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if the moon exploded unexpectedly you wouldn't read it from HN first The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason [Book]
by catlikesshrimp 5y ago
if the moon exploded unexpectedly you wouldn't read it from HN first
The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason [Book]
- simonh 5y agoIf it happened while the moon was not visible from your part of the world, and you were reading HN at the time you might well do. One of my favourite Larry Niven stories is Inconstant Moon. One evening the moon starts getting brighter and brighter, people start partying in the street and it becomes almost as bright as daylight. The protagonist goes to a bar and starts getting as drunk as possible, because he knows where the light of the moon comes from, the effect this must be having on the sunward side of the Earth, and what that means is about to happen where he is.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoI figured it was some moon on a planet not near us, or a nightclub.