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[tree_and_leaf]

The moon out there is as big as a penny, and somewhat copper coloured. My American flatmates, especially the ones from the no-drinking and modesty rule college are discussing whether or not this means the apocalypse.

Personally, I think

(a): if that's supposed to be blood coloured, I'm not impressed. God, however, is not an artistic slouch. This suggests there's some other reason.

(b): I'm not going to get really worried unless a wolf eats the sun...

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[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

A few years I was in Denmark, driving around the island with a friend one pleasant April evening. Having been terribly excited by seeing a tiny cliff (Denmark doesn’t do cliffs) we crested a (small) hill at dusk and saw ... something. It was enormous. Not the merely large moon of a month or so ago that was meant to be terribly impressive. Not the indifferent copper of an average harvest moon. This thing was the size of a dinner plate held at arm’s length. It was a giant space hopper in the sky. And it was just over the next hill. We actually sat and stared at it for some minutes before deciding that it wasn’t a weather balloon being launched and was actually the moon. The words ‘flying saucer’ might not have been uttered aloud, but they were definitely thought for a moment, and the experience was actually quite scary because this thing was so extraordinary that the default ‘It’s the moon and an optical illusion’ just didn’t work.