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. . . with a fancy camera sent me this pic he took this morning of the lunar eclipse. Quite frankly, I'm not really sure I understand the lunar eclipse, and I didn't feel like staggering out into my lawn to look at it. But the picture is cool.
Now a solar eclipse is cool. I think the last big one we had was in the 1970s. And I'm not sure when a big one is coming around again.
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Hello, this is Dr. Lue Kemia and this is not good news at all.
Not looking at the eclipse is bad luck which includes such ailments as thinning hair,mowing in rainbow pants and in the final days what is known as the Hollistercaust syndrome.
You will need to come in for a shot of Petercyllin.
It was still visible at 6:00 am.
Good job Anon 8:34, worst comment ever.
Lunar eclipse = when the earth is inbetween the sun and the moon, and the earth's shadow covers the moon. Nothing really impressive.
The earth moving in front of the moon to cast a shadow is technical science and cannot be understood by simple men. The law field would be the perfect career move in this situation.
I was out on my lawn this morning and it was pretty neat to watch. I took some pics but they're pretty crappy since I wasn't using a tripod and don't have a fancy mega lense. Anyway here they are.
FYI: The next lunar eclipse will be on February 21, 2008.
9:04, 9:12, yes a lunar eclipse is pretty simple to understand, but only after someone has taught YOU what's going on. I don't think Native Americans, ancient Eqyptians, Aborigines or any other cultures were stupid...yet they all were mystified and even terrified when the moon turned red like blood, or when the sun disappeared in the middle of the day. How do you think the existence of "God" came into being in the first place? From stuff like this, for which humans had no clue other than "someone" must be doing it. Eclipses, tidal waves, volcanoes, plagues, on and on. We know now how these things happen. They didn't know, thus we have the idea of God.
6:06 - you seem a little lacking in your understanding of eclipses if you claim these ancient civilizations didn't understand them. Several had detailed calendars that predicted these astronomical events (of course, the good Christians had the mathematicians killed as heretics for their knowledge). But don't confuse predictable celestial events with random events like tidal waves, volcanoes and plagues.
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