Blood Moon

I was wanting to see what everyone thought about the Blood Moon, and what there idea may be for what it means and may or may not become of humanity or the world?

I'm just being honest when I say it's a cool thing to look at. It's very explainable by scientific principles... it wasn't accompanied by any major world changes...

The most it might do is inspire some fear or change in people.

I'm open to seeing where any event goes, but I don't expect much to happen in the next series of 6 months.

We're doomed.

Connor L. wrote: I'm just being honest when I say it's a cool thing to look at. It's very explainable by scientific principles... it wasn't accompanied by any major world changes...

This is why I appreciate something Neil deGrasse Tyson said on Twitter about how people want to call it a Blood Moon but he personally prefers to think of rose petals. I couldn't see it because Chicago has snow problem, but from the pictures I've seen it definitely looks more orange like a rust color.

Beautiful to look at though.

Were this a primitive era in our existence, we most likely would have seen this as a sign of unrest and doom, as well as a reason to behave irrationally and barbaric against our neighbors. Some still live in that era in their minds, sadly.

That was one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. I set up my telescope in the back yard and my wife, our good friend, and her daughter watched the eclipse from start to finish. It was very inspiring to watch.

Here are a few pics we got by just holding our phone's camera up to the telescope eyepiece:






Truly a beautiful thing to witness.

I was lucky enough to witness a full solar eclipse over Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in 1991 that lasted over seven minutes long and it was awe inspiring and eerie at the same time. The eclipse itself was beautiful to look at, but as the moon's shadow passed over us the temperature instantly dropped almost 20 degrees Fahrenheit and all the animals around acted as if it was evening. Suddenly you could see all of the stars. Cows in the field nearby went to sleep and the nocturnal animals came out. It became very still and quiet. Seven minutes later as the sun reemerged from behind the moon, roosters started crowing as if it was morning and most of nature seemed quite confused. It was very unsettling to witness.

The experience gave me a much greater understanding of how these events must have terrified witnesses in the past who did not have the luxury of scientific explanation.

No blood moon in the UK until 2015 according to @VirtualAstro (I follow him for planet and ISS sightings....) which disappoints me, it looks beautiful from the pictures.

Edan wrote: No blood moon in the UK until 2015 according to @VirtualAstro (I follow him for planet and ISS sightings....) which disappoints me, it looks beautiful from the pictures.

We had a pretty beautiful golden moon here tonight though... it's not all bad:

Luthien wrote: Were this a primitive era in our existence, we most likely would have seen this as a sign of unrest and doom, as well as a reason to behave irrationally and barbaric against our neighbors. Some still live in that era in their minds, sadly.

There's a romantic part of me that wishes I was in this world. In a time when mythology ruled our lives, we were a much more purposeful species (as a whole). Now, with science ruling the scene, imaginations have subsided and irrational fears are disappearing. We've entered into a time when convenience is God and we do not believe in consequences. Humans have less fear now. We believe we know more than we actually do. And, we really know very little.

I yearn for the day when imagination returns to the masses in a personal way, rather than held by the world's greatest intellectuals. Oftentimes, I think of Bill Gates, Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, Einstein, and all those people as the great imagineers (to borrow Disney terminology). They had no limits in their head, and they used it to help define the world. One thing that made them special was their respect for mystery. They allowed things to remain dark and to be revealed in their own time. Galileo was a Christian.