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???? Anyone notice the UPSIDE DOWN MOON last night ?????

 
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01/28/2012 05:13 AM
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being near the equator the smiley face moon is normal it eventually changes to a frown.


If its off the timeline it could be that the moon's orbit is wobbling off course?

What determines the path in which the moon orbits trhe earth?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1192365


It's a wet moon and typically like that in the winter because the earth is tilted away from the sun.

If it is still a horizontal crescent in the summer we know we have a problem.
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01/28/2012 05:21 AM
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Re: ???? Anyone notice the UPSIDE DOWN MOON last night ?????
Your all of your heads.
To appease everyone about the explanation why the crescent moon is at the bottom.
If you all have a look at the ancient texts of cultures, especially the ancient egyptian culture.
You will see the crescent moon at the bottom in some of there texts.

In most religious texts the crescent moon is depicted at the bottom.
So if they viewed it in this position...it's been happening for thousands of years.

Regardless of my own explanation on why this happens which will be discarded..you can not refute the ancients seeing the moon in this positon.
Case closed.

Being summer here in australia...the cresant moon at the moment is tilted on it's left side facing the setting sun.
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01/28/2012 05:23 AM
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Are you on medication you american arsehole because if your not then you ought to be fucking sad idiotic american the land of fucking nutters.
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01/28/2012 05:55 AM
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Re: ???? Anyone notice the UPSIDE DOWN MOON last night ?????
It's a wet moon and typically like that in the winter because the earth is tilted away from the sun.

If it is still a horizontal crescent in the summer we know we have a problem.
 Quoting: Prisoner of Technology


You are correct!

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
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Re: ???? Anyone notice the UPSIDE DOWN MOON last night ?????
being near the equator the smiley face moon is normal it eventually changes to a frown.


If its off the timeline it could be that the moon's orbit is wobbling off course?

What determines the path in which the moon orbits trhe earth?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1192365


It's a wet moon and typically like that in the winter because the earth is tilted away from the sun.

If it is still a horizontal crescent in the summer we know we have a problem.
 Quoting: Prisoner of Technology

bsflagbsflag
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 9734262


Nah, you're b/s dumb dumb.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
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01/28/2012 05:59 AM
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Re: ???? Anyone notice the UPSIDE DOWN MOON last night ?????
It's not earths shadow that you're seeing. Take a picture next time, to determine the shadows diameter. The second shadow of the FULL MOON = THE SLEEPER HAS AWAKENED!!!
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It's not earths shadow that you're seeing. Take a picture next time, to determine the shadows diameter. The second shadow of the FULL MOON = THE SLEEPER HAS AWAKENED!!!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8366156


You know what I did notice tonight that I thought was odd about the moon was that, even though it was a perfect crescent, the 'shadow' or eclipse of the rest I was actually able to see, I don't remember this being so. I always remembered it being a thick, dark blackness. But now, it was like a translucent black overlay with a yellow/white color.

Was odd.

I've also noticed the moon has been red a lot lately when it is close to the horizon.
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01/28/2012 06:27 AM
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I saw it! I was standing on my head last night gazing at the sky, and I totally saw the upside down moon!
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did your face turned blue?
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01/28/2012 06:28 AM
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Yes, it was strange over here too..
The earth was higher than normal, leaving room for the sunlight to only reach the lower part of the moon.
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I live in FL too.. Yep the moon is fucked.
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I'm just sayin' something is not right, that's all.
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Yup ohyeah something's not right at all.. with the educational system in the United States.
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Re: ???? Anyone notice the UPSIDE DOWN MOON last night ?????
Your all of your heads.
To appease everyone about the explanation why the crescent moon is at the bottom.
If you all have a look at the ancient texts of cultures, especially the ancient egyptian culture.
You will see the crescent moon at the bottom in some of there texts.

In most religious texts the crescent moon is depicted at the bottom.
So if they viewed it in this position...it's been happening for thousands of years.

