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[-] ctag@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 year ago

s/lunar eclipse/new moon/

Lunar eclipses turn the moon a ruddy red color. New moon (opposite of a full moon) is darker.

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 19 points 1 year ago

This looks more like a solar eclipse

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Good point. And technically, a new moon is only visible during a solar eclipse πŸ‘

[-] ctag@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't know that, neat!

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 15 points 1 year ago

The joke in my part of the world used to be "a black cat in a coal cellar at midnight". That this is also a cat makes me think that the artist might be familiar with that idiom.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago

Mine was "darker than a black cat in a coal mine at night" but I think it's just easier for hicks with an accent to say. Far less racist than the other ways they would say "dark".

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago

Oof. I'd never even thought about it in terms of race, but now you mention it, I have to wonder if I ever heard it in that context.

... and, not that I remember, probably have. sigh

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

Haha yeah sorry... I spent to much time in some backwater places in the south and Midwest parts of America and heard it a whole lot.
Heard it used for other things too... But one use stood out above the rest in my memories.

[-] morphballganon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

How is the moon eclipsing the sun at midnight?

Unless you're at one of the poles

But why would a panther be at one of the poles

[-] dwemthy@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

It's a lunar eclipse, the Earth is eclipsing the moon, preventing it from reflecting the light of the sun

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lunar eclipse usually results in a red moon, since the moon is lit with red light from all the sunsets on Earth simultaneously

It's not in pure shadow, since the Earth's atmosphere acts as a lens and bends some of the light inward towards the moon

[-] dwemthy@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

But it clearly says lunar eclipse

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

But it clearly doesn't depict a lunar eclipse

[-] morphballganon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh right, the clean lines threw me off. Lunar eclipse shadows are much more diffuse.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The darkest thing is the universe, in about 10^10¹²⁰ years (or seconds, or stellar lifespans, it's all the same at this time scale), after every star has died, every black hole dissipated, and every material object quantum tunneled out of existence, when energy is as dispersed as it can possibly be

[-] el_abuelo@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago
[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

And then the concept of "and then" ceases have meaning, when the ratio between the time when there are things and the time when there are no things approaches 0

[-] atlas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

and then put it in a bag and put that bag in my hands, cause i'm ready to eat

[-] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Caught in a hangover from his plentiful dark rum benders

this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2024
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