I subscribed to an online Page-A-Day calendar last year, and for Valentine's, they gave me a code to subscribe to one for free this year. So I opted for the Fact or Crap calendar. Browsing January, I got the answer to a puzzlement: Why do you see the whole moon even when it's new? Y'know, you look up, see that bare line of a crescent, but can also make out the rest of the circle, the rest of the moon. Why isn't the dark part completely invisible? Earthshine, that's why. Just like the moon, the Earth reflects sunlight, too - enough to let you make out the whole moon even when it's dark. The strength of the earthshine depends on Earth's cloud cover. I knew the Earth reflected light, like the moon, if not as well; I just never realized that was why a new moon is visible. UPDATE: There was a derailment in the comments; two trains of thought couldn't stay on the same track. My American pop culture references do not extend to TV-series of the 1950...
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There's a footballer with his son and other than that no one wants to buy any meat!
Sorry, just being cynical, I'm in that kind of mood;)
Tom
PS. I miss those fantastically clean streets of "eastern" Europe. There'd be some road kill and someone selling smoked fish (and road kill) if this was a street near me!
Tom, not so much vegetarians as an awful lot of people who prefer the prepackaged offerings of modern supermarkets.