Why does it seem that more crime happens on the night of a full moon?
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I guess it has to do with all the light as well as stigma.
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Most scientists think it is a myth, though many people believe it.  Actually the word "lunacy" meaning insanity comes from the Latin word "luna", meaning moon.  However, despite what a previous poster said, some studies have foun dconnections between the full moon and some negtive human behavior.  I've attached the website where they are listed.\n\nHere are some websites that might give you more information.
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The moon is orange in the fall, because it's celebrating Halloween! Just Kidding! Actually, the moon can have an orange color at any time of the year. As a matter of fact, just last month (December 1997) in Michigan, there were a few nights when the moon looked big and orange. \nThe reason for the orange color is due to the scattering of light by the atmosphere. When the moon is near the horizon, the moonlight has to pass through much more atmosphere than when the moon is directly overhead. By the time the moonlight reaches your eyes, the green, blue, and purple pieces of visible light have been scattered away by air molecules. You only see yellow, orange, or red. \n\nSometimes the moon appears orange even when it's directly overhead. This occurs when there's a lot of dust, smoke, or pollution in the atmosphere. The size of those particles will determine the type of color you will see. Sometimes the moon will look red, orange...even blue. \n\nIt seems like the moon appears in certain colors during certain times of the year. For instance, the Harvest moon during the fall appears very large and orange. There are two reasons for this: the moon's path across the sky, and the climate of earth. During certain times of the year, the moon will rise and set at different angles. Sometimes the moon stays really low in the sky and never reaches an overhead position. The earth's atmosphere also goes through certain changes at certain times of the year. In some months, the atmosphere has more dust particles than usual; in other months, the atmosphere contains a lot more cloud particles than usual. Extra particles in the atmosphere mean more scattering of light. \n\nIn the fall, many farmers are harvesting their crops. Lots of dust from the soil of the crops gets disturbed. The dust floats into the atmosphere. At the same time, the moon is lower in the sky during the fall season. So if there's more dust in the sky and the moon is closer to the horizon, then what color will the moon be? Orange! That's where "Harvest Moon" gets its name. \n\nPollution in the atmosphere can cause the same distortion of color. If you live in Los Angeles (which has a lot of pollution), for example, the moon will constantly appear in color. If the pollution is really thick, you might not be able to see the moon at all!
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Yes, I believe hamster activity does change with the phases of the moon slightly. For emample, with rodents in the wild under the light of a full moon activity seems increased. Whether it's more light to see by or the moon's gentle tug of gravity on the water in a mammals body I could not say for sure. It could be due to other activities in the night that change during a full moon that cause the hamster's to change their behavior in response to that as oppossed to due to the moon directly. This is just my opinion. Insofar as hamsters as pets inside the home perhaps it is in the genes from their former wild counterparts that would cause increased activity.
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it is full moon, so strange things can happen, like a Raider win.....
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Lunar eclipses occur at full moon, when the moon passes into the earth's shadow.  This does not occur at every full moon because the moon's orbit is inclined 5 degrees to the orbit of the earth around the sun, so the alignment must have the moon crossing through the earth's orbital plane at full moon.\n\nWhat we see depends on what part of the earth's shadow the moon passes into.  The shadow consists of two areas, the umbra and the penumbra.  The penumbra is a much lighter shadow, and lunar eclipses that occur when the moon only passes into it are difficult to see.  The portion of the moon that dims does so only a little.  When the moon passes into the umbra, the effect is more easily visible.  If the moon only goes part way into the umbra, the area in that portion of the shadow will become noticeably darker.  If the moon passes entirely into the umbra, that is a total lunar eclipse.  The moon will get much darker and will turn a rust color.  This reddish color is due to light that gets through the earth's atmosphere and back to the moon.  If you think about the color  of sunset and sunrise, it is primarily red.  It is this red light around the rim of the earth (as you would see the unlit side of the earth from the moon during a full moon) that illuminates the moon during a total lunar eclipse and makes it appear dark red.
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No. Around here a big deal crime is drunk driving or petty vandalism. Around the nearest big city it is drive-by gang shootings setting new highs in the murder rate.
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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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The total lunar eclipse does occur more often, simply because it's caused by the shadow of the Earth falling on the Moon and the Earth is larger than the Moon.\n\nBut total lunar eclipses are visible from the entire side of the Earth that happens to be facing the Moon; whereas total solar eclipses are only visible from the narrow path on Earth's surface where the Moon and Sun line up exactly. That's the real reason why total solar eclipses are so seldom seen.
