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martyb
on Monday February 18 2019, @02:17PM
from the do-"flat-Earthers"-believe-in-a-flat-moon? dept.
from the do-"flat-Earthers"-believe-in-a-flat-moon? dept.
"Skygazers will be treated to the 'super snow moon,' on Feb. 19, the largest supermoon of 2019.
February’s full moon is known as the “snow moon” as a result of the heavy snowfall that often occurs at that time of year...............
Supermoons occur when the Moon’s orbit brings it to the closest point to Earth while the Moon is full." foxnews.com/science/get-set-for-super-snow-moon-the-biggest-supermoon-of-the-year
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It's all in the mind, ya know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @02:21PM (9 children)
I don't believe it!
(Score: 3, Informative) by martyb on Monday February 18 2019, @03:07PM (1 child)
It is much easier to complain or criticize than it is to offer constructive feedback.
I have offered several suggestions on how to improve, most recently this comment. [soylentnews.org]
This particular story was posted exactly as received, except for the removal of an emoticon as the first character of the subject line, because it messes with RSS feeds.
Since my direct feedback seems to have had limited to no effect, I thought I would try to elicit direct feedback from the community to see if that may be more effective.
Anyone can look at the story submission queue [soylentnews.org] and see what his other story submissions look like. Further, on any story accepted for publishing to the front page, we include a link to the Original Submission so the community can see exactly what, if anything, was changed.
Making better submissions greatly improves the chances of getting a story accepted.
I could make 100 submissions containing extracts of Lorem ipsum [wikipedia.org] and then complain that the site is ignoring my submissions! Unfair!!! =)
There is a link on the Story Submission [soylentnews.org] page to the Submission Guidelines [soylentnews.org], but it is possible it was not noticed, so I have explicitly provided a link to it, here.
Ultimately, it is about trying to get good quality stories out to the community to discuss, with an emphasis towards science- and technology-related topics.
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Wit is intellect, dancing. I'm too old to act my age. Life is too important to take myself seriously.
(Score: 3, Informative) by captain normal on Monday February 18 2019, @07:09PM
Well, there are much more informed links to sites concerning so-called "super moons" than Faux News (the original "Fake news").
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/super-full-moon.html [timeanddate.com]
The Musk/Trump interview appears to have been hacked, but not a DDOS hack...more like A Distributed Denial of Reality.
(Score: 4, Informative) by FatPhil on Monday February 18 2019, @03:07PM (2 children)
Here's what little science and nonscience there is to my understanding of the matter:
- There are ~12 super-ish moons each and every year - ones at perigee (closest aproach to earth in each orbit), they're basically as common as any other feature of the moon's orbit.
- Some of these super-ish moons are arbitrarily called "supermoons", some are not, as some perigees are a bit closer than other perigees
- Half of the super-ish moons are completely ignored because they're closer to new moons than full moons
- Because astrologers and pulp journalists think the moon can only cause earthquakes and extreme tides when the sun's photons are bouncing off it.
- there's no correlation between supermoons and earthquake activity or extreme tides
- professional astronomers get really annoyed by the public asking them about such nonscience.
This story is just our @jDT obsession with nonscience, and pulp journalistic bullshit. Nothing to see here, move along.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @08:26PM
That could be, there seems to be a very slight effect on pendulum due to that:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allais_effect [wikipedia.org]
Wouldn't be surprising if some kind of butterfly effect could get set off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @08:40PM
Huh, here I thought that the whole "super moon" was just the biggest and brightest looking moon you can get, that is, that it is simultaneously at perigee and is full.
Pretty sure, people like them cause they look impressive.
Winter ones more so, as the snow reflects back and you get the brightest night you can get in many places (not where I live, where the brightest nights are the ones that are overcast and the clouds reflect all our light pollution back at us).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @03:36PM
Me thinks the rDT looked up in the sky yesterday and saw the moon for the first time, and was overly excited at discovering science.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday February 18 2019, @04:02PM (2 children)
Check out the submission page every few days, you will notice a disturbing amount of on topic science related submissions by TRDT.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @04:41PM
Part of the on going propaganda campaign. Solid move by the Russians.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @07:10PM
See above [soylentnews.org].
This very story is an example of the quality of what has been submitted.