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Old Tue Dec 21, 2010, 01:17pm
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However, a full moon CAN occur without a lunar eclipse. And there was a full moon before and after the event.
It's possible (I'm not going to look it up) that under a very strict definition, a "full moon" lasts only an instant. The moon would be a waxing gibbous the instant earlier and a waning gibbous an instant after.
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It's possible (I'm not going to look it up) that under a very strict definition, a "full moon" lasts only an instant. The moon would be a waxing gibbous the instant earlier and a waning gibbous an instant after.
But it is also factual that a lunar eclipse is a subset of the full moon.
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Old Tue Dec 21, 2010, 02:36pm
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It's possible that under a very strict definition, a "full moon" lasts only an instant. The moon would be a waxing gibbous the instant earlier and a waning gibbous an instant after.
Yes. However a specific phase, like full, first quarter, last quarter, or new, is often considered to last one day. Cool reference to waxing gibbous, and waning gibbous. I wish more people were as scientifically literate.

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But it is also factual that a lunar eclipse is a subset of the full moon.
Sounds good.
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Old Tue Dec 21, 2010, 02:39pm
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But it is also factual that a lunar eclipse is a subset of the full moon.
Right. And Billy said that "full moon and lunar eclipse" was redundant. He meant "wordy." Just saying "lunar eclipse" would be sufficient.
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Old Tue Dec 21, 2010, 03:01pm
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But it is also factual that a lunar eclipse is a subset of the full moon.
No it's not. Neither a lunar eclipse nor a full moon is a set, so neither can be a subset of the other.

Perhaps you mean that the set of lunar eclipses is a proper subset of the set of full moons? It makes more sense to say this without set theory, IMO.

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I think I'm going to have a great game tonight. This thread is making me a better official.
Didn't you want to type your post in a blue font?

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Old Tue Dec 21, 2010, 06:31pm
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Didn't you want to type your post in a blue font?
Not unless he wants to be spatchcocked too.....
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Old Tue Dec 21, 2010, 06:42pm
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Not unless he wants to be spatchcocked too.
I would have never, in a million years, guessed that this would have turned into a cooking forum. Never. I would have bet my house on it.
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I just hope he doesn't end up mooning the crowd, which would eclipse all of his prior embarrassments in life.
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I just hope he doesn't end up mooning the crowd, which would eclipse all of his prior embarrassments in life.


We have pictures of you so-called "mooners!" And just because the pictures aren't of your faces doesn't mean we can't identify you! At this very moment, those pictures are on their way to Washington, where the FBI has experts in this type of identification. If you turn yourselves in now, you may escape a federal charge!

mbyron: Thanks. It works.
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