of full moons and mars hoaxes

of full moons and mars hoaxes
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if i ever again express the idea of not getting a good night's sleep in order to drive all the way out to saronida (the location's geotagged on flickr) to photograph the moonset, just shoot me.
i've been incapacitated with a migraine all day -- just starting to recover.

now that i'm up, here are two interesting bits of info:

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item 1:

it spreads, it mutates, it refuses to die.

for the seventh year in a row, the mars hoax is infecting email boxes around the world. passed from one reader to another, the message states that on august 27th mars will approach earth and swell to the size of a full moon. 'NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN,' the email declares--always in caps.

news flash: it's not true.

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item 2:

yesterday's apogee full moon was smaller than usual, as explained and visualized by anthony ayiomamitis:


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