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The lunar eclipse

It happens every two point- five years so make sure you are there. Pack some stuff and put in the land rover and meet me at the desert in California. We will have barbecue on the sand and experiment with roast duck and roast lamb, we will have chicken nuggets too, hotdog and mullet stew. Is it sciences verses man or is it the creator locked up in a bread van, nature is pulling me, and I don’t know where it is going to take me, but I am sure that the universe will embrace me. Take your sleeping bags and your wash rags; we are going to camp out in the desert and watch this spectacular event unfold in the night sky. The conversation is still going on and you have got to bring your guitar to sing a desert song while we wait. Bring some logs with you to make a fireplace to keep our feet warm. It happens every two and a half year when the elements in skies move around looking for an anchor and a crown. The bewildering night stands up like giant in the sky, watching the meteorite shooting like missile from outer space to cool down the temperature on planet moon. Sometimes you cannot see it with your naked you must be elevated above the sea. I once said to myself what, I would do if I had not met you, the phenomena keep burning in my brain and sometimes it drives me insane; the vision fits perfectly with the reality but if you cannot figure it out it will make you shout. Galileo saw it under the telescope, and everyone look at him in scores of doubts. He observed the Milky Way, believed to be nebulous, it was just a multitude of stars densely packed together looks like cloud from the Earth. I examine the work of Galileo and he was not a mad man; he was a genius with an explanation and he “explain the cause of the uneven waning as light occlusion from lunar mountains and craters. “The Moon was not a translucent and perfect sphere, as Aristotle claimed, and hardly the first "planet", an "eternal pearl to magnificently ascend into the heavenly empyrian", as put forth by Dante. Galileo is sometimes credited with the discovery of the lunar liberation in latitude.” Galileo also observed the planet Saturn, and at first mistook its rings for planets, thinking it was a three-bodied system. When he observed the planet later, Saturn's rings were directly oriented to Earth, causing him to think that two of the bodies had disappeared. The rings reappeared when he observed the planet in 1616, further confusing him.” (Wikipedia) They even place him under house arrest and said that he was insane who dear him to go above the teaching of the church and question the works of the invisible God, oh how this story makes me feel sad. It happens every two years and five months when three of the earth’s elements parade in the atmosphere, the moon falls between the earth and the sun, blocking the sun’s view and cast a clustered shadows upon the earth and push you into a corner. It happens every two and a half year so make sure you are there. The lunar eclipse is drawing near, and you can view it from various angle. Europe, North/East Asia, much of Australia, much of Africa, North America, South America, the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, and Antarctica. Make sure you get on the mountain on March 25th to see the lunar eclipse.

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