STRANGE THINGS IN THE OCEAN (OCEAN CREATURE PHOTO BLOG)

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Common Octopus

Photograph by Luis Miguel Cortes, My Shot

The common octopus is anything but ordinary. This most intelligent of the invertebrates uses an amazing suite of abilities to avoid predators like sharks, eels, and dolphins. A master of camouflage, the octopus can change color and shape to remain unseen, and release a “smoke screen” of black ink when spotted. Even if an octopus has been nabbed, the game isn’t over—it can simply shed an arm to escape trouble and regrow the appendage later.

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Yeti Crab

Photograph by Ifremer A. Fifis, Census of Marine Life

The yeti crab is so unusual that a whole new family of animal had to be created to classify it. Kiwa hirsuta was found on the floor of the 7,540-foot-deep (2,300-meter-deep) Pacific Ocean some 900 miles (1,500 kilometers) south of Easter Island. In many ways the newly discovered species remains a mystery. Its hairy pincer arms host colonies of bacteria, which it may cultivate for food, for protection from toxic fluids issuing from nearby volcanic vents, or as “sensors” that help the blind animal find a mate.

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Portuguese Man-of-War

Photograph by Jennifer Kiewit, Your Shot

Often mistaken for a jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war is actually made up of a colony of organisms working together. Its tentacles can extend 165 feet (50 meters) below the surface, although 30 feet (10 meters) is more the average.

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Giant Isopod

Photograph by David Schrichte/Seapics.com

Related to shrimp and crabs, the giant isopod is a deep-sea crustacean that makes its home on the ocean floor. It is the largest of the known isopods, which on land includes the relatively tiny pill bug.

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Giant Clam Siphon

Photograph by Mike French, My Shot

A giant clam’s siphon is used to draw in water to filter and consume passing plankton. Though South Pacific legends describe clams that lie in wait to trap unsuspecting swimmers or swallow them whole, no account of a human death by giant clam has ever been substantiated.

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Humboldt Squid

Photograph by Brian J. Skerry, National Geographic

Living hundreds of feet deep in the eastern Pacific, jumbo squid frequently rise to the surface and will attack anything—including divers. Their average size is about four to five feet (one to two meters) long and 150 to 200 pounds (70 to 90 kilograms), but some behemoths can reach twelve feet (four meters), including tentacles.

http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/photos/marine-worms/

Peanut Worm

Photograph by Darlyne A. Murawski, National Geographic

The peanut worm has a proboscis that resembles an elephant’s trunk, as well as a mouth that boasts an impressive array of tentacles. This bottom burrower feeds on organic materials found in mud and sand, and when done feasting it can turn the proboscis inside out to retract it inside its body. Peanut worms are often tiny but can reach 1.5 feet (0.5 meters) in length.

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Spaghetti Worm

Photograph by Darlyne A. Murawski, National Geographic

This studio shot reveals a spaghetti worm’s body, which typically lies hidden in sediment or rocky crevices while its food-gathering tentacles wave overhead. Though the worm’s body is only 6 inches (15 centimeters) long, its tentacles may spread out over six times that length. Spaghetti worm tentacles employ grooves to channel small organic particles to the worm’s mouth, or simply grab and stuff larger morsels. If a tentacle is lost or snapped up by a fish, a new one can be grown to take its place.

http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/photos/ocean-jellyfish/

Mosaic Jellyfish

Photograph by Melissa Fiene, My Shot

A mosaic jellyfish floats serenely in the waters of the Coral Sea, about 100 nautical miles from Cairns, Australia. Jellyfish are ubiquitous in the Earth’s oceans. They can thrive in warm water and cold, along coastlines or out in the deep. Their bodies are about 95 percent water. And though they have no brains, jellyfish have somehow been smart enough to survive for over 500 million years.

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Purple-Striped Jellyfish

Photograph by David Doubilet, National Geographic

A large, purple-striped jellyfish floats in the waters of California’s Monterey Bay, where they sometimes arrive en masse. This jelly can grow up to three feet (one meter) in diameter and appear rather formidable. But its stinging tentacles are used to bring in mostly smaller prey, including zooplankton, larval fish, and fish eggs.

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Jelly-Riding Crab

Photograph by Hannah Johnson, My Shot

A crab clings to its floating host as both are swept out to sea near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. One role jellyfish play in the marine ecosystem is the transport of other animals across the ocean.

