Yes, It's Howlin' Time Again
Yes, the Full Moon is back and Luky has again adopted his authoritative position on most everything.
The most pressing thing last night seems to have been Luky's talk with TMITM - you know, "The Man In The Moon." I interrupted the soft howling (which was likely to be giving Luky a stiff neck - so I figure he owes me a thanks despite his expressed annoyance at the time) to joke about how one-sided the conversation seemed to be.
"No," he said with a straight face, "I can hear him."
"What are you talking about?"
"It's all in the expression," Luky tells me.
Of course I pursued that - "Expression? Expression of what? Expression with what?"
So I get the TMITM lecture again. I guess it's all about the Mares - not horses, but seas - as Luky announces every time he says the word, "that's Latin, of course."
The explanation was relatively simple, actually. It turns out, if Malamutes are to be believed (I'll get in trouble for that line) that four of the Moon Maria, which tend to show up for us Earthlings on His "Northeast" face, line up in the appearance of a sad, droopy eye and furrowed brow. Luky identifies them as: Mare Serenitatis (the Sea of Serenity) and Mare Tranquillitatis (the Sea of Tranquility), along with Mare Crisium (the Sea of Crisis) and Mare Fecunditatis (the Sea of Fertility).
Luky says there are great Internet links about the Moon, including NASA's Interactive Lunar Atlas (http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/science/atlas/menua.htm), which Luky says includes a misspelling of the Latin name of the Sea of Fertility (NASA's site lists "Mare Fecuditatis," when it is really "Mare Fecunditatis"); the Venezuelan ARVAL Observatory has a good site (http://www.oarval.org/MoonMapen.htm); Wikipedia does its usual good job as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon); and there's even a Russian website that does an excellent Moon job (http://www.penpal.ru/astro/map.shtml) from its general Astronomy site (http://www.penpal.ru/astro/).
"Indeed," Luky continued in his most professorial tone, "Mare Fecunditatis is almost a teardrop when He's really sorrowful."
"But you're saying that these geological features - and even worse, geological features when combined with our poor, unaided eyesight through less than perfect hazy atmospheric interference - can create different moods and expressions."
"Yes, that what I'm saying. Even more, they create conversation."
"You've got to be kidding! How can you have a conversation with imprecise geological features 250,000 miles out in Space?"
"How is it you have these philosophical conversations with your dog?"
I just knew he was going to find a way to win this argument somehow!!
The most pressing thing last night seems to have been Luky's talk with TMITM - you know, "The Man In The Moon." I interrupted the soft howling (which was likely to be giving Luky a stiff neck - so I figure he owes me a thanks despite his expressed annoyance at the time) to joke about how one-sided the conversation seemed to be.
"No," he said with a straight face, "I can hear him."
"What are you talking about?"
"It's all in the expression," Luky tells me.
Of course I pursued that - "Expression? Expression of what? Expression with what?"
So I get the TMITM lecture again. I guess it's all about the Mares - not horses, but seas - as Luky announces every time he says the word, "that's Latin, of course."
The explanation was relatively simple, actually. It turns out, if Malamutes are to be believed (I'll get in trouble for that line) that four of the Moon Maria, which tend to show up for us Earthlings on His "Northeast" face, line up in the appearance of a sad, droopy eye and furrowed brow. Luky identifies them as: Mare Serenitatis (the Sea of Serenity) and Mare Tranquillitatis (the Sea of Tranquility), along with Mare Crisium (the Sea of Crisis) and Mare Fecunditatis (the Sea of Fertility).
Luky says there are great Internet links about the Moon, including NASA's Interactive Lunar Atlas (http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/science/atlas/menua.htm), which Luky says includes a misspelling of the Latin name of the Sea of Fertility (NASA's site lists "Mare Fecuditatis," when it is really "Mare Fecunditatis"); the Venezuelan ARVAL Observatory has a good site (http://www.oarval.org/MoonMapen.htm); Wikipedia does its usual good job as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon); and there's even a Russian website that does an excellent Moon job (http://www.penpal.ru/astro/map.shtml) from its general Astronomy site (http://www.penpal.ru/astro/).
"Indeed," Luky continued in his most professorial tone, "Mare Fecunditatis is almost a teardrop when He's really sorrowful."
"But you're saying that these geological features - and even worse, geological features when combined with our poor, unaided eyesight through less than perfect hazy atmospheric interference - can create different moods and expressions."
"Yes, that what I'm saying. Even more, they create conversation."
"You've got to be kidding! How can you have a conversation with imprecise geological features 250,000 miles out in Space?"
"How is it you have these philosophical conversations with your dog?"
I just knew he was going to find a way to win this argument somehow!!
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