stackyFACTSThe moon is perpetually giving us the cold shoulder by being tidally locked to our planet. It takes exactly the same amount of time to rotate once on its axis as it does to orbit Earth, meaning humanity stared up at the exact same crater patterns for millennia until satellites finally peeked around the back.
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