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Rare Black Moon on Friday, September 30th

posted by takyon on Saturday October 01 2016, @01:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the mooned-you-too-late dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Are you ready for a cosmic shift of epic proportions? You’d better be, because such a shift is approaching, courtesy of our moon! This Friday, September 30th, the moon will be new but ‘black.’ During a black moon, the side of Earth’s natural satellite lit by the sun faces away from our planet. As a result, …

Also at Space.com which clarifies that when there are two New Moons in a single calendar month, the second one is called a Black Moon. This is analogous to a "Blue Moon" which is the second Full Moon occurring in a single calendar month.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01 2016, @01:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01 2016, @01:15AM (#408609)

    "Astrologists credit the black moon with awakening one’s anima." Pshaw!

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  • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Saturday October 01 2016, @04:29AM

    by Aiwendil (531) on Saturday October 01 2016, @04:29AM (#408658) Journal

    That settles it!
    This weekends backfround anime will be Macross 7.

    That is my use for pseudo-science, I do scan it for keywords and use those to scan through the plot outlines of all series, movies and music I have at hand and generate a playlist for it.

    On a related note: Do anyone know how to exclude +Anima from a google search (without going verbatim)? (Search: [anime anima -"+anima"] yielded only +Anima results)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01 2016, @06:30AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01 2016, @06:30AM (#408669)

      I am going to get my +anima on with some Harry Potter fanfics