3 most common skeptical responses I've gotten since posting this experiment across all platforms:

1) The discrepancies are too small to be significant / it could just be a rounding error on the device

Thoughts: I agree that the differences are small, and there's a nonzero chance that all tests were within the range of error. However, despite the small discrepancy, every single time the moonlit weight WAS the slightly colder one. To me, that's significant.

2) Something about how during nighttime, the heat that hit the earth from the sun is escaping back into space, and the shade source blocking that heat's escape is holding in the heat more

Thoughts: To me this sounds like grasping at straws for an explanation, but even if it were true, this is why I used shade sources that were very large and far away (trees), and put the two weights as close together on the ground surface as I could; to ensure the the physical mass of the shade source could not block wind or trap heat in a way that would skew the results

3) Something about how the color blue is colder on the color spectrum, so since the atmosphere makes the sun's reflected light change colors, that's what causes the temperature drop

Thoughts: Again, I just don't buy this; seems like starting from the desired conclusion and making any shit up to get there. If the moon's light was reflecting sunlight (which we know is warm), then that light bouncing off of it would either create zero, or a microscopic temperature increase once it hit Earth - in no way does it make sense that it would go negative.

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If anyone else has "scientific explanations" for the results, feel free to keep sending 'em. I still haven't seen anything that convinces me that mf isn't producing its own light

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