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Love Affair With The Moon 2012 Janet Kuypers (based on the 2005 poem Love Affair With The Moon and originating from the prose How Do I Get to the Moon in the 20050215 feature How Do I Get There?, but revised and edited 20120308) how do we understnad this love for what we see in the night sky I think everyone loves the moon and I think everyone was transfixed to their televisions or radios when we made that first one small step for man that one giant leap for mankind scientists at NASA during the cold war considered setting off nuclear bombs on the dark side of the moon because, you see, no one sees that side of the moon and it would be a safe distance from the Earth but what would that do to our weather, or our orbit? the earthquake that caused the devastating tsunami in Asia slowed the rotation of this planet for a full second — and they say commting nuclear atrocities on the moon is a safe distance from the Earth our calendars have leap years ‘cause we can’t get the time right... in a few months we even have to add seconds to a day to adjust our caledar to the slowing of the Earth’s rotation astronomers now estimate that because of gravity’s change the moon, every year is almost 4 centimeters farther away from the earth so if you remember the moon looking so big when you looked at it in the night sky when you were little, well, you may have been right astronomy is like a forbidden love affair something whose constancy can give you hope even when you’re only standing outside in the night and looking up at its perennial beauty it is something one person may never actualy touch but it is something we can always, like a star-crossed lover, admire from afar

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