terça-feira, julho 20, 2004

Lua Azul

De dois anos e meio em dois anos e meio, aproximadamente, acontecem duas Luas Cheias no mesmo mês.

É a "Blue Moon" anglo-saxónica, já no próximo dia 31 do corrente, no grande ecrã sideral acima de si.
# Lançado por PSA às 6:47:00 da manhã
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)