Dark side of the moon

The large impact basin pictured is Crater 308. It spans about 30 kilometers (19 miles) and was photographed by the crew of Apollo 11 as they circled the Moon in 1969."

Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt standing next to boulder at Taurus-Littrow during third EVA. I've been troubled lately. I knew that our moon was, visually, exactly the same size as our sun. But a few days ago I learnt that we never seen the dark side of the moon, not because it is dark, but because our moon spins every 28 days, and as it also revolves around us every 28 days it, 'just so happens' that it's always facing one way, from our view point. Two, rather odd coincidences.

I began to wonder why. If there was little green men, or a god, on the other side, and they caused it to be so.

Well, I was just wondering. I'll go see if anybody else has been troubled about this in Google. [Update:] Not much there... Just one little snip thast makes things seem a litle worse... "The far side of the Moon was first seen on September 15, 1959 when the unmanned Soviet probe Luna 2 was launched into an orbit over it." So, we haven't done much looking there, have we?

I know, it's daft, but these daft things keep me awake some nights. Just don't like coincidences — especially when they're in twos, more so when they're this magnitude. (Back to work, kids and the real world.)

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