Damn You Supermoon

Hai there interweb.


You know how I said regularly updated, well, yeah. I'll try to do at least one post a week, not that anybody actually reads this thing, 0 page views so far.

So, recently in my life stuff happened, NOT including the supermoon, damn you supermoon. I missed it, usually I'm on top of these things. I did see a link on facebook, but it lead to some thing about lunacy, by Dr Karl, whom I do admire, BUT I WANTED TO KNOW WHEN THE GODDAMN SUPERMOON WAS. Turned out to be last weekend. :/

This is Redeeming Light, the photographer being Victor R. Caivano. Full rights go to him and the National Geographic website. There are more here and here as well, this was just one of my favorites. 

Perigee moon is the scientific name for the phenomenon which occurs when the moon is at its closest to Earth, because of its elliptical orbit. The other side is apogee. When the moon is perigee it is 50, 000km closer to earth, and when it coincides with the full moon, about once a year, a truly spectacular event is observed.

The moon appeared 14% bigger in the sky, though it was probably hard to tell because of lack of points of reference. This particular moon reached its perigee at 1pm in Australia, and its fullest at 1:36, it still would have been big in the night though. But in the USA the moon reached perigee at 11:34, only to become its fullest one minute later - the timing was almost perfect.  


Also, to clear something up, in many of the pictures the moon appears very large. Thi is a phenomenon called the moon illusion, and it occurs when the moon is seen next to objects on the ground. It is not fully understood by astronomers or phycologists, but I assure you, if you measure the moon at an arm's length whilst it is on the horison, and when it is in the sky, you will get the same measurement.


Ok, back to life, yeah, I really do love that stuff.




Recently I turned in a scientific report, I'll post it when I get it back, it is called: 

Does the Temperature of Honey Affect how Fast it Flows?

In fact, it was during the reasearch for this report that I decided on the name of this blog, I found it here

In fact, one of the major differences between styles of mashed potatoes is the viscosity of the starchy mass: some people like their potatoes running and teeming with milk and butter (they are fans of low-viscosity potatoes), while others like their potatoes drier and stickier, so they almost crack rather than flow (these people are devoted to high-viscosity potatoes).

these people are devoted to high-viscosity potatoes

devoted to high-viscosity potatoes

The name for my last blog post came from my physics textbook (yep I'm in year 8 and I have a physics textbook, don't ask why) If I can't think of a name I'll probably get another one from there.


On a completley unrelated topic, we have been doing Animal Farm in english, and talking about totalitarianism, Hitler and the Russian Communist Revoloution alot, you know, communisim could have worked if it weren't for unconciously power-hungry people. Anyway, we had to find a few book covers of Animal Farm, and analyse the visual text. I found this:

Yum, Napoleon with blood on his mouth, fat Napoleon, tyrant Napoleon.
This brilliance is produced by Lucy Hexter, on her blog Gin Mouse Art, and all credit goes to her, in this brilliance, as well as others she has produced.

Ok, goodbye interweb, see you again soon