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Elegarth

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    Pets(and why the world is a better place because of them)

    in The Lounge

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    What would be the alternative?

    A complicated process where we learn anirmals should be treated with dignity and responsibly, where people would stop buying and selling dogs like if they were candy, where only responsible people would adopt them and treat them as parts of their family, and where we slowly reach a descent population, hand in hand with our capacity to take care of them (after all, it was US who reared them) and responsible sterilization and care

    The TWP Astronomy Thread

    in The Lounge

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    Actually when most people say supermoon, they mean the mythical thing that gets passed around facebook all the time.  I got so tired of pasting links to explain the reality and telling people it's not what they think, that I just ignore the posts about it now.  You would think that after so many hoaxes about it, people might start thinking it strange that no one has seen one of these enormous moons before.  Or the companion hoax that says Mars will appear the same size as the moon.

     

    Makes me want to facepalm hard enough to see stars...

    Basically this. As I had explained to several people in RL, if you want to see the moon bigger, go to a beach and catch the moon rise or the moon down...The "super" moon we had can still be seen through the hole on a straw and while I love astronomical observation and people getting connected to it, I also think they should know the right non-mythical non-magical non-made-up facts

    Telegram of the Day

    in Office of The Delegate

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    Horrified that Darkesia has created propaganda against innocent challengers to the Delegacy to convince the members of their region to continue Darkesia's term,

    I feel the word "Horrified" just lost its old dark strength and has become a sissy word thanks to this :(

    The TWP Astronomy Thread

    in The Lounge

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    As Neil deGrasse says

    “The Moon’s orbit around the Earth is not a perfect circle,” Tyson explained. “Sometimes it’s closer, sometimes it’s farther away. Every month, there is a moment when it is closest. Occasionally, that moment when it is closest coincidences with a full moon. People are calling that a super moon, but there’s super half moons. Every month one of those phases is the closest. I don’t hear people saying like ‘super crescent, super half moon.’”

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