To: Reaganite Republican
Not to nitpick but a lunation is the time between full moons. It is a bit more than 29-1/2 days. Since February is 28 or 29 days long it is possible to have a February with no full moon but this must happen more often than once in all of recorded history. I would hazard a guess that it must happen at least once every 400 years.
The rest are pretty cool though
6 posted on
05/24/2011 4:35:47 AM PDT by
muir_redwoods
(Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
To: muir_redwoods
Yep, you’re instincts are right. (Why is it always the calendar/celestial “facts” in lists like these that belie common sense, and in the end, undermine the veracity of the entire list?
According to http://lunaf.com/english/moon-phases/lunar-calendar-2018/, February 2018 won’t have a full moon either, meaning, there will be two blue moons (January & March 2018) in that year.
As a matter of statistics, this should occur once every 29 to 30 years, not taking into account the effect leap years have on it.
14 posted on
05/24/2011 5:13:49 AM PDT by
GreenAccord
(Bacon Akbar!)
To: muir_redwoods
i did like the kneecaps fact. I did not know that!
BUT, people are currently domesticating the fox. No, they are not dogs or wolves so it does count as a ‘new’ domestic animal.
28 posted on
05/24/2011 8:05:39 AM PDT by
Marie
(Obama seems to think that Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since Camp David, not King David)
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