ArticlesOkay, shhh! Listen up! Everyone, shush!
Here’s what we are going to do.
If you have a red laser pointer, make sure you have some fresh batteries in it. At 8pm, on the next full moon, everyone point their laser pointers at the moon at the same time! Try to pick a spot no-one else is pointing at.
For those people who don’t have a laser pointer, there’s a special job for you. You have to saunter up to an astronomer around 8pm, casually glance at the moon and looked shocked: “Whoa! What’s going on? Is that another red eclipse?”
Tell all your friends. Remember: No telling any astronomers! This is a surprise! I can’t wait to see the looks on their faces!
I think this is a much better answer to the problem.
Comment by Bork Blatt on August 31, 2007
No. No, no no. No, no, no, no, no!
Julian, this is wrong. Very wrong. It may be the wrongest thing since this sentence.
Using a lunar eclipse as a pickup line – funny! (In a disturbing way, but anyway)
Asking the planet to simulate a lunar eclipse at full moon using consumer-grade red laser pointers? That crosses a line. I’m not sure where this line is, or who put it there, I just know it has been crossed.
This is clearly a job for the US department of defense – they desperately need reasons to develop mobile chemical lasers, as the whole “rocket defense” thing doesn’t seem to be working. Plus, if they accidentally blow up the moon, you’d have even better material to ply women with.