LIFE HUMOR
The Day the Moon Wobbled Over Planet Earth
It was not a pretty sight.
A wobble down memory lane
One quiet evening a short time ago, sometime in the COVID era, having prerecorded my favorite news programs so that I could fast-forward through pandemics, plagues, riots, wars, fires, building collapses, heat waves, tropical storms, lying politicians, and filthy rich morons wasting precious resources to flap about in outer space, I eventually turned to the science news for some blessed relief.
Big mistake. “NASA warns moon ‘wobble’ could lead to more flooding…” was not what I wanted to fall asleep thinking about.
Apparently, our stable, reliable, waxing and waning moon isn’t any of those things. Instead, in an 18.6-year cycle, there’s a slight change in its orbit, something scientists have known about for a long time. This time, according to scientists, it was going to cause some serious problems here on Earth.
Well, maybe they were right, but I have evidence that it started happening that day right there in northwestern Washington, where I lived at the time.
The night before
I went to bed earlier than usual, having been pummeled half to death in physical therapy that morning and…
