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.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Saturday October 01 2016, @02:51PM
Before I left slashdot, I used to get +5 flamebait fairly regularly with like a dozen moderations to do it.
I've never cared about moderation, but I thought it was hilarious that people had so little to do with their time that they'd keep modding posts that were sometimes days old.