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Frilled Shark

Photograph by Awashima Marine Park, Getty Images

Humans rarely encounter frilled sharks, which prefer to remain in the oceans' depths, up to 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) below the surface. Considered living fossils, frilled sharks bear many physical characteristics of ancestors who swam the seas in the time of the dinosaurs. This 5.3-foot (1.6-meter) specimen was found in shallow water in Japan in 2007 and transferred to a marine park. It died hours after being caught.

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Fangtooth Fish

Photograph by David Wrobel, SeaPics

The nightmarish fangtooth is among the deepest-living fish ever discovered. The fish's normal habitat ranges as high as about 6,500 feet (2,000 meters), but it has been found swimming at icy, crushing depths near 16,500 feet (5,000 meters). Fangtooth fish reach only about six inches (16 centimeters) long, but their namesake teeth are the largest, proportionate to body size, of any fish.

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Vampire Squid

Photograph by Kim Reisenbichler, National Geographic

Vampire squid is an apt name for a creature that lurks in the lightless depths of the ocean. Comfortable at 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) below the surface, these diminutive cephalopods navigate the blackness with eyes that are proportionately the largest of any animal on Earth. The species gets its name from its dark, webbed arms, which it can draw over itself like a cloak. It occupies the mesopelagic and bathypelagic regions of temperate and tropical world oceans. The animal's physiology has adapted to enable it to live at the very low oxygen levels found within the oxygen minimum layers of these regions.

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Pacific Viperfish

Photograph by David Wrobel, SeaPics

The Pacific viperfish has jagged, needlelike teeth so outsized it can't close its mouth. These deep-sea demons reach only about 8 inches (25 centimeters) long. They troll the depths up to 13,000 feet (4,400 meters) below, luring prey with bioluminescent photophores on their bellies.

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Wolffish

Photograph by Espen Rekdal, SeaPics

An orthodontist's dream, an Atlantic wolffish displays the hardware it uses to crush mollusks, shellfish, and sea urchins. These tough-looking predators swim as deep as 2,000 feet (600 meters) and range from the Scandinavian coast to Cape Cod to the Mediterranean.

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Does The Moon Have Any Effect on Human Nature, Emotions or Creativity?? (Magic Moon Photo Blog)

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Does the Moon have any effect on Human Nature, Emotions or Creativity?  That is your point to ponder as You scroll through the Blog tonight.
We all know the Moon is a rock, a very big rock. How can a rock have anything to do with Human Emotions?  "No connection between the Moon and human behavior" is what some say.

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The Moon and Your Emotions

Posted by The Situationist Staff on August 17, 2007

Despite its barrenness, the Moon has been a fixation for humans since the origin of our species. The Romans and Greeks, for instance, thought it was a goddess. Much more recently, it spawned a space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. It has also provided great fodder for werewolf stories and the like.

Aside from its cultural and political ramifications, the moon affects the Earth in physical ways. Most meaningful, it’s gravitational pull, which varies depending on the distance between the Earth and Moon, helps to create our oceans’ tides. Thislink provides a layperson’s description of the phenomenon:

Tides are created because the Earth and the moon are attracted to each other, just like magnets are attracted to each other. The moon tries to pull at anything on the Earth to bring it closer. But, the Earth is able to hold onto everything except the water. Since the water is always moving, the Earth cannot hold onto it, and the moon is able to pull at it. Each day, there are two high tides and two low tides. The ocean is constantly moving from high tide to low tide, and then back to high tide. There is about 12 hours and 25 minutes between the two high tides.

While there is uncertainty as to what the Earth would be like without the Moon, it’s clear that it would be a very different place, with very dissimilar wind and water patterns. So the Moon matters a great deal to Earth and all of its life.

But does it matter to us, individually? Some believe that the moon’s varying gravitational pull affects our brains and bodies in ways that we do not appreciate. After-all, the human body is mostly water, so if the moon moves bodies of water, why not us? If this sounds crazy, keep in mind that many believe it to be true, including those who are highly-educated. An article by Alina Iosif and Bruce Ballon of the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry explains:

A study by Rotton and Kelly in 1985 showed that 50% of university students believed that people act strangely during a full moon. In 1995, Vance reported that as many as 81% of mental health professionals believed that the full moon alters individual behaviour.

Perhaps these beliefs are influenced by some in the scientific community, including psychiatrist Arnold Lieber, who authored the controversial “Lunar Effects: Biological Tides and Human Emotions.” In it, he concluded that a full moon leads to higher homicide rates and other nefarious effects. His conclusions, writes Chris Francesani and Brittany Bacon on ABC News, are supported by others:

Studies have found that cops and hospital workers are among the strongest believers in the notion that more crime and trauma occur on nights when the moon is full . . . Dr. David Mandell of the Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh and some colleagues studied existing data on health-care myths and did a 2005 study of area nurses. He said he found that 69 percent of surgical nurses in his study believed that a full moon led to more chaos and patients that night.

