Moon Eclipse Coming Tonight: Don’t Even Bother to Tell Your Teenager
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I know I am suppose to get excited by moon eclipse, but I also know, that most people in the world, find it…just so boring.
Yes, I think it’s safe to say that only one percent of the population is getting excited by the fact that tomorrow morning, there will be a selenelion:
Tomorrow morning almost everyone on the east coast in the Americas, eastern Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Australia will get the rare opportunity to see a special type of lunar eclipse called a selenelion, or horizontal, lunar eclipse.
A selenelion only occurs when a lunar eclipse happens around the same time as sunrise. Because of its timing, observers have the chance to see both an eclipsed moon-set and sunrise simultaneously.
How do I know this? Because I remember years ago, I tried to get a handful of teenagers really excited about a full moon eclipse. It was a Saturday night, and many of them were hanging out in my house, as they tended to do on summer nights as my teenage son, loved to have them all gather at my house, and I keep telling them all that the event that was about to happen was pretty exciting.
You can imagine my surprise, as I watched the earth darken, the eerie shadow cast upon the earth, the almost surreal feel of the earth being engulfed upon a once in a lifetime event, as if the very cells in my body had oozed darkness inside my own warbled brain…and the teenagers around me said “Oh cool.” and went back to partying and telling jokes, and flirting with their girlfriends, the girlfriends laughing at their silly banter, not even looking up…and I remember shouting at them all…
“HEY! Don’t you realized how RARE it is to see a full moon eclipse?”
And one of the girls said “really?” as if I had made the whole thing up, and went back to looking at her nails. They were actually bothered by the fact that it got too dark and they had to WAIT till it was over.
Good god.
So, if you are one of the few who even try to witness (or can) this rare event coming up in just a few hours…
Consider yourself one of the few remaining people on the planet who do.
I —-will probably be asleep.
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
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Can’t believe there’s a issue that has eclipsed daily Kardashian brunch reviews. “Ermagerd, Ebola, we are all gonna daaa!” The quantity of narrow-minded folks on the planet is astonishing.
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That would have made a great Youtube video! LOL!
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Not a lunar eclipse, but the wife and I owned chickens the last time we had a solar eclipse. It was hilarious watching them as the sun blanked out – they all roosted like it was bedtime. Confuse-a-chicken!
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