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5/8ths cloud in east in Eastern Oz as moon due to rise soon
The "blood moon" is showing its ruddy face on Tuesday, 15 April, and can best be viewed from North America or New Zealand – or in the live coverage streamed here, from the Slooh Observatory. Youtube Video Slooh's telescopes are positioned off the west coast of Africa in the Canary Islands, and started covering the lunar …
"at last something we can all get for free without the fear that the greedy burgers at APPLE won't be trying to get a chunk of wonga by slapping a writ on it."
Wrong. They're going to sue the moon for trademark infringement - for a while the moon did look suspiciously like an apple with a bite taken out of it.
Low thin clouds, probably will be foggy by morning.
Moon red, Mars orange as always (why do people call Mars red, anyway?) ... took a few pictures, the water vapo(u)r in the air will probably make them look like crap.
The ancients would have been having conniption fits ;-)
I struggled with this article, trying to understand what the other event or events might be that cause El Reg to exhort us to watch the "phenomena".
I know 13 or 15 years of Labour non-education has done wonders to the dumbing down of the UK population, but I'd have thought geeks would have avoided such basic ignorance of our rich, multicultural (!) language.
Practically the whole east coast of the US was borked last night. Clouds and rain from Bangor, Maine to Miami Florida, and I believe out to Minnesota on the east-west axis. Roomie's mother called asking about coming down to where we are to see it. I asked if she'd actually looked at a weather map.
Here on the Left Coast, we'll take all the water you can ship us ... To hell with a transatlantic tunnel, how about a transcontinental water pipe? One man's trash is another man's treasure & all that.
Think a project along the lines of the Interstate Highway system[1]. Or trans continental oil & gas pipelines. Or the Rail System. It [c|w]ould put a lot of people to work, and move a hazard (flooding) to where people actually grow the nation's food in the desert. Win-win.
[1] After we fix the b0rken Interstates, of course ... gotta move construction equipment somehow.