I remind people that the moon is always "full"

[BSdetect]

You just can't see it all at times.

[MineralMan]

1. On an early morning road trip across Central California,

I once watched the full moon setting as the sun rose. Flat country. It was an amazing sight, and one I have only seen once in my life.

[Heddi]

2. The Cashier at target on Friday

told me that she didn't like this eclipse business ONE BIT AT ALL (she was probably about 70+ years old) and was doing reading up on this eclipse. At first she wasn't going to pay any attention but after reading about it, she came to the conclusion that nothing good was going to come of it and hoped that it would be cloudy like the weatherman said so that way the eclipse wouldn't happen, after all.

:-/

[gratuitous]

4. Indeed

And why does the eclipse have to happen during the workday? Why can't it be at night, when decent people are all sleeping and we won't have to listen to all this fuss?

It's almost laughable, but Mrs. gratuitous was stitching quilts with some fine old ladies at a national gathering of our denomination a few years ago. The talk somehow touched on political matters, and one woman at the quilt frame announced that all this global warming nonsense was just a hoax, and if there were holes in the ozone layer, her husband had assured her that it was because of all the rockets we'd shot into space back in the 1960s. She was dead serious.

I probably don't have to remind DUers, but these people vote.

[LanternWaste]

3. I remind people the sky is not really blue.

I remind people the sky is not really blue. But I think reminding people that for no real reason and with no real consequence is little more than an accurate example of my own desire to appear clever.

[world wide wally]

5. Science quiz:

If the moon rises at the same time the Sun is setting. What is the phase of the moon?

[Raven]

6. Do you think Trump knows this? :-)

[delisen]

7. I like to be reminded.

I would like a new lexicon in which to speak about things celestial-not to replace the vocabulary we have but to juxtapose.

The sun rises , the sun sets-such an earthbound vision. It is poetic and I don't want to replace it but I want to be able to speak in terms of things celestial as though I were born know the science.

[Brother Buzz]

8. What happens during a lunar eclipse?