Why is the moon always full and not hungry?? HUH??
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Because the sky is blue, ground is brown and grass is green
255077
It has to be. A full moon is when the earth is between the sun & moon. Just like a solar eclipce , the moon must be between the earth and sun. That is the definition of what a new moon is. I hope you won your bet.
514886
the moon won't blow up.  it is geologically inactive.  that means that its just a dead rock up there orbiting the earth.
513987
What confuses you about the moon? Most planets have them. Ours is old, lifeless, has a high reflectivity, and rotates once for every revolution (so we always see the same side). Why are you confused?
798233
The moon orbits the earth.  It does not 'rise'.  Look in any good newspaper to see what time it is visible in your area.  This information can be found in the weather section.
478067
When there is a full moon, the gravity is stronger (have you ever heard about the full moon affecting the tides?) Tides usually go very high around the full moon.\n\nThe extra pull on gravity makes primates feel slightly uncomfortable (humans and animals) and that causes them to get more agitated and a little more aggressive.  There are usually more fights around the full moon, and people tend to be a little more disagreeable.\n\n\nSame thing on cloudy days.  The air pressure is up and people get a little more irritable.  Know that, and you'll go far.  As people for behaviors on sunny days when it is not a full moon.
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Pictures on this website: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/moon_phases.html\n\nDon't go crazy on the full moon now, ya hear?! =) (I know I do.)
407992
No its because the atmosphere acts like a lense. When the moon is high in the sky, the atmosphere has little affect on what the moon looks like so it will be smaller, but as it gets closer and closer to the horizon, you will be looking through a lot more atmosphere, which is like a lense of a magnifying glass. Thats why when it is low in the sky, the moon is very huge looking.\n\nBy the way, just for future reference, all orbits are eliptical because a perfectly circular orbit is only theoretical, and would never occur in nature. However the moon's orbit is close enough to circular to not affect how big it looks compared to the affect the atmosphere does.
490625
The space has no air i.e. it is vacuum. A sound needs some medium to travel. As there is no air around the moon the sound does not travel and thus one can not hear anything on the moon.
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The moon's light is actually just a reflection.  The surface of the moon reflects the suns light.  That is why you can have half moons, quarter moons, etc.  The moon itself doesn't produce any light.
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My Mother-in-Law is convinced that the phases of the moon and changes in the wind predict the weather pattern until the moon starts to next wax/wane.\n\nAs a scientist I know that this is twaddle.\n\nThe trouble is, she has an uncanny knack of being right.
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Because when it's closer to the horizon, we have other objects (trees, houses, or even mountains) to compare it to, and the moon (or sun) looks very large, taking up 2% of the horizon.\n\nWhen it's farther up in the sky, there's nothing around it, so it tend to disappear in all that empty space.  Even though it still takes up 2% of any given arc, there are wide open arcs to the right, to the left, to the top and to the bottom of the moon that are totally devoid of objects.  Relative to all that open sky, it doesn't look so big.
229644
Seems how the moon has no water...I think the earth has more
226485
You reminded me of my childhood days. I used to ask my father the same Questions.\n\nClouds don't go any where during night. They are still there it only that there is not enough light for us to see them. Remember when you see moon light we see those clouds around or sometimes the moon hiding behind the clouds.
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Of course, that won't help you figure out how high it is in the sky each night at a specific time if you are trying to fill in a moon observing lab that you failed to do.  \n\nI will help you this much: the moon rises 50 minutes later each night (about 12 degrees further east at the same time each night) and is more or less directly overhead at midnight when it is full.  If you figure out where it should be at a particular time each night, you deserve credit for the lab.
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The full moon is visible as full anywhere\non earth where it is above the horizon...\nobviously if it is far in the southern\nhemisphere and you are far north, like\nin northern Finland, you may not see the\nfull moon at all... (but if you could it\nwould still appear full)
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It's an optical illusion.  When the Moon is low on the horizon, we can easily compare its size with the size of familiar things like trees and buildings, while when it is high in the sky we can't compare it as easily.\n\nTo prove this to yourself, the next time you see the Moon, hold your pinky finger up at arms length to "cover" the Moon, and you'll notice it covers the Moon quite easily.  Make a mental note of the size of your little finger compared to the size of the Moon.  Now the next time you see the Moon look huge along the horizon, do the pinky thing again, and you'll notice it's really the same size as before.