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 ...
No earthshine 24/7.
They’d probably start complaining about the sun though...just give them time. Some people can’t help but complain.
“Matter of fact it’s all dark!”
Without is restraining gravitational effect our orbit would be chaotic with parts of the planet being under a sheet of ice or hundreds of feet of water. But when it comes to taking bullets for us that would be Jupiter. Jupiter is our cosmic shortstop. Life on the planet would have come to an end in 1994 by comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 if it weren't for the real "Big Guy''.
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