What to know about blue supermoons:
- They literally mean nothing.
- The change is imperceptible to everyone.
- Expect useless clickbait slop about it until it passes.
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2024
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- What? No. It means
- An extra and extended full moon is definitely perceptible.
- It being life itself.
Can’t we just admire the skies? The moon is one of the things untouched by light pollution.
A blue moon is just two full moons in a month. It really doesn't mean anything.
And I find that cool
That's fine, but it's still basically meaningless. Months are entirely a human invention that don't have any importance in the way the universe works.
i like meaning
What meaning? The moon is on a 28 day cycle that regularly overlaps with a 30 day month cycle. There is no meaning behind that.
It’s called blind faith. It’s how we survive. It’s how we create fun, man.
Blind faith in what, though? You keep throwing out meaningless sayings without actually saying anything. You say you find it cool, but not why you find it cool. You say it has meaning, but you don't say what meaning. You say it's called blind faith, but you don't say blind faith in what.
You may as well ask why we like to lay down on the grass and watch the sunset and why we find that beautiful. It’s subjective, and I disagree with cynicism, that’s all.
No one's asking nor wondering why you find looking at things in the sky beautiful.
They're asking why you're ascribing meaning to an arbitrary number of days. Months aren't subjective, they're arbitrary.
because i like meaning. for the same reason i find looking at things in the sky beautiful.
I like to see the supertides, but it may not be fun in some seaside communities.
The media empires love being able to recycle these kinds of stories and it drives engagement with the people who have short memories.
Oh good, another story about the same moon looking the same way it has for a billion years... but this time it's called a Hunter's moon instead of a Mother's moon or some meaningless shit. Supermoons happen literally 4 times a year. Blue Supermoons are 6% of all full moons, so they aren't even all that special.