Solstice moon was like a huge strawberry treat

Hmmm...science? Well, of course being the idiotic moron that I am (but a resourceful one at that), I looked it up. So here's a little lesson for you thousands of other idiotic morons. The Native Americans came up with names for each of the recurring full moons to keep track of the seasons. I don't know, but I remember learning about Native Americans in history, not science.

My teachers must have been ignorant as well. :)

I am grateful the Pilot posted the story yesterday. I took my youngest son and we headed towards the beach to see if it was really true. According to my 9 year old, "The moon's not a strawberry, Mom, it's a giant cheese wheel!" We thought it was wonderful.

It's always nice to see things through the eyes of a child. We all should do it more often.

I will go with you on the planets, not counting Pluto... But come on 10 stars. That is ridiculous to think some is a buffoon because they can name 10 stars of the top of their head. I love science and I can't even name 10 stars, except the North Star and the Sun. Would you also consider some dumb if they couldn’t recite the periodic table from memory, I can’t do that either. I guess I’m just not that smart. I can explain String Theory and how it could relate to alternate universes though, watched a very interesting pro-am on the Science Channel about that.

"Strawberry Moon" refers to the time of year the moon is full - NOT its actual color. It is akin to saying "Harvest Moon" or "Hunters' Moon" and it does NOT occur every June 18. It just happens to be June 18 this year.

The lack of even simple scientific knowledge in this country is very sad. I suspect more Americans read and believe their horoscope daily than can list the planets in the solar system or name ten stars other than out sun. But that's ok - ignorance is bliss. Just keep believing what the government tells you to believe and everything will be fine.

It can be full whenever the government wants it to be full, it's just a projection on a giant screen. Sheesh, pay attention already.

There are some other pieces here confusing me a lot more. The moon can't be full on the first, again now, and again on June 30, and it can't do this "every year on June 18"--the lunar calendar is what we based things on, but it's different than our 30/31 day business. The solstice comes at the same time each year--although even those dates vary by a day at times, don't they--leap years? But the moon may or may not be full in the days leading up to it. Lots of the quoted parts seem to be referring to different years, don't they?

Maybe I didn't pay enough attention in science class.

Watch your clauses Terri. You were a couple of commas short in your epistle.

As for someone whose profession is composition, yes, they should know proper technique. It is what they get paid for. As for everyone else, as long as you get your message across, who cares? There are plenty of intelligent people out there that choose to not follow proven science; evolution, global warming and so on... and there are plenty of intelligent people that can’t do a lick of math. We all have our niche.

It looked like a normal full moon to me. I was disappointed, it wasn't larger then normal and it was the normal yellow-orange. I got the family all excited over nothing. Two thumbs down from me.

As far as "English" goes, I was horrible at grammar, composition, spelling and literature in grade school but I excelled in Math and Science. Today I do very well for myself as an IT professional. Does it matter to my employer or me that I can’t spell or my grammar isn’t the best, no. What matters is my ability to write structured, logical code and analyze data. As long as the message is conveyed I could careless if someone writes “site” or “sight”, if they were speaking to you, would you know the difference?

Will we be able to see it again tonight???

That would be one awful "strawberry treat" as, so far, it's a big, yellow full looking moon.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

MMMmmmMMMmmmMMM... Strawberries....MMMmmmMMMmmmMMM...

"Speaking of not having anything better to do, I've noticed that certain people spend a heck of a lot of time posting on this Web site."

I does my best to! :)

Mispellers, mis-spellers...oh who cares...I was productive today, mowed the lawn, weed-whacked, cleaned the street gutters and to top it off, got a good laugh out of the debate over "site" and "sight". Can we debate fish vs fishes? Which one is the plural form? If you have one plate, you have to was a dish, but if you have 10 plates, then you have to wash the dishes. So....if you caught one fish, you have a fish, but if you caught 10, then you have 10 fishes. I'm sure there is a run-on sentence in here somewhere. I think text messaging is going to be the down fall of the English language. Kids already "write" in text language. We're doomed.

Correcting bad grammar and spelling (not people) has been, is, and always will be one of my lifelong ambitions. Correcting sourpusses who object to that is another!

Speaking of not having anything better to do, I've noticed that certain people spend a heck of a lot of time posting on this Web site.
:)

and that would be YEP. Chuckles!

Yet, it would be. It's also called a typo.
:)

Wouldn't that be "life long" ?

:D

"Thanks to the low status of English in our schools, people in their 20s, 30s and even 40s don't know the difference between hundreds of words such as "site" and "sight." The Pilot is fortunate to have readers literate enough to see errors and care about correcting them."

Don't you people have any thing better to do, or is correcting people your live long ambition?

I thought everyone knew the moon conspiracies were the work of the Illuminati.

Of course there are more pressing problems, but it's sad that more people don't care about good English, especially when people who should be exemplars of the language -- reporters, editors, teachers, even writers and others who hold graduate degrees from top universities -- can't do the job. (I recently read a book by one of the country's most notable lawyers, who describes an object as "laying" on the ground. Obviously it got by the book's editors, too. Just one of many errors in current books.) Thanks to the low status of English in our schools, people in their 20s, 30s and even 40s don't know the difference between hundreds of words such as "site" and "sight." The Pilot is fortunate to have readers literate enough to see errors and care about correcting them.

You found us out! The AIDS virus we planted didn't work, so we are going to give the world "Pink Eye"!!

It should be something interesting to see. And to see what all the conspiracy theorists come up with about it. It has to be the result of a Clinton/Bush/Cheney/Obama/McCain/Republican/Democrat/illegal immigrant/Russian/Bildenberger/space alien plot somehow! Something like this should be great for bringing the nuts out . . .

I think it's even funnier that the web SITE link listed to click on at the end of this article does not work. Now, THAT's an overSIGHT.

Are you telling me there are no more pressing problems to you folks than parsing words in a news column? Get a life and please comment on something worthwhile. Anyway it's going to be a nice NITE and I hope you all feel VARY WEIL. GoodBY

I was commenting on the moon being a "site" to see, versus sight. Glad to see the Pilot corrected it. Orion is 100% correct... timeliness is no excuse for turning a blind eye to grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. when your job is to inform and entertain with words. That's like the oil change place forgetting to put the cap back on your oil pan when done with your oil change simply because they were trying to get you out of the door faster.

it was indeed 'site', and as a result of our posting it is now 'sight', i do hope everyone realize that these are interns writing for the pilot, it's some summer gig to gain experience in the journalism community.
thanks again, and kudo's to trackermw.

I have no doubt that Pilot Online's best editors are its readers/posters. I am sure the original article said the "site of the moon," as I have seen many corrections to stories after they are put online and berated by us, the public editors. I often wonder if the reporters' children are writing the articles sometimes.

Then again, as was stated a few days ago, Pilot Online and The Pilot are completely different as the website has to get stuff up fast. There's no excuse for poor writing, grammar and spelling when your profession is word-smithing to hold a person's attention...

trackermw was challenging 'site' vice 'sight' pink moon will be a sight to see, web site isn't being challenged. I take pause with comparing
a pink moon to a strawberry, i prefer a comparison to 'pink shoes', that was a sight to see on the front page, wu wu. -
I know i will be berated by tracker dude for whatever reason, bring it on.