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lunar eclipse
28 Aug 2007 08:09 pmNever, ever watch the damn thing with a pair of binoculars.
Not only because one and a half hours later, your biceps have gone on strike and your fingers are starting to gangrenise (not a word) from lack of circulation (due to being stuck up in the air for so long).
Not only because you look like some perve, standing in your backyard with binoculars in the direction of your neighbour's toilet window.
Not only because that "bloody red" hue due to diffraction of light by Earth's atmosphere was totally nullified due to Sydney's light pollution and the awesome magnification of your binoculars, which somehow cancels out the diffraction effect (no, I'm serious, the moon looks redder without the binoculars!)
But because you're struck by the underwhelming sensation that...
Damn, it's like, just, a sad little lump of rock.
It's all grey and pimply and depressingly spherical and never would have had so many serenades sung in its name if it weren't, like, the biggest lump of light in the night sky.
And the fact that said lump of light changes to a boring routine that only bored physicists can be bothered working out.
Some things look better from a distance. LOL.
Not only because one and a half hours later, your biceps have gone on strike and your fingers are starting to gangrenise (not a word) from lack of circulation (due to being stuck up in the air for so long).
Not only because you look like some perve, standing in your backyard with binoculars in the direction of your neighbour's toilet window.
Not only because that "bloody red" hue due to diffraction of light by Earth's atmosphere was totally nullified due to Sydney's light pollution and the awesome magnification of your binoculars, which somehow cancels out the diffraction effect (no, I'm serious, the moon looks redder without the binoculars!)
But because you're struck by the underwhelming sensation that...
Damn, it's like, just, a sad little lump of rock.
It's all grey and pimply and depressingly spherical and never would have had so many serenades sung in its name if it weren't, like, the biggest lump of light in the night sky.
And the fact that said lump of light changes to a boring routine that only bored physicists can be bothered working out.
Some things look better from a distance. LOL.
