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According to a report at phys.org, The moon is about to do something it hasn't done in more than 150 years:
Three separate celestial events will occur simultaneously that night, resulting in what some are calling a super blue blood moon eclipse. The astronomical rarity hasn't happened for more than 150 years.
A super moon, like the one visible on New Year's Day, is the term for when a full moon is closest to the Earth in its orbit, appearing bigger and brighter than normal.
On Jan. 31, the moon will be full for the second time in a month, a rare occasion—it happens once every two and a half years—known as a blue moon.
To top it off, there will also be a total lunar eclipse. But unlike last year's solar eclipse, this sky-watching event isn't going to be as visible in the continental United States. The best views of the middle-of-the-night eclipse will be in central and eastern Asia, Indonesia, New Zealand and Australia, although Alaska and Hawaii will get a glimpse, too.
For the rest of the U.S., the eclipse will come too close to when the moon sets for the phenomenon to be visible.
Because of the way the light filters through the atmosphere during an eclipse, blue light is bounced away from the moon, while red light is reflected. The eclipsed moon's reddish color earned it the nickname blood moon.
Super blue blood moon?
So, an extremely noble or socially prominent moon? ;)
I wonder what differences, if any, there would be in the appearance of the Earth from a person standing on the moon, compared to a "normal" full moon?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @07:29PM (17 children)
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Friday January 05 2018, @07:36PM (4 children)
A lunar eclipse is when they replace the lamps illuminating the moon. They do it on a fixed schedule, that's why the eclipses are predictable. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @07:46PM (2 children)
Why don't they just replace them after moonset when the moon's not visible from anywhere on the surface of this flat earth?
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday January 05 2018, @07:57PM
And pay all that overtime?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday January 05 2018, @07:58PM
Because of the visual control that the new lamps work, of course. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @08:13AM
So, the Japanese are involved? Americans and most of Europe are unable to run trains on time. The Japanese, whatever other faults they may have, can run a train on time.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @07:54PM (4 children)
Do watch the eclipse closely. Videos can help you see what to look for.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday January 05 2018, @08:01PM
I don't think there's a flight to the moon planned that day. Not that you'd have had any chance to get on it anyway. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 05 2018, @09:39PM (1 child)
And of course, you can't tell us what to look for else the Freemasons would change the procedure and stop making that mistake, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @02:39AM
It's obvious to anyone who looks. So look.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 07 2018, @06:52AM
They say not to watch the eclipse without the special glasses. Or something bad will happen to your eyes. I watched it without the glasses. Then I watched it through the glasses. And my eyes are fine, folks. No problem there, I guarantee it. But those glasses look very STUPID!
(Score: 4, Funny) by isostatic on Friday January 05 2018, @08:11PM (2 children)
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @08:28PM
*clap* *clap* *clap*
Bravo
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @09:11PM
Amen, Brother/Sister
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @08:53PM
No, no, no! Parent is obviously a NASA employee spreading disinformation! Lunar eclipse is caused by the shadow object [tfes.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @08:48AM (2 children)
Fucking idiot. Flat earth? THERE IS NO GLOBAL THEN!! If there is anything global about the earth, that blows your flat earth away. Fucking idiot. It should be against the law for people to speak, or write, if they don't understand the words they use. Go back to your cave, and practice grunting. Give it a couple million years, you might be ready to join Modern Man again. Geeez, stupid people. They walk among us, and you can't recognize them until they speak!!
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Saturday January 06 2018, @01:14PM
Err … I'm pretty sure a function defined on a flat Euclidean plane can have a global maximum.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 07 2018, @07:15AM
Global means they're everywhere. Like the ones who knocked down the World Trade Center. The 7-11 attack. It wasn't one guy. It was many, many guys. And thousands of Muslims celebrated. DISGUSTING!