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'Blood Moon', the Longest Total Lunar Eclipse of the Century, Underway (bbc.co.uk)
Skywatchers are being treated to the longest "blood moon" eclipse of the 21st Century. From a report: As it rises, during this total eclipse, Earth's natural satellite turns a striking shade of red or ruddy brown. The "totality" period, when light from the Moon is totally obscured, will last for one hour, 43 minutes. At least part of the eclipse is visible from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, most of Asia and South America. On the same night and over the coming days, Mars will be at its closest point to Earth since 2003 - visible as a "bright red star" where skies are clear. Here's a live feed, provided by NASA.
The year 1018 called, they want their Signs and Portents back.
i for one welcome our Moon OverLords
It's all over the news, but people don't realize it is not visible from the US. I wish the news agencies would make that clear.
If you look at the coverage map, it seems to point to Moscow.
I am the unwilling control for my Origin.
I am looking at it right now without any eye protection, but this thing called Earth is in the way - I'm in the US. Also I think your warning mixed up lunar and solar eclipse.
when light from the Moon is totally obscured
While I'm being picky, isn't the light from the Sun being obscured here? Can't fault the summary since it is direct quote from article. Fact checkers need jobs too! Or maybe they need a new fact checker.
Weeks of clear skies and sun.
Yet the evening of the eclipse and it's cloudy and raining in the south of the UK.
Why today? why? The 'law of universal irony' strikes again.
Still at least the garden's getting a much needed watering and there are recordings of the event being put on the Internet.
Be sure to drink your sarcophagus juice before the Blood Moon peaks!
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The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth
.. 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.
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
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.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Thanks for the advice, it even improved the experience! The moon was *entirely* gone!
CLI paste? paste.pr0.tips!
The end of the Earth. That's fine and all, but it looks the same to me.
OH, LOOK! Slashdot now supports Unicode! It *IS* a new world!
Hint to admins: if you'd just replace left double quotation mark and right (U+201C and U+201D) and then em-dash with their poor ASCII cousins on input, you'd fix like 50% of the gripes. I could live without emotions, I'm not an Ancient Egyptian like some people.
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
I came here for the obligatory BotW comment, and was disappointed not to find one
Lunar Eclipse over Rio: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap1...