For those of you like me, who are night owls, mother nature is planning something special for us on this, the Winter solstice...a full lunar eclipse (I'm planning on having my Pink Floyd queued up on my Ipod for this).  The event begins at half past midnight EST, and comes to it's maximum at 3:17 a.m.  It also coincides with the Ursids meteor shower, which is usually not visible during a full moon, but because of the eclipse (reported to turn the moon a blood red), they should be visible.

I'm really looking forward to this!  It only happens once every 372 years!  \o/

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Sounds to me like a precursor to the end of the world.

 

 

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:rofl:    Who ya gonna call?

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:thumbsup:

Sounds to me like a precursor to the end of the world.
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Oh crap, is that THIS week? I thought we had another couple years to go....(2012). :(O

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My chance of viewing this one is nil to none. Overcast, snow...  :S Hope you all do better.

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I had marked it on my calendar, but thanks for the reminder. Hoping for some pictures.:meow: <3

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Who ya gonna call?
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Oh crap, is that THIS week? I thought we had another couple years to go...
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No prob, bro...

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Quoting navigatsio, reply 3

Oh crap, is that THIS week? I thought we had another couple years to go....(2012).
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Actually, THAT one may take as long as 2014, depending on which calendar is used to interpret the prophesy, Julian Calendar or Gregorian Calendar, and then there's something about the codex. :S   Meh...best bet to make the most of the moment you have, rather than the one that might or might not come in the future.  Party on! :beer:

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best bet to make the most of the moment you have, rather than the one that might or might not come in the future.
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Yup, my philosophy as well. I view most prophecy claims as little more than horse s**t and if it did end tomorrow, nothing you can do about it anyway. Party on, sister! :thumbsup:

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Well....checked out the lunar eclipse and it was tiny....actually can still see it up there. :|

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Oh crap, is that THIS week? I thought we had another couple years to go....(2012).
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It's beautiful here in Central Florida -- AND I saw 2 meteors; the sky was totally clear, so many stars and that pink moon...really made me feel like I was out in space (and considering me and mine were the only ones on the block out there staring up at the sky, I'm pretty sure we ARE "out in space" as far as the rest of the neighborhood is concerned). 

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Got a great view here in Scotland due to the big freeze giving clear frosty skies.

MP3 player, Led Zeppelin -  Stairway To Heaven, took me back a few years!   :|

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Rats! Completely overcast.  #:(

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Thx.

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XD

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Thx.

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:rofl: :rofl:

 

We had/still have overcast with snow.  So no way to see the eclipse.... #:(

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Snowed. But, I was sleeping anyways.

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I watched last night. Stayed up all night. if it was not cloudy I could of seen the copper much better. anyway, It was great, :D

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And guys, do not believe in this end-of-world thing. anyway, the world claimed that the world would end a load of years... and nothing has happened.and listen to this: "No, and here is why it won't.

The theory of the world ending in 2012 isn't true, it's just a silly hoax. The world isn't going to end on December 21, 2012, just the Mayan Calendar ends. One of severalMayan calendars is the Long Count calendar, which is reset to day 0 every 1,872,000 days or 7057.5 years. The next reset date, by some calculations, is December 21, 2012. This is not a prediction of the end of the world. The Mayan Calendar has to end sometime and did you know when the Mayan Calendar ended the Mayans would celebrate? Besides, nobody can't predict when the end of the world is. You shouldn't always believe what you hear from other people. The scientific evidence about 2012 doesn't go together. Those who spread rumors about 2012 should be punished. You know what is sad, people may commit suicide over this thinking its the end of the world. Or maybe some people would get unwise with their money and spend it all like crazy and be in thousands of dollars in debt, just because they thought the world would end. Then they have to pay it off later and deal with the stress of those bills. That's why those who spread rumors about 2012 should be punished. You know what else is false about this 2012 garbage? 

• Planet X (Nibiru) isn't going to hit the Earth it doesn't exist.
• Poles are switching everyday, this isn't going to happen all in just 1 day. This process takes thousands of years. Throughout geological history there has been may pole switches and life has still survived.
• Also people are saying these poles will switch in one day due to a black hole. That's NOT true. The nearest black hole to our galaxy is 1600 light years away.
• Sun will be lined up with a sunspot, but it doesn't mean it will wipe out all life on Earth. One time ago, Earth was lined up with a sunspot and people were on it and everybody didn't just die.
• There is not going to be catasphoic earthquakes. 
• In the Bible there is nothing that says the world will end in 2012. They say they got their proof from Revelation 13 and you see the number 666 and that number is just a number in God's book that represents human imperfection. So, 3 of those 6's mean humans are extremely imperfect.
• Just because certain cultures predict it like the Chinese, Japanese and all of them doesn't mean their predictions are correct. As I said, nobody can predict such a thing.
• No comment will hit Earth.

Each time the end the world is predicted. They are always wrong. Here are all the predictions of when the world would end and each time they where wrong. Before 2012 it was 2006. Then 2000. And 1990, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1982, 1980, 1975, 1974, 1970, 1967, 1960, 1957, 1953, 1948, 1940, 1936, 1919, 1915, 1914, 1891, 1856, 1850, 1844, 1832, 1830, 1794, 1792, 1736, 1689, 1669, 1533, 1524, 1496, 1346, 1284, 1205, 1033, 1005, 1000, 992, 968, 500, 375, 365, 200, 90, 60, 30. SEE!! The end hasn't came and all this shows they are wrong!! Through out history the end has been predicted but has never happened so, whats the point of worrying?

Don't live your life in fear. Just live your life be sucessful in your life by getting good grades, staying in school, going to college, getting promoted at your job, and achieving lots of goals. Don't worry about something this silly. It isn't going to happen! Every few years these silly predictions about the world ending happen. It has happened throughout Human history. Anyways, as from what I just said, you can't predict the future. What if tommarow were the end? What if tommarow you died in car accident, or something else went wrong which costs your life?"From yahoo!

see? no world ending. :D :D :D

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Anyway, see what I am trying to get at here "WebGizmos"?
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Well...I always take what some "scientist" rocket or otherwise has to say about anything. In the end what ever is going to happen will happen and there's not a whole hell of a lot we can do about it. If we are to get hit buy something bigger than us or the poles are going to shift and cause havoc it's pretty much game over. I could get hit by a car tomorrow for all I know...so I always live each day like it was my last and I don't sweat the small stuff. Roll another one! :grin:

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Admittedly my camera isn't the best, especially for these types of pictures, but here's a picture I took of the eclipse, so those of you who couldn't see it could get kind of an idea of what it looked like.