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In article <Apr.3.18.23.48.1988.13258@topaz.rutgers.edu> josh@topaz.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) writes:
>-> The same issue of Air&Space contains an article entitled "Resist the
>-> Pull of Mars" in which the author talks about "The dark far side of the
>-> moon..." 
>
>-> Since this is a credible magazine, I should give the guy the benefit
>-> of the doubt and assume he is talking about the period of time that the
>-> moon appears full from the perspective of the earth, but that's not how
>-> it reads.
>
>One of the common meanings of "dark" in colloquial English is
>"unknown", as in "darkest Africa", something the poster was possibly
>in the dark about.  "The dark side of the moon" simply means the side
>facing away from the earth.
>--JoSH

Can we adopt the old Bob Heinlein convention of calling it "Farside?"
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