Nada Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 Tonight is a Super Full Moon This is posited to increase hearing sensitivity beyond the normal circadian night time increased threshold. Apparently its an evolutionary adaptation to save being eaten on hunting nights. This should make your listening extra good tonight above even the normal full moon benefit. The effect increases after midnight. Unfortunately there might be more background noise from animals. Human animals might be particularly noisy tonight. I hope the police and ambulance officers stay safe. Let us know what you hear. 3
GregWormald Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 D*amn--Sunday night and I have to go to bed early to be on time for work tomorrow. When's the next one on a Friday or Saturday? Greg
Darren69 Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 Buggered if I know but I sleep terrible on nights where there is a full moon. Wake up with ripped clothes.....animal parts in my room..... 1
Super Mustud Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 Scoff, yet it is all true. Just ask any nurse.
Darren69 Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 Seriously, I don't doubt it. I saw 11 pm last night, then 2:37pm. then 5 pm and so on. :/
Guest Muon Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 I noticed a feeling of being more hyper.....or is that more neurotic under the full moon.
Super Mustud Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 There are bound to be some posts supporting Rudd on SNA this evening which should prove the dangers of a full moon. 1
Darren69 Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 Yes!! Battlers break free of your chains under the light of the moon and take up arms against the evil well off!!....and don't forget to pay your union fees..or we'll send around an Irish guy to break your legs....and your wifes....
Guest Willow Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 There are bound to be some posts supporting Rudd on SNA this evening which should prove the dangers of a full moon. Three things cannot be long hidden : The sun , the moon and the truth.
Super Mustud Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 Three things cannot be long hidden : The sun , the moon and the truth. Quite. However one of the conundrums of current Australian political life is that Gillard thinks she is a star. 1
davewantsmoore Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 super-moon, super-moon... does whatever a super-moon does.
Nada Posted June 23, 2013 Author Posted June 23, 2013 Jeez, my system sounds incredible tonight. Maybe that psychoacoustic sensitivity nonsense has something in it after all. Anyone else listening tonight? My neighbours sound like theyre on drugs though - I need triple glazing on night like this
Darren69 Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 The Apollo 11 rocket nozzles were Beryllium, maybe that is why the full moon makes my Focal 1038's sound so sweet? Ok, it's the best I could do.....
Guest Muon Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 Can't say I notice any difference with the system sound, but I did get an incredible urge for a pack of Sea Salt chips from the Natural Chip Co :huh:
Darren69 Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 Can't say I notice any difference with the system sound, but I did get an incredible urge for a pack of Sea Salt chips from the Natural Chip Co :huh: I mainly get that after drinking five beers. 1
davewantsmoore Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 Anyone else listening tonight? Of course....
cafe67 Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 When I worked shifts in the emergency services , full moons were a no-no
Guest Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 Just farted in my sleep and gave myself a huge fright - sounded like a bomb had gone off :-) 1
Nada Posted June 23, 2013 Author Posted June 23, 2013 When I worked shifts in the emergency services , full moons were a no-no http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-23/supermoon-to-appear-in-australian-skies-tonight/4774320 Mr Reneke says police and hospital workers say they are always busier on nights when there is a full moon. "People do strange things on a full moon, and this is going to be the biggest full moon of the year, and it's going to be the brightest full moon," he said. "So stand back! It's interesting that people do that, we don't know the reason for it, but it happens every time there's a full moon."
Guest Muon Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 Was just outside having a smoke. It hasn't looked all that big in the sky, but it is a very bright full moon.
davewantsmoore Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 It was HUGE for me when it was down at the horizon early in the night.
ThirdDrawerDown Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 I've enjoyed this thread and normally I'd [insert light-hearted comment here] but this "supermoon" cr*p really bugs me. At first I thought it was lazy journalists, the sort who put a headline in the local paper "Water waste terror!". It's a true headline. A water main broke in the street down the road, during a drought and just after some terrorist thing. A moron journalist obviously knew we were in thrall to words. I digress. Journalists like to sensationalise and the moon's behaviour is a routine phenomenon, much like a king tide, but who-hoo! Supermoon! Just watch the journos wet themselves! I thought it bizarre that people were going out to look at the moon special-like. It's beautiful at all times. Next, I heard someone say that the "supermoon" was a term invented by NASA. In fact, I think it was a journalist on Channel 7 last night. Which got me even more agitated, because the funding at NASA must have cut deep for them to be promoting pseudo-scientific cr*p. So I am grateful for the link you posted, Nada, as it shows the problem is not a science problem but a journalist problem. In particular, journalists who can't tell the difference between astrology and astronomy. Nevertheless, we shall continue to rely on journalists to fuel the policy debate that takes up so many millimetres of our newspapers' content. (And maybe, *koff koff*, when the next generation or two of journalists come along, actual centimetres of newspaper content). TerminologyThe name SuperMoon was coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979, arbitrarily defined as: ...a new or full moon which occurs with the Moon at or near (within 90% of) its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit (perigee). In short, Earth, Moon and Sun are all in a line, with Moon in its nearest approach to Earth.[8] The term supermoon is not used within the astronomical community, which use the term perigee-syzygy or perigee moon.[9] Perigee is the point at which the Moon is closest in its orbit to the Earth, and syzygy is a full or new moon, when the Earth, the Moon and the Sun are aligned. Hence, a supermoon can be regarded as a combination of the two, although they do not perfectly coincide each time. On average, about once a year the moon becomes full within a few hours of perigee.[9]
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