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Astronomers hate the Moon and want to destroy it
Metro ^ | October 12, 2023 | Katherine Fidler

Posted on 10/12/2023 4:30:57 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA

The Moon has been a source of wonder, inspiration, comfort and light throughout humanity’s existence.

Viewed as a goddess by some, a god by others, it is connected to wisdom and intuition by Pagans, to the divine feminine in spirituality.

And astronomers want it gone.

Not all astronomers, but some.

Why? Because it’s too bright. While for many of us a full Moon is a striking addition to the night sky, for astronomers the bright light is a blinding one.

‘I hate the Moon,’ says Dr Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. ‘The Moon is evil, because we complain about how bright all these new satellites are, but the Moon is the brightest satellite of the Earth by far.

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: astronomy; jonathanmcdowell; moon; ntsa; science
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Don’t blame me. I’m just posting it. 😂
1 posted on 10/12/2023 4:30:57 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: ConservativeInPA

The next new moon is in 2 days. They need to get busy.


2 posted on 10/12/2023 4:34:43 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: fretzer

Good luck. I’d like to see them try.


3 posted on 10/12/2023 4:35:18 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I say: Thank GOD for the moon! Don’t they realize how many ‘bullets’ the moon has taken for the Earth over its time?


4 posted on 10/12/2023 4:37:37 PM PDT by Kartographer (“We MutualBetter ly Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: ConservativeInPA
The moon is a racist, homophobic, misogynist, climate denying POR*.

Piece of Rock

5 posted on 10/12/2023 4:38:02 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I guess they want to get rid of the earth’s atmosphere too, i.e. clouds and such.


6 posted on 10/12/2023 4:38:18 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: workerbee

The moon is white.


7 posted on 10/12/2023 4:38:30 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Muslims in America must immediately return to their nations of origin to fight Islamic extremism.)
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To: Kartographer

Exactly! If you destroy the moon, you’ll kill billions of people! This environmentalist cult needs to be abolished, once and for all!


8 posted on 10/12/2023 4:39:17 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Maybe they should do astronomy during the day, when there’s no moon to bother them.


9 posted on 10/12/2023 4:39:23 PM PDT by chrisser (I lost my vaccine card in a tragic boating accident.)
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To: Kartographer

Maybe they want their version of “shoot the moon”.


10 posted on 10/12/2023 4:39:42 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: TheDon

Here’s a better idea: get rid of the environmentalists!


11 posted on 10/12/2023 4:39:48 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Well, there ya go!


12 posted on 10/12/2023 4:41:12 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: ConservativeInPA
Neal Stephenson wrote a novel SevenEves, about such an occurrence. Except for the wiping humanity out part it was pretty encouraging.
13 posted on 10/12/2023 4:41:37 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ConservativeInPA

14 posted on 10/12/2023 4:46:49 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Attention terrorists! has Joe Biden forgot to fund your cell? get in on the $$$ giveaway.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Once in awhile it’s blue


15 posted on 10/12/2023 4:55:37 PM PDT by Dragonspirit (CNN is the enemy. Ashli Babbitt is the hero.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

That time of the month?


16 posted on 10/12/2023 4:55:55 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: Dragonspirit

Or blood red. The rest of the time the moon is white and racist.


17 posted on 10/12/2023 5:01:08 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Muslims in America must immediately return to their nations of origin to fight Islamic extremism.)
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18 posted on 10/12/2023 5:01:58 PM PDT by montag813
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Well according to a lot of the ‘flat earthers’, there is no moon. It is merely a projection on the plastic dome that covers the earth, put up by NASA to keep the taxpayer money flowing to their agency


19 posted on 10/12/2023 5:09:23 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: ConservativeInPA
Ignite the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be a moon shattering kaboom.

20 posted on 10/12/2023 5:12:55 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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