What does "Shoot the moon" mean?
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"shoot the moon" is a phrase from a card game. It refers to the card game Hearts. To "shoot the moon" one takes all the hearts (13) and the queen of spades in the course of the thirteen tricks. This gives your opponents 26 points each, which is a good thing since in Hearts low score wins.
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i don't see what you mean but this i can say about the moon. the night sky in australia is normally clear and i am fascinated when i see the moon through its cycle ; full moon, 1st quarter, last quarter and new moon. i am the one smiling not the moon. at new moon cycle i am the one frowning not the moon
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The web can help, though not all languages literally translate well, I've offered the first part of the translation below....\n\nWhen you become sleepy yourself next to my Then ones not they are left doubts that still the indecision exists love that is in my I I would send it to the moon to live with you the solitude on every day That between tears grew I will move away It of my For amarte at all costs For amarte frequently In spite of as much badly That it turns surroundings our When you become sleepy yourself next to my Then ones not I have left doubts that still love exists I know that still exists love The discussions of both Knowing who will be the guilty That matters to us already In our world that is very great Affection mine we land on water ourselves Much much more... Beyond violencía Beyond madness In spite of as much badly That one will not finish When you become sleepy yourself next to my Then ones not I have left doubts that still love exists I know that still exists love I know that still love exists For amarte at all costs For amarte frequently In spite of as much badly That it turns surroundings our When you become sleepy yourself next to my Then not me that they are left doubts that still exists love
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it's because they use the moon to navigate.  artificial light confuses them.
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It would go a LONG ways before it hit the lunar surface, since there's no aerodynamic friction loss since there's no atmosphere.\n\nBullets are self contained and will project a bullet without an atmosphere.\n\nThe Moon's escape velocity is considerable lower than that of Earth, at 2.38 km/s vs. 11.19 km/s, but most guns available to the public have muzzle velocities of not more than 0.350 km/s\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_velocity
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A missle is fired from a base on the ground. It is designed to fly low, or to fly really high and come back down straight, to hit another target on the ground.
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I like to chat on the moon. It can get a bit chilly, but if you prepare in advance with a thermal suit, it is just fine. Also you can bounce really high while chatting.
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the moon is always there, but it is probably a new moon, a phase of the moon where the sun doesn't shine light on it at the popsition that we can see it. The other stages include combinations of waning, waxing & gibbious and cresent
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The shutter exposure time is too fast. On the moon, the sun was up, and the astronaut suits were white. It was really really bright, so they changed the exposure time. Ask any professional photographer.\n\nOh, and to the first answerer, bull s***.
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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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It has nothing whatsoever to do with Donald Trump.\n\nIt is an analogy from the discharge of a firearm.  During the civil war and earlier it was common to refer to the discharge of a musket or rifle as "fired", meaning the slug was shot.  When you fired something, obviously the slug (or bullet) was sent away at high speed, never to be seen again, and no one really cared.  It was gone quickly and for good.  Likewise, when a person got "fired" he was "shot" out of the company, quickly and completely, gone for good and again, no one really cared.\n\nAnd the term predates Donald by at least 200 years.
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Hmm-m. Interesting question...\n\nI thought about this for a while and see no\nreason why this math would not be correct.\nAssuming that the bullet did explode when\nstruck by the firing pin, and the bullet left \nthe end of the barrel of the gun at say \n2000 feet per second velocity...\n\n2000 fps = 1800 Mph\n\nThe Moon is 239,000 miles from Earth.\nLet's say you were 10 miles up in the sky\nwhen you fired the gun.  Distance = 238,990 Miles.\n\nSo, 238,990 / 1800 = 132.7 hours \n\nSince there is no atmosphere in space to slow down the \nbullet as it traveled, we can estimate that the bullet would \ncontinue traveling at 1800 mph for the entire trip. The \ngravitational pull of the Moon would influence the bullet's\nvelocity somewhat towards the end of its flight, but my\nfigures show that with 1/6 the gravity of Earth, the Moon\nwould not significantly change the time of flight.\n\nAnswer: 132 Hours.   or   5.5 Days.\n\nNow, I have two questions for you:\n\n#1.)  If the rifle did fire off in space, would you see any smoke?\n\n#2.)  If you were 10 miles up in the atmosphere - say 50,000 ft.,\nhow fast must you be going, to be able to remain at that altitude,\nand in which direction?\n\nYour question makes reference to the Space Station as the point of firing the gun. In my answer above I did not use that as the platform from which the gun was fired because I do not have at my finger tips the approximate altitude of the Space Station though I know it is much more than 50,000 Ft. I also did not take into account the thin atmosphere which exists at 50,000 feet, or the pull backwards on the bullet by the gravity of Earth. These omissions were made simply to run the numbers and see what I came up with since I thought this was an interesting question. Now, having dispensed with the mundane aspects of my quick math, let's discuss the real problem with this question...\n\nThe Earth is spinning. The Moon is orbiting the Earth at a certain velocity, hence it is a moving target. The moving target is being shot at from a moving platform. If you have any hope of hitting the Moon with your bullet, you would have to fire at the place where the Moon will be 5.5 days from the time of firing your gun, not at where the Moon is now. To do that requires more math than a few simple divisions of distance and velocity. For example, the moon swings completely around the Earth at a radius of 238,900 miles in 27.3 Earth days. The circumfrence of that circle is Pi x D = 1,500,292 miles (assuming the orbit is a circle, which it is not). So, the velocity that the Moon is moving away from its present spot right this minute is 2,290 miles per hour.  Since the Moon rises and sets on our horizon each night, you can see that in our calculation, the Moon would have passed overhead at least 5 times in 5.5 days. So your rifle would have to be pointed at the place you calculate the Moon should be at in 5.5 days.        \nRegards,\nZah
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the moon just to say i did
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The Moon gets layed every evening? Dang Moon gets better action than me.
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I could find no real origin in any of my reference books, other than suggesting the analogy with firing a gun. However, one day, I was sent the following which appeared in the Clevedon, Somerset, Civic Society Newsletter for Summer 1996:\n"We discovered recently that the word 'fired', meaning discharged from a job originated on Mendip. It comes from Item 6 of the Laws of Mendip Miners. \n"If any man... do pick or steale any lead or ore to the value of xiiid (=13 pence), the Lord or his Officer may arrest all his lead and Oare House or hearthes with his Grooves and Workes and keep them in forfeit... and shall take the person that hath soe affeended and bring him where his house or worke and all his tooles and instruments are... and put him into his house or worke and set fire in all together about him and banish him..." Fired indeed!
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No That's just a state of mind. There is no way that the phase of the moon will affect how happy I am today. If you constantly believe and think that, you may automatically find yourself wanting to be happy/sad/angry when a full moon rolls around.
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it appears to be a slang terms for "pulling your gun out of a holster and shooting someone" - so it wouldn't apply to the vice president, he had his shotgun out before he shot\n\nbut it also seems to me "hot tempered woman" and stuff like that.