my office-worker's response wz "blimey!!"
then: "what happens with a full moon? is it vampires?"
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:39 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:40 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:40 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:43 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:48 (twenty-two years ago) link
Anyway it's pitch dark now, but I'm off to catch me bus home quite shortly, so I care not. Am on wrong side of building to see pretty moon at present astronomical state of affairs, bah humbug. May sneak out to watch meteorites tomorrw though. Quelle quadrant are they coming from, Madchen?
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:55 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alix (alix), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:59 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jeff W (Jeff W), Monday, 18 November 2002 17:20 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 18 November 2002 18:05 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 18 November 2002 18:07 (twenty-two years ago) link
Characterized by convexity; protuberant. More than half but less than fully illuminated. Used of the moon or a planet. Having a hump; humpbacked.
i love this word
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 18 November 2002 18:11 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 18 November 2002 20:04 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 18 November 2002 20:45 (twenty-two years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 18 November 2002 20:58 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:01 (twenty-two years ago) link
(it is very low and flat and muddy-coloured)
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 2 May 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7779294.stm
― very very serious (gabbneb), Saturday, 13 December 2008 10:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I woke up this morning with an odd taste in my mouth, while my hands seemed to be covered in a partially dried red liquid. My sleep last night was disturbed by strange dreams that I cannot now remember. Mysterious.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Saturday, 13 December 2008 11:02 (sixteen years ago) link
good fucking luck seeing the moon in England right now
― snoball, Saturday, 13 December 2008 11:15 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck clouds
― Jarlrmai, Saturday, 13 December 2008 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
actually, good fucking luck seeing the sun in England right now...
― snoball, Saturday, 13 December 2008 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Where is it appearing huge? I'm in the Midwest, where it looks normal.
― u s steel, Saturday, 13 December 2008 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link
everywhere
― Jarlrmai, Saturday, 13 December 2008 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
it will look bigger than normal when it's lower in the sky in comparison with ground objects.
― Jarlrmai, Saturday, 13 December 2008 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
But that is always the case! Fat horizon fat moon is a classic optical illusion. I suppose it is (was?) less illusory?
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Saturday, 13 December 2008 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
O_o
http://moonpublicity.com/mp/
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Many people are strongly opposed to creating commercial images on the Moon. We would feel the same way if it were solely for monetary gain.However, consider the big picture. What is the biggest problem in the world? Is it hunger? Is it illness? Is it war? No.
However, consider the big picture. What is the biggest problem in the world? Is it hunger? Is it illness? Is it war? No.
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 09:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Thought this thread was going to be about Enter The Dragon.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 August 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I hope whoever thought this up dies in pain, soon.
― Calamari Merkin (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 August 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chairface-moon.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
What is the biggest problem in the world? Is it hunger? Is it illness? Is it war? No.
The biggest problem in the world then, is: that we haven't yet put ads on the moon?
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Saturday, 1 August 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Cosign. I'll help.
― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Saturday, 1 August 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost:
No! The biggest problem in the world is the inevitable extinction of the human species. It is so inevitable that it can only be avoided though lunar advertising! See how logical this connection is, in a totally non-convoluted way: http://www.moonpublicity.com/mp/shadow-shaping/the-big-picture
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I hope whoever thought this up dies in pain, soon
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 August 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Some groups of people may object to changing the appearance of the Moon for religious, environmental or sentimental reasons. Most of these objections can be handled through proper framing. For example, commercial space development can take the place of governmental space development to a degree, freeing up federal funds to better deal with humanitarian and social issues. While Shadow Shaping can last for thousands of years, it can also be erased by Shadow Shaping robots as easily as it is created. It is just a collection of small ridges made in the lunar dust. It has no impact to the lunar environment, and it only creates images during partial lunar phases, leaving the full Moon unchanged.
Fuck this guy.
― When two tribes go to war, he always gets picked last (James Morrison), Sunday, 2 August 2009 12:17 (fifteen years ago) link
The argument that only corporations can get us into space is especially tiresome when it's clear that iron-fisted communism works just as well to that end.
― reared on Shakespeare (kenan), Sunday, 2 August 2009 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
As I understand it, the shuttle gets retired last year, while Soviet-era rockets are still running like trains.
Wasn't lunar advertising another libertarian wingnut Robert Heinlein idea?
― Soukesian, Sunday, 2 August 2009 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, though he wasn't the first:
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/215/1
― Soukesian, Sunday, 2 August 2009 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha, he's right! The majority of the U.S. tax budget is being consumed by funding for manned space flight!
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Sunday, 2 August 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Nasa to crash metal thingy into the moon to see if it gets wet in about three hours!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/index.html
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 08:32 (fifteen years ago) link
one hour!
Come on, I can't be the only geek on here :-)
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
i got my nasa tv link ready to go
― surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Friday, 9 October 2009 10:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait, when did we declare war on the moon?
― ...and the wizard blew his horn (Masonic Boom), Friday, 9 October 2009 10:33 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe you should sign this:http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/stop-nasa-from-bombing-the-moon
― surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Friday, 9 October 2009 10:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Usable water under the moon's surface would make setting up permanent stations there much more feasible, because transporting water to there would be prohibitively expensive by any standards.
I'm excited!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 October 2009 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) that's hilarious, but you just know that some people signed it in all seriousness without reading the whole thing.
So this is Andrew WK's latest project?
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Friday, 9 October 2009 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link
lol @ "Leave my sister alone!"