Regardless of my own explanation on why this happens which will be discarded..you can not refute the ancients seeing the moon in this positon.
Case closed.

Being summer here in australia...the cresant moon at the moment is tilted on it's left side facing the setting sun.
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Sorry, but that's simply BS. What the ancients saw was simply Saturn's rings illuminated by the Sun:
[link to saturndeathcult.com]

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01/28/2012 06:53 AM
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As the sumarian tablets show, when the moon "smiles" then the anunnakis comes to earth in theier ships, thier close, apparently. The question is, are the stories about the anunnakis true ?


Check out the picture
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01/28/2012 07:12 AM
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I to am in Fl. and saw that smile. I just googled phases of the moon and include a calender of what the moon is supposed to be for each night this month. No where does it show what is really happening.

[link to www.moonconnection.com]
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I to am in Fl. and saw that smile. I just googled phases of the moon and include a calender of what the moon is supposed to be for each night this month. No where does it show what is really happening.

[link to www.moonconnection.com]
 Quoting: sailormon 2603161


The moon looks different depending where you are on earth, in Australia its fucking upside down, no shit...


Get a brain moran.
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I to am in Fl. and saw that smile. I just googled phases of the moon and include a calender of what the moon is supposed to be for each night this month. No where does it show what is really happening.

[link to www.moonconnection.com]
 Quoting: sailormon 2603161


The pictures on that site are obviously just for illustration purposes.
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Listen!

I'm in Florida and i can most definately vouch that the moon is totally different than it was. A SMILE, yes, not in the same position i have witnessed it to be for all my years on this Earth.

If you think i'm crazy, great. I dont care.

IT IS DEFINATELY IN THE WRONG POSITION.

Stop the denial, all of you who think this is a joke. It is NOT a joke.

huffy
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Listen!

I'm in Florida and i can most definately vouch that the moon is totally different than it was. A SMILE, yes, not in the same position i have witnessed it to be for all my years on this Earth.

If you think i'm crazy, great. I dont care.

IT IS DEFINATELY IN THE WRONG POSITION.

Stop the denial, all of you who think this is a joke. It is NOT a joke.

huffy
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Its me, Natasha77 i forgot to sign in.
SPEAK UP. SILENCE IS DEADLY!

I am currently experiencing life at several WTFs per hour.
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Listen!

I'm in Florida and i can most definately vouch that the moon is totally different than it was. A SMILE, yes, not in the same position i have witnessed it to be for all my years on this Earth.

If you think i'm crazy, great. I dont care.

IT IS DEFINATELY IN THE WRONG POSITION.

Stop the denial, all of you who think this is a joke. It is NOT a joke.

huffy
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2849470


I don't think that you are crazy, just stupid.

[link to i44.tinypic.com]

Depending on where you are the moon looks different, that is because we are not on some flat stationary plane that always looks out to the moon at a perfect 90 degree horizontal position...
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01/28/2012 07:49 AM
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I have never seen a Cheshire moon in my whole life until last year. Many on here say it is normal, but I don't think so.

It is so funny that anytime someone brings up something about the moon...the flying monkeys come out of the woodwork. Good luck with this one OP!
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Re: ???? Anyone notice the UPSIDE DOWN MOON last night ?????
It's normal, but it seems that people are only now paying attention to the moon because of all the threads on GLP about it.

It's called "field rotation" (look it up).

Think of it like this - if the moon's due south of you, and in a "half moon phase", then the terminator (line between shadow and lit halves) is pretty much vertical. It runs from the moon's north pole to its south pole. It also lines up roughly with the earth's north-south axis, which also lines up with you facing south, and north behind you.

Now, if you look east, as the moon rises, then north is to your left, and south to your right. The moon is still lined up with the north-south axis, so the terminator line can be nearly horizontal.

The same happens as you watch it set in the west. North is now to your right, and south to your left, so again the terminator is horizontal, and it lines up with the earth's axis.

