jay_walk

I missed the lunar eclipse completely (as well as writing). Did see X-men.

The moon, I recently heard in a science class I wasn't otherwise mentally present in, is larger than most moons, chipped-off pieces of earth, formerly a belt of rubble, and very slowly leaving us. Earth and moon circle each other, and slow each other's own rotation, so that the moon doesn't rotate at all and the earth rotates more slowly. If/when the moon is gone, it'll speed up quite a lot as well as tilt to be horizontal.

This would get us some unusual weather.

Someone write a book in this setting.

Well I'm sure it's been done.

Best not wait for the moon to leave on its own but have something large collide with it. Or nuke it, or have aliens nuke it. Or steal it. Or something. Mysterious backstory event in ancient times maybe.

Anyway as a result there's be no day and night but hot half and a cold half, resolvable by living in between, but more interestingly extremely high-speed winds. Probably furthered by the temperatures.

For apocalyptic fiction, humans can move underground.
For xenofiction, this would make some interesting organisms- flat, heavy, or both, with either strong breathing systems or less probably breathings systems in which they just let the wind go through them. LIke the the various invertebrates in streams. Or more tunnel-shaped completely, like whales if whales were hollow and less long and their mouths-cavern went all the way through.
If the wind would be a bit slower. It might be if the moon isn't completely obliterated but only somewhat broken.

So yeah, that's why I zoned out on the rest of that class. Writing or illustrating that is going on my list of things to do over vacation.