― Vladislav Delap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 9 October 2009 10:48 (fifteen years ago) link
because it is fun and enlightening.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Friday, 9 October 2009 10:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Dudes like blowing up shit for the sake of it.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Friday, 9 October 2009 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, thank you.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Friday, 9 October 2009 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
this is a high impact science experiment. doesn't all have to be petri dishes and pipettes ffs.
― Lovely and tender, like velvet. (Upt0eleven), Friday, 9 October 2009 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
doesn't all have to be petri dishes and pipettes ffs.
You're thinking of the Observer Music Monthly surely?
― Obscured by clowns (NickB), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I am ALWAYS thinking of the OMM. Apart from now, when I'm thinking about the moon and the opportunities for exploiting its resources.
― Lovely and tender, like velvet. (Upt0eleven), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I bet they won't find oil there :-(
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Oil? That's where the WMD are stowed!
― ...and the wizard blew his horn (Masonic Boom), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/S99-nuclear_explosion.jpg/280px-S99-nuclear_explosion.jpg
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
What if the moon is unexpectedly hollow and it breaks up and it all falls to earth and the tidal motions of the oceans stop? I've closed my windows for the time being.
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah that'll help...
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link
What if the moon is unexpectedly hollow and we wake the slumbering elder gods within?
― surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
one_nation_under_God.jpg
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Can't wait.
― surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I wish I could see the moon. Instead it's raining.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe it sprung a leak?
― Obscured by clowns (NickB), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:29 (fifteen years ago) link
FINAL TRANSMISSION: "Houston, I've changed my mind, I really don't want t"
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Did anything blow up?
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
any second now
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
oh no, they missed :-(
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Ooh... I hope we accidentally unburied a monolith!
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
How can you miss the moon? It's thousands of miles across!
― ...and the wizard blew his horn (Masonic Boom), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
This is really not inspiring my confidence in NASA.
I think it was a joke.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
yep :-)
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:35 (fifteen years ago) link
boom!
(we'll only know if there's water after about an hour, I believe)
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Nasa expert: "It's hard to tell what we saw just now"
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, now they're going to analyse (spectroscopy & so on) the impact plume and the data from 9 instruments on the craft, apparently.
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Watching on Nasa.tv, some communication difficulties you'd think they'd have cleared up by now:
"NIR 1 to OPR 15""NIR 1... er is that Mike or November?"
― surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
lol that was a waste of time
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
We wanted Mike, but we got November.
― moley, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ :-D
xp
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
when the STRANGE DREAMS start tonight, we'll know that Cthulhu has awoken.
― ...and the wizard blew his horn (Masonic Boom), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Not as exciting as
http://weathervortex.com/to_add/2008_07_01_archive_files/WaterOnMars2_gcc.jpg
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Data received: 01110111 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100001 01110111 01101111 01101011 01100101 01101110
― StanM, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
OTM.
We plebs want the computer simulation. Let the boffins work on that one tonight and present it to us tomorrow. P.S. We want big splashy bang kablooey.
― moley, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
This is Nasa's equivelent of the LHC as far as thrill-a-minute action goes.
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8297811.stmThere's a slideshow that shows what was supposed to happen. Meanwhile, the live feed (three guys sitting around a desk) has just gone down!
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
You gotta love those feeds. "Live in the control room: NERDS!"
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, somebody post video when you find some. I'm going back to bed.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Friday, 9 October 2009 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
"look at the moon!!"
― Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2009 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
This should be as easy as punching a person in front of you at the line at the supermarket- you know that one that has 30 items in a 15 limit fast checkout.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Friday, 9 October 2009 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Hunter's Moon/Blood Moon tonight -- it's bright enough out there to read by.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Saturday, 23 October 2010 04:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Second Aries moon for the year. Not sure what that means but apaz it is unusual. Sure has been a lot of nutty people about the last 36 hours or so.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Saturday, 23 October 2010 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link
It's lovely here but a bit hidden in the clouds, though that provides its own beauty too of course.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 October 2010 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
chicago is illuminated by it now i can say
― social-media-compost Circle of Life (jdchurchill), Saturday, 23 October 2010 05:59 (fourteen years ago) link
after seemingly month(s) of interminable cloudless nights, we get the blood moon of the century, and also Mars at it's brightest and closest position to Earth right next to it tonight. And it turns out to be night of the fucking clouds :(
― calzino, Friday, 27 July 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
the moon and mars are nexter than ever
― mark s, Friday, 7 June 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
Moon’s got water
We detected water on the Moon’s sunlit surface for the first time! This suggests water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places. Tune in live to learn more: https://t.co/t3AhWT3hNJ https://t.co/73u4hrX90V— SOFIAtelescope (@SOFIAtelescope) October 26, 2020
― scampus milne (gyac), Monday, 26 October 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
The last couple of nights have been spectacular (literally!)! In London the moon has been a razor sharp crescent. Two nights ago it hung low in the sky so it looked huge and faintly orange, and VENUS (for I assume it is she) shining out like a baleful beacon just above it. Last night we got a similar display. Venus had moved on some distance below the moon but still felt like a partner. Hard to explain the feeling that such a sight gives you. It was genuinely moving!
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 February 2025 14:23 (one week ago) link
Had a very similar experience a bit north of NYC this past Saturday. I was in the car with my kid and commented that it almost looked unreal, like a cartoon or something. I don’t recall ever seeing a crescent moon so crisp and clear, and also illuminated almost from below rather than more on the side which I’m more used to. Venus was just to right, extraordinarily bright.
― early rejecter, Monday, 3 February 2025 14:39 (one week ago) link
Yeah my 8 year old son asked me, what’s that bright star by the moon? I said that’s, that’s… hold on let me Google. Right it’s Venus!
― Heez, Monday, 3 February 2025 14:50 (one week ago) link