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recycled sunlight, sold to you secondhand by a rock with no light of its own
means A ray of light from the moon, especially one falling soft and silvery through darkness.
from A plain compound of "moon" and "beam," both ancient Germanic words: "moon" traces back through Old English "mōna" to Proto-Germanic "mēnô" (a distant cousin of Latin "mensis," month, since the moon measured time), and "beam" comes from Old English "bēam," which first meant a tree or wooden post — the same word survives in "hornbeam" — and only later shifted to mean a shaft of light, perhaps from the idea of a long straight ray. So a moonbeam is, etymologically, a "moon-tree" of light.
- origin
- sunlight bounced off the dim lunar surface
- travel time
- reaches Earth in about 1.3 seconds
- reflectivity
- Moon reflects only 12% of sunlight
- weak glow
- full moon is 400,000 times dimmer than sun
- old light
- every beam already touched the sun first
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