Blood red moon

Terrified Moon Gibbon people are crawling under the tables already, convinced that the Gibbon Moon is about to wreak destruction in the Lunar Eclipse. I'm encouraging them by telling them that the moon will go white again. And also telling them they won't be able to see the moon, because the skies are totally overcast. To which they reply, if the skies are overcast how will they be able to tell that the moon's gone white again? And then they go off for another scream.

It's a constant mystery to me. How can they accept science sufficiently to believe that the eclipse is going to happen according to a scientific prediction - and yet they can't trust it to tell them the eclipse will end? And where does this story about the Clangers spring up every time there's a Lunar eclipse? Do the Moon Gibbon Folk think there is an endless supply of Clangers up there?

It's a constant source of wonder to me, how people can live where science, religion and children's entertainment overlap and not understand the difference between the three. Ah well, nothing for it. Time to put the old pointy hat on, get outside onto the Platform of Sightings, look to the South East and wonder if there's going to be anything to see.