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Lunar Eclipse Tonight

Maybe if we run around outside blowing horns and banging pots together, we'll frighten him and he'll spit the moon back out again!

Edit to add: obviously I'm not getting much work done... off home.
 
Zombified said:
Maybe if we run around outside blowing horns and banging pots together, we'll frighten him and he'll spit the moon back out again!

Edit to add: obviously I'm not getting much work done... off home.
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There was a great short story I read one time by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, that translated in to English. What was amazing about this short story was that it was only about a page-and-a-half long. I can't seem to find it anymore online, and I read it several years ago when I was still a young-pup in undergrad (and, yes, I mean like 16-17 years ago).

To paraphrase an already short story, it basically went like this:

A Spanish explorer who, upon arriving in the Yucatan peninsula, was capture and taken prisoner by some Incan or Aztec tribe. He was going to be offered as a sacrifice to the Gods, and on the particular night he was to be sacrificied, he just so happened to know that there was to be a lunar eclipse. As the time approached and the moment of sacrifice grew nearer, he tried to tell the savages that, if he wasn't released immediately, he would seek revenge after his death by turning into a powerful God. To prove his power, he told the natives that he would now make the moon go dark... just as the eclipse began. At about that moment, the Aztec (or Incan) witch doctor in charge of the ceremony produced and showed to him a chart that illustrated the moon cycles and when the next several eclipses would occur, shortly before his head was removed from his body.

-TT
 
Note to self - prior to next major interesting astrophysical event, ensure camera batteries are charged. :mad:

Watching it peeking out of totality on the drive home was cool, but (a) it's a bit cold to have the top down at 39°F and (b) gotta remember to watch the road!
 
Got to see it at about the halfway point.

Is it just my faulty memory, or do good sized earthquakes seem to happen around full eclipses of the moon?

It seems like there was a full moon the night before the Sylmar quake when I was a kid, but I could be misremembering.
 
It rained all night here. Anyway, eclipses of the Moon can't happen, because there is no gravity.
As explained by Question, the embodiment of levity.

You're all deluded.
 
RSLancastr said:

Is it just my faulty memory, or do good sized earthquakes seem to happen around full eclipses of the moon?
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The ones that happen around full eclipses of the moon, do seem to happen at that time, yes.


Many more happen when there isn't one, though.
 
alfaniner said:
Does that mean that the Red Sox can only win the pennant "once in a red moon"?
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My students were telling me that the red color of the moon was a good omen for the sox...y'know, because, it's all red 'n stuff...


....unlike a cardinal, apparently.
 
Guess what. The cloud blew away in time for me to see it about half dark. I watched it for about an hour then headed home. The only bad thing is I forgot to thaw out my gal. of yak blood so I could pour a pentagram shape on the yard. Hopefully my garden will be ok next year without it.:p
 
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