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Because the sky is kinda blue that time....\n\nAlso, because of the gloominess that flows all around in the night time....
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Mooning is a harmless prank that most kids/young adults have done.  It hurts no one.  Why don't our lawmakers concentrate on REAL crimes and not silly pranks?
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I'm guessing you mean two full moons in one month, not four in a quarter year -- the term "blue moon" apparently can mean either.\n\nLooks like the next one is in June, 2007, the 1st and 30th.
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Full moon\n\nThe Galileo spacecraft took this composite image on 7 December 1992 on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-97. The color is 'enhanced' in the sense that the CCD camera is sensitive to near infrared wavelengths of light beyond human vision.The Full Moon is the lunar phase that occurs when the Moon lies on the opposite side of Earth from the Sun. The Moon as seen from the surface of Earth is fully illuminated by the Sun at this time, presenting a "full" round disk to viewers on Earth. As always, only half the total surface of the Moon is illuminated.\n\n\n1 Eclipses \n2 Numbers and formulae \n3 Folklore \n4 Calendars \n5 Full Moon names \n6 The Blue moon \n7 See also \n8 References \n \n\n\n\nEclipses\nA Full Moon is the only time when a lunar eclipse is possible; at that time the Moon may move through the shadow cast by Earth. However, because of the tilt or inclination of the Moon's orbit around Earth relative to Earth's orbit around the Sun, the Moon usually passes to the north or south of Earth's shadow at Full Moon, so a lunar eclipse does not occur at every Full Moon.\n\nFull Moons are generally a poor time to conduct astronomical observations, since the bright reflected sunlight from the Moon overwhelms the dimmer light from stars.\n\n\nNumbers and formulae\nAlthough on average it takes only 27.322 days (sidereal month) for the Moon to complete one orbit around Earth, it requires about two more days than that to again catch up with the Sun. On average, the number of days between Full Moons is about 29.5306 days. The actual number of days may differ from the average number by more than a half day. From one Full Moon to the next, the number of days in one lunation can vary between 29.272 and 29.833 days.\n\nThe age and apparent size of the Full Moon vary in a cycle of just under 14 synodic months, which is called the Full moon cycle.\n\nThe combined date and time of Full Moon number N, using a fictitious moon that moves at a strictly mean rate is approximately:\n\nD = 20.362954 + 29.5305888531 × N + 102.19 × 10-12 × N 2 \nD is the number of days (and fractions) since 1 January 2000 00:00:00 UTC, \nN is the count of full moons starting with zero as the first (not 1 as you would have expected) as the first Moon in the year 2000. \nThe true Full Moon may differ from this by up to about 14.5 hours, due to the normal irregularity in the Moon's Keplerian orbit, and due to the periodic perturbations on that Keplerian orbit by the Sun, the equatorial bulge of Earth, and nearby planets.\n\nSee the New Moon page for a detailed explanation of the formula.\n\n\nFolklore\nFull Moons are traditionally associated with temporal insomnia, insanity (hence the terms lunacy and lunatic) and various magical phenomena such as lycanthropy.\n\nPsychologists have found that there is no strong evidence for effects on behaviour around Full Moon [1]. They find that studies are not consistent, with some showing a positive effect, while others will show a negative effect. In one instance, the December 23, 2000 issue of the British Medical Journal published two studies on dog bite admission to hospitals in England and Australia. The study of the Bradford Royal Infirmary found that dog bites were twice as common at Full Moon, while the study of public hospitals in Australia found they were less likely at Full Moon. Psychologists point out that there is a difference between correlation and causation. The mere fact that two events happen at the same time doesn't mean that there is a cause and effect relationship between the two.\n\nNeopagans hold a monthly ritual called an Esbat at each Full Moon.\n\nMany people practicing traditional Chinese religions prepare their ritual offerings to their ancestors and deities on every Full Moon and New Moon.\n\n\nCalendars\nThe Islamic calendar and the traditional Chinese calendar are both based on the phases of the Moon. Neither calendar, however, begins i
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Somehow I believe it does. We are creatures of our environment. In the wild when there is a full moon, deer and other animals are quite active because they are able to see better during the night. The moon affects the tides and inherently weather patterns as well. I know I feel different on a rainy day than when the sun is shinning brightly outside. We evolved living in nature and though we often live quite disconnected from it now it is the nature of our primal being to be affected by the world around us.
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HUH? It was a full moon last night...
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It looks from your question that you think there's a place where the moon is always overhead. This is not the case. On the other hand, if you are between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn, there will be times when the moon is directly overhead.
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because it gets dark at night on this planet