmosphere to have a much clearer projection onto the moon. Catherine also says, if I'm standing on Earth, so let's bring Catherine back down to Earth with the right equipment is the distance too great to cast accurate shapes with the shadow puppet just become fuzzy beyond recognition. But even without the atmosphere as an issue, blowing the image, you've got another problem that light isn't a particle but a wave. And so when you actually cast a shadow, instead of it being a sharp
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