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TSBU wrote:Guys, I know that some of you can't do it right now, but look at the moon today. It's very big, and yellow.

Yes, I was noticing that it seemed especially impressive of late, and then read the reports. I love looking at the sky - both daytime and nighttime - especially the context it brings. It reminds me that my true environment is not just an abstracted social melee populated by "humans and resources". If we truly appreciated our existential situation we would be so blown away by its extraordinariness that we'd be unable to function.

The brain of the stupidest person you know is still amongst the most complex objects in the known universe.

thedoc wrote:

Philosophy Explorer wrote:"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie..."

PhilX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bx1Yq-X8E

Good one doc.

PhilX

Terrapin Station wrote:

TSBU wrote:Guys, I know that some of you can't do it right now, but look at the moon today. It's very big, and yellow.

Tell me when it's 200,000 miles closer.

Probably won't happen, the Moon is moving away from the Earth about 1.5 " per year. If it started moving towards the Earth, that would be really big news to astronomers.