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kms2547 t1_iv6642a wrote

Trash headline.

At BEST, roughly half the globe can see a total lunar eclipse.

Also, journalists need to stop calling them "blood moon". Just stop. You're not an 18th century bumpkin.

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zeeblecroid t1_iv6gbsr wrote

Seriously. It's gotten people thinking that eclipses and "blood moons" are separate things.

At least they didn't slap another three random adjectives onto this one like they've started doing for every full moon for some reason..

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kms2547 t1_iv74f04 wrote

You're telling me it's not a super-wolf-blood-moon-big-red-circle-sky-disc-thing?

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shawnaeatscats t1_iv6g7jc wrote

I think its just a name they use like harvest moon and blue moon and such

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zeeblecroid t1_iv7f90w wrote

No, it's a replacement term for "lunar eclipse" which journalists started pushing some years back because it sounded scarier and less science-y, and thus gets more clicks. Purely dumbing things down for advertising purposes.

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StarChild413 t1_iv9121u wrote

especially because this one's visible from america and on an election night

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