WTF! DID ANYBODY SEE THE SUPER MOON LAST NIGHT?

Scientists says the full moon Saturday night will appear brighter and bigger than usual as it makes its closest approach to our planet in 18 years.

"It is called a supermoon because this is a very noticeable alignment that at first glance would seem to have an effect," Dr. James Garvin, the chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight center, said on his website.

While scientists say the phenemenon has no effect on the Earth, looney conspiracy theorists believe it causes natural disasters.

Astrologer Richard Noelle, the most prominent advocate of the supermoon-causes-chaos theory, blames the supermoon for last week's in Japan and the 2004 tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people.

"There were supermoons in 1955, 1974, 1992 and 2005. These years had their share of extreme weather and other natural events. Is the supermoon and these natural occurences a coincidence?" Accuweather.com blogger Mark Paquette wrote earlier this month.

Most scientists, including Garvin, advise to just enjoy the cool site - and ignore what they call bunk theories about the powers of the supermoon.

"The effects on Earth from a supermoon are minor," he wrote on the NASA website. "And according to the most detailed studies by terrestrial seismologists and volcanologists, the combination of the moon being at its closest to Earth in its orbit, and being in its 'full moon' configuration (relative to the Earth and Sun), should not affect the internal energy balance of the Earth since there are lunar tides every day."


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