Bark Bark!!!

these photos were taken on earth by a ukrainian photgrapher named ildar ibatullin (reddit) (website) and edited to add colour, based on the placements of different mineral deposits, as you can see here. they're not even from the artemis mission!

looking over the spread of this myth, it doesn't look like anyone intentionally misrepresented anything. it's fairly easy to see a new moon image and connect that in your head with the current and relevant lunar mission, and the person linked in the original post seems to have simply misunderstood how the photos were made (google translate tells me they say they were taken with a "special lens" that revealed these colours, which is not true)

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

just spent an hour of my adult life confirming beyond a shadow of a doubt that the little bunny PNG that shows up occasionally in the new Tomodachi Life IS in fact the exact same stock image they used in Badge Arcade on the 3DS, for that one gag where the Arcade Bunny briefly becomes a recoloured photorealistic rabbit.

i lined them up and attempted to recreate the Badge Arcade version's edits, and they're DEFINITELY the same bunny pic. the only parts that don't line up are its posture (its back was lowered to give a clearer head silhouette, since you can't see its lower half anyways) and its nose, which was very slightly raised in Badge Arcade (it's easier to see up close when you're flipping between the two, just trust me)

like i think i’ve made some connections LOL :p