The “Blood Moon” lunar eclipse is October 8th. This total eclipse will be visible across the Americas and the Pacific, as well as Australia and most of Asia. But how easy will it be for you to see? In the Pacific time zone, the entire process of the eclipse will occur before the moon sets, but you’ll have to stay up through the middle of the night to see it. In the Eastern time zone, you can just get up early in the morning, but the moon will set before the entire eclipse is done. You should also check your local weather forecast to see if you should expect clouds. A lunar eclipse has several phases, as outlined at Sky and Telescope Magazine. They also have schedules for the different time zones. The graphic above is for Eastern Daylight Time, but you can get other time zone versions at the magazine. -via Bad Astronomy
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This argument has a "I think talkies are going to ruin pictures" quality to it. The internet cannot kill print media, that can only be done by stodgy old print workers that refuse to accept their medium is going to change.
Change, not die.
In my experience (I don't work in marketing, but do work with science magazines) magazine sales aren't doing as badly as people presume. Shares in the overall market have divided, from what I've been told, but this is far from 'print is dead'.
What successful magazines are realising is that the web is a tool that augments what they do, not competes with it.
Every new medium that has come into being has been heralded as the 'death' of something. The grammophome heralded the death of local choirs; cinema the death of live theatre; television the death of cinema etc. And while they all evolved from the impact of competing tech, none of it disappeared.
Print will be around for a while yet, even if will necessarily involve a digital component.
Until then I have my popup blocker though.
I now await the developments in the e-reading tech and those other comparable technologies. I see a bright future for magazines and newspapers in that field.