The Best Way To Watch the "Blood Moon" Tonight 146
An anonymous reader writes "People on the West Coast should be able to watch the beginning of the upcoming total lunar eclipse tonight at 10:20 pm. The entirety of the moon surface will be in Earth's shadow and start to glow red a couple hours later, a little after midnight. From the article: 'A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, moon, and Earth align so that Earth's shadow falls across the moon's surface. Monday night's lunar eclipse is a total eclipse, which means Earth's shadow will cover the moon completely. The moon won't be blacked out by our planet's shadow. Instead, it will take on a reddish hue — anywhere from a bright copper to the brownish red of dried blood.'"
A contender for "dumbest headline ever" (Score:4, Funny)
The Best Way To Watch the "Blood Moon" Tonight
...is with your eyes, at the appropriate time. Don't bother looking earlier; it won't have happened yet! Similarly, if you try to catch the eclipse after it's finished, you'll just see an ordinary full moon.
Get it? Got it? Good.
Re:I'm going to have an excellent seat (Score:3, Funny)
And light has no mass! How does it bounce off mirrors? OMG!
Trollolololol! (Score:5, Funny)
What annoys me is that this is happening on a weeknight. Seriously??? Can't anyone think this sort of thing through??? The majority of interested parties have either work or school the next day.
We need to petition to get these events to happen on weekends, so people can stay up late for them without severe disruption of their lives.
Re:The Best Way To View The Blood Moon (Score:4, Funny)
How about you go outside, look around, and see if anyone is selling a sarcasm detector?