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"Thank you, NASA"
~ Matt Damon et al.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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We haven't day one since Thursday, and todays is a cracker!
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html[^]
I just didn't want you to miss it. The only downside is I can't find a high res version for use as a desktop - 1200x800 is the highest I can find. 
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No problem: I would not have posted this as I usually only post deep space images unless it is something very special. The moon is not special. 
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: The moon is not special
But..but..the blood moon is the harbinger of the Apocralypse! Murican Sky Pixie Fanciers said so! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: But..but..the blood moon is the harbinger of the Apocralypse! Murican Sky Pixie Fanciers said so!
Haha.
Asimov postulated that life exists on this planet specifically because of the presence of the moon[^] so, I suppose, in that respect, it could be considered a tad important but it is just a ball of rock that makes up the binary system upon which we find ourselves trapped.
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I've seen other speculations that the presence of the moon is directly responsible for life evolving in the direction it did: for starters it slowed the early Earth's rotation from a 12 hour day to it's current value. With that short a day, temperatures would be wildly different, plants would be very different, and the weather would be a lot less regular and (semi)predictable. That we would have evolved to appreciate it is very unlikely!
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The moon actually protects us from numerous large objects that might've otherwise hit Earth.
The moon is a great shield.
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newton.saber wrote: The moon is a great shield.
It needs to be bigger...[^]
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I don't know - it sure looks like a UFO to me. 
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Do Grammarians have a lot of comma sense?
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Only when it comes to their colons.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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This raises an interesting question... What is a semi-colonoscopy?
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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That's when the patient runs away when he sees the size of the camera.
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Or when they see the apostrophe and decide they can only afford a smaller test.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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No, they either question what you're doing or accept it: period.
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My dear old great grammarian thought so.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: My dear old great grammarian
Isn't that spelt grand mammary? 
What do I know though, I vos never reilly gud at uddergraffy.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I think you have to stop it.
Full stop it.
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As commas have nothing to do with grammar, I'd say not! (Yes, I am in the mood for raining on parades. How did you know?)
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Pull
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Pull the plug ugly American woman in Redd Foxxy lady sings the blue Bayou country joe and the fish story in your eyes crying in the raindrops keep fallin' on my head eastbound and down in the boon Pickin' up the Pieces of April showers bring Mayflower Pilgrimm's fairy tail on the donkey Kong meets Godzill wind that blows no good grief Charlie Brown cowcatcher in the Rye Whiskey River of Darkness Monster mash potato famine at workin' in a coal miner's daughter of the middle border ruffiansel and Gretel push and pull
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Sonnet, published under the CCCOPL (CodeProject Creative CopyLeft Open Poetic License)
NASA discovered that red Mars has waters;
I suspect its tears of aliens' daughters,
and, I wouldn't bet that Mars is all wet
since it hasn't quite been announced yet
And, if Mars' all chock full of moisture,
why not archaeobacteria in dank pastures?
But, for those who want to migrate there,
I suggest you take an arsenal to prepare
for whatever else hides in craters there
Take atomics, and rocket-launch grenades,
take deadly henbane and toxic nightshade,
take death-metal, rap, facebook, twitter
Take Boy-George, Bono, with Gary Glitter,
enough drugs to obliviate feeling bitter
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
modified 28-Sep-15 11:29am.
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REVERSE THE POLARITY OF THE NEUTRON FLOW!
Oh, sorry, the whovian in me thought it was a Doctor Who reference
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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I read "Spiders from Mars", which reminds me of an excellent 70's album by Mr Bowie
while (true) {
continue;
}
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Is that water safe for drinking?!?!
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