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By mid-November, Chicago's World Series afterglow will have faded and the hotly contested presidential election will be done and dusted, but North Americans will have one more "once in a lifetime event" to look forward to: The biggest, most spectacular supermoon in decades.
On November 14, skywatchers will be rewarded with a lunar close-up, the result of a coincidence between the moon's elliptical orbit and the position of the Earth and Sun.
A "supermoon" is the colloquial term for when a full moon coincides with the moon's closest approach to Earth, known as perigee.
Supermoon, Black Moon, the Cubs winning the World Series...the signs are upon us. The end is nigh.
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Wow! Look!! A stray meatball!! Let's interview it!
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Tuesday November 08 2016, @07:06AM
Supermoon, Black Moon, the Cubs winning the World Series...the signs are upon us. The end is nigh.
How true this is... The US election in a few hours will start the second coming...
DOOOOOOOMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!! DOOOOOOOMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!! DOOOOOOOMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It doesn't matter which one wins
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @07:34AM
Well, I do think the election will go down in history as either The Reformation or The End of Empire. Wonder how long either will last, but it is the dawning of a new age.
Here's to hoping we've learned from our mistakes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @04:22PM
People say that every four years because they buy into the "if so-and-so wins, it is the end as we know it" crap from cable pundits.
Get out of your echo chamber and see that big changes occur over long time frames despite the few isolated 9/11 type events you may want to try and counter with.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @04:43PM
Truly oh wise one, then riddle me this:
Every single point forward is from a long chain of events. At any given point, change is afoot, including this one.
Can you name any other election where the presidential candidate didn't have the support of their own party? Or the other candidate is mostly despised by their party's grassroots supporters?
Anyone too stupid to see the ramifications it has to the major parties is probably stuck in an echo chamber of their own ass. The parties are fracturing, which is where the real change will come about beyond the election.
And that will be over the long term, and it starts now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @10:43AM
So, if we take all the USA non-voters, the people who don't want the other candidate in office, or just vote but choose out of two candidates they don't like (my feeling is like this is more than 50 percent, but I could be wrong). If all these people would vote for one of the other candidates, would this be possible to break the current two-party system and put a non-republican and non-democrat into office?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @11:02AM
So if we could convince everyone in the world to give me just one cent … what do you say? Unrealistic? Well, it was you who started with unrealistic assumptions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @11:04AM
To be honest, the third party candidates aren't exactly some prize either. They just suck a great deal less than the major candidates.
Besides, only the Libertarian Party is on the ballot in all 50 states beyond the major parties, and as much as they are maligned by the left (even though they agree with at least 50% of the platform), the left would rather hold their noses and vote for Hilary, hoping for the best.
Most principled (however small they are) Republicans will be voting for Johnson.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @04:25PM
As far as you can tell, but we really don't know enough about them to even say that. They look better because they are not Trump or Clinton, but that's about as far as you can take that at this point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @04:50PM
Correction: you don't know enough about them.
I lived in New Mexico under Johnson. He's a competent administrator. Not perfect by any means, but I would have minimal concerns over a Johnson presidency. He did quite well as governor.
(Score: 2) by cykros on Tuesday November 08 2016, @07:21PM
They're maligned by the left because the extreme wing of the party is a lot louder than the sensible majority. When the party's impression is formed by people who would remove taxes to even upkeep basic infrastructure (like roads), you can't expect the bulk of the nation to take it seriously. What the Libertarian Party needs is a drastic PR change representing the realistic policy changes it'd seek to make rather than so much idealism that fails to take real world complexity into account. It certainly didn't help that Johnson didn't take his own campaign seriously enough as a valid run for president instead of some symbolic inclusion to be bothered to know where Aleppo was or why he should. Do you expect to interview for a senior developer position only to get away with a question like "what's this MySQL thing over here?" Hopefully the party will learn from that mistake. It'd seem as though they just had gotten used to the spotlights being shined in the other direction for so long.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 08 2016, @09:30PM
Supermoon, Black Moon, the Cubs winning the World Series, a sensible majority of the Libertarian Party?...the signs are upon us. The end is [-nigh-] here!.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @09:40PM
And you haven't been marked a troll immediately upon making your presence known.
It is truly the end of days.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 08 2016, @09:52PM
And you haven't been marked a troll immediately upon making your presence known.
It is truly the end of days.
"I have a dream! I dream that one day trolls will be judged by the content of their comments, not by the color of their skin or the size of their supermoon!"