Moony moons
Just got back in from staring at the moon, which was looming redly over the eaves of my house.
And thinking, as I usually do when I actually stop to appreciate the sky, about interstellar distances; how fast, on the lunar surface, that advancing wave of darkness must be moving, while it's imperceptibly slow here on this rock. And then, in turn, of how many millions of like rocks there are out there that I'll never have the chance to see up close; and that there's even so much of this one planet that I'll never see, not really; it's so difficult to thoroughly know even a few acres of cornfield, let alone a state or a nation or a world or a people. I've always longed for transcendence; or, failing that, more time -- enough at least to satisfy my curiosity. I sometimes wonder if curiosity isn't my strongest guiding characteristic, however antisocially it may express itself, and however much my drive to be open to it is perversely limiting of possibilities.
Anyway, I was really just posting to point out that all the NASA pages, pretty much every page about the lunar eclipse, keeps pointing out that yes, it IS SAFE to look at a lunar eclipse with the naked eye. Just like, y'know, THE MOON. Sigh...
And thinking, as I usually do when I actually stop to appreciate the sky, about interstellar distances; how fast, on the lunar surface, that advancing wave of darkness must be moving, while it's imperceptibly slow here on this rock. And then, in turn, of how many millions of like rocks there are out there that I'll never have the chance to see up close; and that there's even so much of this one planet that I'll never see, not really; it's so difficult to thoroughly know even a few acres of cornfield, let alone a state or a nation or a world or a people. I've always longed for transcendence; or, failing that, more time -- enough at least to satisfy my curiosity. I sometimes wonder if curiosity isn't my strongest guiding characteristic, however antisocially it may express itself, and however much my drive to be open to it is perversely limiting of possibilities.
Anyway, I was really just posting to point out that all the NASA pages, pretty much every page about the lunar eclipse, keeps pointing out that yes, it IS SAFE to look at a lunar eclipse with the naked eye. Just like, y'know, THE MOON. Sigh...