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May 2 2012 12:54 PM

Supermoon Supercomic

By Phil Plait

Apropos of my last post...

This Sci-ence webcomic went up around the same time I posted my Supermoon deflation a few hours ago.

Phil Plait writes Slate’s Bad Astronomy blog and is an astronomer, public speaker, science evangelizer, and author of Death From the Skies!

COINCIDENCE?

Well, yeah. Still, funny.

And man. Those two women must really be tired of me. First the Moon Illusion in the park, and now this.

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