# Destroying the moon -- missed opportunity!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroying-the-moon-missed-opportunity/38957>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [October 30, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroying-the-moon-missed-opportunity/38957 "2000-10-30T19:03:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroying-the-moon-missed-opportunity/38957/1 "2000-10-30T19:03:08Z")

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In this week’s Sraight Dope Column, [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/001027.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/001027.html), Cecil says that with no moon:

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> (2) Dogs would have to bay at, I dunno, Alpha Centauri.

Alpha Centauri?! Come on! Isn’t the right answer obvious?  
If there were no moon, dogs would have to bay at **Sirius,** because it’s **the Dog Star!!**

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroying-the-moon-missed-opportunity/38957/2 "2000-10-30T22:16:33Z")

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Oh, c’mon… be Sirious.

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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroying-the-moon-missed-opportunity/38957/3 "2000-10-31T01:50:30Z")

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I have to put on my thinking-Capella to come up with a good comeback here. Otherwise, you might just rip out my fragile ego and Castor to the wind. I’ll have to be as stealthy as a Wolf 359 in sheep’s clothing. I could get poetic on yer ass, but I’d rather get Procyon you.  
– **tracer** , who is still trying to think up a pun for BD +5°1668.

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**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroying-the-moon-missed-opportunity/38957/4 "2000-10-31T02:38:40Z")

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this thread should go in the pit.

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**Author:** ![Principessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Principessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Principessa)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroying-the-moon-missed-opportunity/38957/5 "2004-07-26T04:19:34Z")

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Maybe dogs down under could bay to Alpha Centari, but it wouldn’t be visible to dogs in the northern hemisphere.

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroying-the-moon-missed-opportunity/38957/6 "2004-07-26T04:42:35Z")

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**principessa**. Once again, opening threads more than three months old is a no-no. Start a new thread, and link to the old. That’s how you should do it.

Thanks.