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Whickwithy

I may have a couple of months before Springs has sprung.

serenity52

The spring has finally snapped!

Whickwithy

Wow! The birds seem to be indicating that spring really is on its way! I hope they are right but, really, before the end of February? In Maine?

serenity52

We are STILL stuck in a Siberian hellhole over here. I'm more white than a bottle of milk. It's just scandalous! I need to top up my tan. Wearing fakebake in this weather will look dodgy. I don't want to look like a piece of streaky bacon!

Whickwithy

We've had a few days of just awesome weather. Of course, until mid-april there is still a very good chance of a blizzard or two. That's okay, though. Blizzards in March and April hardly count. I could just about wait them out without lifting a snow shovel. Too bad I love flinging snow.

Whickwithy

I've just been pondering the full moon, once again. I mean, all of the suspicions about it bringing out the craziness seem viable to me. I can't count the times that I've been in an odd mood and gone out and found that it was a full moon.

There is one fact about the full moon that is never mentioned that seems a likely candidate to make things a bit odd on Earth. The moon is essentially on the opposite side of Earth from the Sun, each pulling in opposite directions on the Earth. That seems like it could stir things up a bit..

Whickwithy

I was doing my usual studying for a not terribly important reason. Anyways, I discovered that the historical temperature lows turn on a dime just after Spring Equinox. Before March 20, plenty of days in deep negative and, then, pop up to the single digits almost immediately. I can't figure out why that would be true.

serenity52 · Post edited by serenity52 at 2018-03-04 16:18:45

Interesting mini documentary on the purpose of the moon by the BBC.

www.bbc.com/future/story/20140219-do-we-really-need-the-moon

I also found this piece of info which is really fascinating at phys.org

One of the most subtle effects from the moon is what it has done to life itself. Nocturnal animals behave differently depending on where the moon is in the sky during its 29.5-day cycle. When the moon is full and bright, prey fish stay hidden in the reef, when they'd be most visible.

Amazingly, lions are less likely to hunt during the full moon, and researchers have found that lion attacks on humans happen 10 days after the full moon, and many bats will be less active during the full moon.

With so many species on Earth affected by the moon, it's reasonable to think that there would have been a different evolutionary direction for life on Earth over the eons, and humans might never have evolved.

Whickwithy

I know, right? That's some cool stuff going on to puzzle over.

Did you know that we are going to lose the moon one day. I think it moves like a centimeter a year (century?) further away?

Thanks for all of the distractions today, S. I needed it badly.

serenity52

Yeah by about 4 centimetres or inches per year. It will still be visible in our lifetime. The sun will have to have swallowed the Earth before it takes effect.

Whickwithy

Do you think we have time for cuppa?

Urban_Tribesman

Yeah. I read that due to the regression of the moons orbit, in the future it will no longer cover the Suns disc and solar eclipses will become a thing of the past.
Don't think it's going to bother any of us though!

serenity52

Whickwithy said:
Do you think we have time for cuppa?

Hell yeah! Every cup of tea under the sun 50,000 times over. Green tea. Fruit tea. Herbal tea. With loads of biscuits too. My place or yours? :-h

Whickwithy

My place please. Then, again, we are about to have a real nor'easter with all of its attendant havoc. Nor'easter makes me think of another common phrase in these parts. Downeast. Cute phrase describing one of the most wonderful places where you have to go as far east as you can in Maine and, then, down. Very, very picturesque in an unintended way. In other words, it wasn't planned.

Whickwithy

Anyone ever heard the phrase "dumpster fire"?

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