# Supermoon is coming! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermoon-is-coming/620752 "2012-05-03T13:28:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermoon-is-coming/620752/21 "2012-05-06T04:09:14Z")
I’'ll say if you told me the moon was a smidge bigger and brighter tonight I could believe it to be true. But you are talking to someone who is very visually oriented AND baring a heavy rain or clouds makes a point of looking at the night sky for a fair bit every night for the past handful of decades. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermoon-is-coming/620752/22 "2012-05-06T04:18:44Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > sigh. Saskatchewan, like Minnesota, is heavily overcast. Like a miracle, the clouds parted and—the moon looked pretty much like a regular full moon. I am now going to chillax as NDT recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermoon-is-coming/620752/23 "2012-05-06T07:04:20Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Nevertheless, even last night’s moon wasn’t quite full I was able to discern the Rabbit In The Moon, and the Man In The Moon With Sticks–two alternate explanations in folklore for the pattern of light and dark patches visible to the naked eye. I don’t know where the story of the rabbit comes from, or even if there is one. Thanks to the _Children’s Encyclopaedia_, I can help you out there. Rabbit, in (IIRC) a “Red Indian” legend, was entertaining an important stranger but hadn’t any food to give him. So he told the stranger to build a fire and, when it was well alight, hopped onto it to roast himself for his guest’s dinner. He found to his surprise that the fire wouldn’t cook him or even make him uncomfortable, and the god (for such it was) further rewarded his selflessness with a new home in the moon. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermoon-is-coming/620752/24 "2012-05-06T12:10:40Z")
I think I saw it rising as I crossed Iowa one bitterly cold night. Frankly it scare the hell out of me. After it was fully above the horizon I was in awe. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermoon-is-coming/620752/25 "2012-05-06T13:23:04Z")
Everyone by me was excited and posting pictures on their Facebook pages. I was driving to Champaign and could see it out the window. It looked like every other full moon. Maybe I had to see it just as it was rising, or maybe seeing it over the flat landscape made a difference, but it was no more than any other full moon. Disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermoon-is-coming/620752/26 "2012-05-06T13:29:01Z")
Interestingly, just like superman’s superhuman powers, the supermoon’s extra light also comes from earth’s yellow sun. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermoon-is-coming/620752/27 "2012-05-06T15:09:23Z")
_blatantly stolen from Einstein Moomjy_ Moon’s Day was… Here…! ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermoon-is-coming/620752/28 "2012-05-06T15:28:26Z")
Everyone should sing [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY6insZjCfU) in honor of Supermoon. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermoon-is-coming/620752/29 "2012-05-06T15:49:34Z")
To celebrate supermoon you need pie. A special kind of pie. And here’s a song about it. Link safe for work and kids. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FEpUNlPk1R0/hqdefault.jpg "Bubba Likes Moonpies Song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEpUNlPk1R0) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermoon-is-coming/620752.md?page=1)