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.
(Score: 4, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday November 08 2016, @09:02AM
I read the title as "Here Comes a Once-in-a-Lifetme Supermoron".
Maybe you were primed by glancing over the word "election" in the summary.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Tuesday November 08 2016, @11:28AM
Thankfully, I don't have a vote in that particular election. I get to listen to running commentary on it from the other side of the Atlantic, and live with the worldwide political consequences instead.