popo weenie Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 no bullshit ,does the full moon affect people?come on mr. mouse answer that pleaseand in what way does it have if any affects on you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdy Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 my dad defends criminals for a living.. growing up, i kid you not, on a night of a full moon, the phone would ring off the hook with collect calls. weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im going home Donny Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 well we are mostly made up of water....so with that in mind and the state my mind finds itself in during the full blown...imo a big yuppers... Last night was beautifull...my back yard and the woods looked as though a giant spot light was shining down...my giant black dog was fully visable gallopping through the woods doing his impersonation of the Black Stallion...gotta like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 Go readhttp://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_337.htmlfor a debunking of the alleged full moon effect.Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im going home Donny Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 ...oh Cecil...I'm not convinced but I believe in all kinds of stuff that the Cecils of the world could debunk with logic. To each there own though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve from Cleveland Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 I love the last line of this page... I'm gonna have to start using this heads I win, tails don't count. Case closed. SfC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popo weenie Posted October 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 well we are mostly made up of water....so with that in mind and the state my mind finds itself in during the full blown...imo a big yuppers...Last night was beautifull...my back yard and the woods looked as though a giant spot light was shining down...my giant black dog was fully visable gallopping through the woods doing his impersonation of the Black Stallion...gotta like it. my dog done the same thing ,something there// full moon i guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenSeasJim Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 Just some extra information about the moon.The Moon IllusionThe moon illusion is one of the most famous of all illusions. Stated simply, the full moon, when just above the horizon, appears much larger than when it is overhead. Yet the moon, a quarter of a million miles away from the earth, always subtends the same angle wherever it is in the sky, roughly 0.5 degrees.The first problem is for photographers. A wonderful picture presents itself, with the full moon just rising above a spectacular horizon. Click, the picture is taken. Yet the result is disappointing. The moon seems much smaller in the photograph than it did when viewed with the naked eye. Even professional photographers fall for this one. Yet on a normal lens, 50mm on a 35mm camera, the field of view is around 50 degrees, and the width of the moon, subtending an angle of 0.5 degrees, will be 100th of the width of the photo! Many photographs that you see in magazines, containing both a moon and a landscape, will be composites. The landscape will be taken with a normal lens, the moon taken with a telephoto lens, to get a bigger image.How does this illusion come about? Since the moon always subtends an angle of 0.5 degrees, the image on the retina must always be the same. Clearly the problem is one of interpretation. One simple experiment shows this to be so. A full moon just above the horizon will not appear so large to the human eye if a piece of paper is held up to that eye with a hole in it, so that only the moon can be seen through the hole and not the horizon. If the other eye is open at the same time, viewing both the moon and the horizon, the two eyes will each see different sized moons!The explanation is believed to be as follows. We 'know' that a cloud that is overhead will be larger than when it moves towards the horizon. And an airplane that is a mere speck on the horizon becomes large when it is overhead. And we are all familiar with standing under a tree which seems enormous, yet at a couple of hundred paces seems insignificant. It would seem that so much of our world is interpreted this way that we are ill-equipped to cope with an object like the moon, that subtends the same angle at the eye, whatever position it occupies in the sky. And so our brain 'interprets' the image that it 'sees', and tells us that the moon is larger than it really is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
can-o-phish Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 Ahhh, full moon. Must've missed this on the ol'calender but certainly helps to shed a little light on this weekend's happenings ...hope y'all had mystical and crazy shenaningans come your way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 I was certainly pretty demented on Friday night, but the moon was only icing on the cake . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 my mom worked 200 years in the mother and baby unit - full moons bring out babies in a BIG WAY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asparagus Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 my mom worked 200 years in the mother and baby unit...What's her secret? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gateaux Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 I was going to ask the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 ah i dunno - she's just spunky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
can-o-phish Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 Jumped the gun I guess...full moon is TONIGHT and absolutely no question as to where I'll be Orbiting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popo weenie Posted October 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 my mom worked 200 years in the mother and baby unit - full moons bring out babies in a BIG WAYfull moon tonightsuppose the prisoners at the renous maximum prison will have another little battle like throwing chairs all over the place n they get real bad full moon time, glad i,m not a guardhonest to god the full moon does bring babies into the world no kidding,some nice tonight i am a moon person ha ha not to moon people thoughyou get bloated also ,like you put on extra weighti really enjoyed the moon articalshappy moonen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 Whatever else can be said about the full moon, it's casting its light beautifully over our patch of the woods tonight, and I've been enjoying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 The full moon is just reflecting more light from the sun. I don't see why everyone freaks out about it's 'magical' effects. It's not closer nor bigger. It sure makes for a nice evening outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 it was pretty damn nice though - and it DID look way bigger when it was close to the horizon for sure.it is more full on facing us though bouche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarahbelle Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 I'm sure it makes people a bit luny excuse the pun. The moon was Orange here! maybe it's just the polution but it sure was pretty I love the moon very much. We are very effected by it's cycles each month, esp. women. I try to pay attention, I can usually guess when it's a full moon all U have to do is pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 i love how when you are on the other end of the world, and the moon is half full, it's not half full like left or right, but instead it's top or bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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