Time Lapse of Lunar Eclipse

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Posted by michael on Saturday October 30, 2004 @10:00PM from the shadows-linger dept.

MufasaZX writes "Start with a relatively rare occurrence, the complete lunar eclipse from last Wednesday. Next add the amazingly rare, a perfectly clear fog free night in San Francisco, as viewed from the cliffs overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. Then I set up my trusty Sony MiniDV camcorder and wide angle lens on a tripod and proceeded to freeze my butt off for 2 hours. Dump the video into Premier, accelerate it 200x to just 37 seconds, and the resulting video is IMHO simply stunning. Until my web server gets crushed you can download it here, but after that please use your Gnutella client of choice and search for LunarEclipse-10-2004.wmv."

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Slow by cuteseal · 2004-10-30 22:07 · Score: 3, Funny

By the time this gets downloaded, it will be time for the next lunar eclipse...

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For my next clip by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-30 22:08 · Score: 1, Funny

Using my Ultra HighSpeed Cameras, you'll be able to see *in slow motion!* a server go up in flames as it gets /.ed...
wmv by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-30 22:12 · Score: 4, Funny

hmm...aren't you supposed to post movies in a non-evil format?
The moon is a myth! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-30 22:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't let them fool you. The moon is actually a giant man-made light spot to help spy satellites watch your every moves. Lunar eclipses are just a pretext made up to change the batteries.
1. Re:The moon is a myth! by Asprin · 2004-10-30 23:27 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Whoever modded this "interesting" I want you in my office NOW!
  
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Re:Dare I say it... there's a mirror here... by VGh0st · 2004-10-30 22:34 · Score: 2, Funny

After catching a cold because of falling asleep while waiting for the eclipse on the roof of my apartment, I'd really appreciate a fast mirror to watch the whole thing.
Re:Try Gnutella! by SharpFang · 2004-10-30 22:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Downloaded at 40k/sex.

They call it "Freudian typo".

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in case you can't get the vid by LiquidMind · 2004-10-30 23:18 · Score: 5, Funny

here's a summary

......oooooo0000000OOOOOOO

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Server is down already by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-30 23:22 · Score: 5, Funny

So heres a summary ......oooooo0000000OOOOOOO0000000Ooooooo......
Even rarer... by rirugrat · 2004-10-30 23:30 · Score: 3, Funny

Start with a relatively rare occurrence, the complete lunar eclipse from last Wednesday.
Even rarer...the Boston Red Sox won the World Series!
(Does anyone have a BitTorrent of THAT?!?)
Re:BitTorrent? by mdecarle · 2004-10-30 23:56 · Score: 2, Funny

/. editors made it impossible to link to file:///c:/con/con in my sig. Please just type it in your browser
And right they are, your website is broken!

Well, it didn't work on W2K + IE6, and file:///c:/CON gave me an 'Open With' dialog box. What program should I use?
The moon, eh? :-) by Compact+Dick · 2004-10-30 23:57 · Score: 5, Funny

The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth -- by 70%

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.

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1. Re:The moon, eh? :-) by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-31 03:45 · Score: 3, Funny
  I simply refuse to put up with limp, Satanic, fellow-travelling shit like this piece of sub-human garbage in your pewling, idiotic post[?]:
  
  "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!) "
  
  Let's count the errors, shall we?
  
  The Earth does not "rotate". If it did, we would all be blown around ten ways to Tuesday by the winds created.
  
  If the Earth did rotate, then one would expect to see tornadoes in the area at the centre of rotation. This would imply that Kansas is the centre of the Earth, a thought pleasing to my personal sympathies, but contradicted by scripture. There has never been a tornado in Jerusalem
  
  Joshua asked Our Lord to stop the Sun, you ignorant asshole, not the Earth. What possible good would it have done to stop the Earth from moving?
  
  Your blasphemous statement that the Moon "reflects" light from the Sun directly contradicts Genesis 3:16, in which it is made perfectly clear that "he created the moon, that the slimy crawling things by night might see". Which part of "he created", don't you understand? Your pathetic advocacy of the fraudulent theory (and it IS a THEORY, not some bourgeois, East-Coast elitist idea of a "fact") is sickening.
  
  Your evil whinings are, quite frankly, tantamount to liberalism.
Re:Try Gnutella! by TyrranzzX · 2004-10-31 01:19 · Score: 2, Funny

Downloaded at 40k/sex.

They call it "Freudian typo".

I'd call it a very expensive hooker myself...

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Re:cross-platform, please? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-31 05:15 · Score: 2, Funny

And while recompiling it, remember to repeat the Linux mantra:

"Linux is ready for prime time!"