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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds aromantic and/or ace to me.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Should have asked her if she wants to join him watching the lunar eclipse.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. That would have been the real pro move.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Uhm, lunar eclipses aren't visible. Or did i mix that up?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Lunar eclipses are visible everywhere you can see the moon (roughly half of the earth)

Solar eclipses are only visible in the shadow of the moon, which is very tiny comparatively.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah they are, they happen when the full moon passes through the Earth's shadow

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

a lunar eclipse only takes a few hours

not all night

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

They can be over 6 hours with ideal conditions, which could be all night during the summer at higher latitudes. (On the summer solstice, my city only gets around 5 hours of night + astronomical twilight).

[+] [email protected] -15 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Lunar eclipse? As in a new moon that happens every month?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

A new moon is when the moon is between the sun and earth. A full moon is when the moon is behind the earth, and a lunar eclipse is when the earth blocks the sun on the moon during a full moon cycle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

a new moon only blocks the sun periodically because the moon's orbit has a 5 degree inclination:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Lunar_Orbit_and_Orientation_with_respect_to_the_Ecliptic.svg/440px-Lunar_Orbit_and_Orientation_with_respect_to_the_Ecliptic.svg.png (png is black on transparent)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What would be a solar eclipse though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Solar eclipse is when the moon is between the sun and the earth. Lunar eclipse is when the earth is between the moon and the sun. A "new moon" is just when the side of the moon that we can see isn't facing the sun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

When the moon is directly between the earth and the sun, during the day.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

No. "New moon" is just the night side of the moon facing us. A lunar eclipse is when the Earth blocks sunlight from the moon, which can only occur on a full moon approximately every six months.

[–] [email protected] 151 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Should have invited her to go watch the eclipse together

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

This is definitely some incel "I don't need women I go my own way" sort of post.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

OP is definitely gay

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

There's an old quote, 'never blame on malice that which can be explained by incompetence'.

I would adapt that to be, 'never blame on homosexuality that which can be explained by stupidity'...

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