The same applies to all the other moon phases, so you get rotated crescent moons, gibbous moons etc. Look up "wet moon", "dry moon", cheshire moon" - there are lots of references and images.

It's not the moon that's rotated - it's you!!

Another thing to think about - when you see it, rotated one way or the other, or due south and straight, somebody, somewhere else in the world is seeing it in a different orientation. It's the same moon, so if different people see it in different ways, it must be to do with their positions on the earth, not something the moon is doing (otherwise everyone would see it the same way at the same time).

This has been written about in lots of cultures, all the way from the ancient egyptians over 4,000 years ago through Shakespeare and into modern books. In fact, even 50 years ago people wouldn't have given it a second though because they saw the moon regularly and were used to seeing these effects. Unfortunately people hardly ever look at the skies nowadays (even though the moon is easily visible in light polluted cities) so all knowledge about how things move in the skies is being lost.

It's a shame really, as the skies are fascinating to watch, even if you don't get deeply into astronomy. There's always something to look at if people would only take the time and learn about it, instead of assuming something they haven't noticed before is "wrong"...
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01/28/2012 08:04 AM
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looked completely normal here in Massachusetts last night.
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01/28/2012 08:10 AM
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A picture I took of Venus and the Moon on wednesdayhf

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As the sumarian tablets show, when the moon "smiles" then the anunnakis comes to earth in theier ships, thier close, apparently. The question is, are the stories about the anunnakis true ?


Check out the picture
[link to www.google.com]
 Quoting: hAppymoon 9736669


I do not know, but.. weird feeling : I asked to a ''higher being'' what was that sound I was hearing, I saw in a vision some weird long elliptic thing, and in head the world ''extraterrestrials''... And with your story and the fact it happened on the same night, I did a link :O

oh well... alien11alienshipalienshipalienshipufo56
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Oh boy, if you people would know the truth......

I have connections at the headquarters of the ESA. They are having 24 shifts since the explosion on the moon in 2009. Something unexpected happened during that event. Something the scientists all over the world are breaking their heads over. I cannot give to much info because my life and the lives of my family would be at risk. All I can say is that the optical illusion of the moon being 5 times bigger when it is near the horizon is the key to all this....
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SRSLY you fucking dozy "moon flippers" are thicker than a very thick thing dipped in thick pig shit.

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LOLOLOL!

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Dont it rotate as transits from one side of the sky to the other...just a thought
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It was cloudy here but my cousin texted us and said "holy shit look at the moon!"
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Re: ???? Anyone notice the UPSIDE DOWN MOON last night ?????
I know, I know, people are going to say it's always been in that position--

like a "smile"-- but I don't buy that.
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Too bad.
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It doesn't matter what you "buy," the facts are the facts. Field rotation is a normal phenomenon.
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Re: ???? Anyone notice the UPSIDE DOWN MOON last night ?????
I saw this on NYE this year in Hawaii and freaked out, but brushed it off as due to latitude, unfortunately I'm back in Texas and it's still upside down. I agree with rest of the folks, I'm 39 years old and an avid sky gazer, never noticed or saw this before. Must be due to earth or moons orbit, but strangely noticeable!!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 876138


Recently moved to Dallas, and noticed it last night: big bright, low in the horizon and a perfect bowl-like smile.

Where I lived before was a much higher latitude, so it looked different, and this definitely caught my eye, but there's nothing wrong with it...

Some good photos of this phase:

[link to www.cultcase.com]

[link to theragblog.blogspot.com]

Here's the best explaination of why this occurs:

[link to www.usatoday.com]
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Re: ???? Anyone notice the UPSIDE DOWN MOON last night ?????
I to am in Fl. and saw that smile. I just googled phases of the moon and include a calender of what the moon is supposed to be for each night this month. No where does it show what is really happening.

[link to www.moonconnection.com]
 Quoting: sailormon 2603161


Lunar phase calendars only show you the phase, not the effect of field rotation. Field rotation varies depending on your location on the ground and on the position of the moon in the sky (in alt-az).
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