Now the bad news for those who believe: Most scientific evidence indicates that the moon does not appreciably influence our bodies or minds. As Iosif and Ballon write,

Not everyone realizes that, although the moon is able to move oceans, this is achieved only because the moon’s gravity acts over the 12 800-km diameter of the earth, which pulls back with a comparable force. But the moon exerts no influence on smaller bodies of water such as lakes and even some seas, and the difference between a person’s weight in the presence of the moon’s gravity and his or her weight if there were no moon is “less than the effect of a mosquito on one’s shoulder.”

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To read a study by physicist Robert Seeberger on how there is no connection between lunar activity and industrial accidents, click here. To read other accounts indicating no connection between the Moon and human behavior, see University of Florida psychologist James Rotton’s Moonshine and a post on Psychology and Crime Newsdiscussing the research of University of Washington bioengineering professor Eric Chudler.

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The Moon

The moon drives your deepest feelings, the fine-tuning of your character, your instinct and intuition, your emotions, and your reactions. The moon also rules your private life, especially your home. Since the moon is feminine in nature, it rules your mother and how you perceive her, and does the same for any other important females in your life, including your wife, girlfriend, or a female boss, your grandmother, girlfriend or wife.

If the Sun represents where you are going, the Moon signifies where you've been. More specifically, the moon rules your history, your background, emotional development, and your roots. Your ability to get in touch with your feelings is dictated by planetary aspects to the Moon.

The dynamics surrounding the moon can also indicate the state of your health, especially if you are female. The moon rules the sign of Cancer, the stomach and breasts, and the light of night (obviously, moonlight). The moon, which takes approximately 28 days to orbit the zodiac, spends two to three days in each sign every month.

Every month there is a new moon. Depending where it falls in your horoscope, it shows which areas would be favored for new beginnings. A full moon arrives two weeks after the new moon; depending on where that moon falls in the chart, it could be time to reap the benefits or consequences of earlier actions.

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Clair de lune (Debussy), 

third movement of Suite bergamasque by Claude Debussy, a piano depiction of a Paul Verlaine poem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_de_Lune

Clair de Lune

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Clair de Lune" is French for "moonlight". It may refer to:

Music:

• Clair de lune (Debussy), third movement of Suite bergamasque by Claude Debussy, a piano depiction of a Paul Verlaine poem
• Clair de lune (Fauré), from Op. 46 "Two Songs" (1887) by Gabriel Fauré
• Clair De Lune (band), rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota
• "Clair de Lune", song on Madonna (...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead album)
• "Clair de Lune / Ballerina", a song on Crystal Ball

Other:

• "Clair de Lune" (poem), the poem by Paul Verlaine, published 1869
• "Clair de lune", a poem written by French author and poet Victor Hugo
• Clair de Lune, 1884 short story collection by Guy de Maupassant
• Clair de lune, 1921 play by Blanche Oelrichs, filmed in 1932
• Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, a play by Terrence McNally

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• "Au Clair de la Lune", a French folk song

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Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1801 and dedicated in 1802 to his pupil, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, it is one of Beethoven's most popular compositions for the piano.

Names

The first edition of the score is headed Sonata quasi una fantasia, a title this work shares with its companion piece, Op. 27, No. 1.^[2] Grove Music Onlinetranslates the Italian title as "sonata in the manner of a fantasy".^[3]

The name "Moonlight Sonata" has its origins in remarks by the German music critic and poet Ludwig Rellstab. In 1832, five years after Beethoven's death, Rellstab likened the effect of the first movement to that of moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne.^[4] Within ten years, the name "Moonlight Sonata" ("Mondscheinsonate" in German) was being used in German^[5] and English^[6] publications. Later in the nineteenth century, it could be said that the sonata was "universally known" by that name.^[7]

Many critics have objected to the subjective, Romantic nature of the title "Moonlight", which has at times been called "a misleading approach to a movement with almost the character of a funeral march"^[8] and "absurd".^[9] Other critics have approved of the sobriquet, finding it evocative^[10] or in line with their own associations with the work.^[11] Gramophone founder Compton Mackenzie found the title "harmless", remarking that "it is silly for austere critics to work themselves up into a state of almost hysterical rage with poor Rellstab", adding that "What these austere critics fail to grasp is that unless the general public had responded to the suggestion of moonlight in this music Rellstab's remark would long ago have been forgotten.

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Nocturnes, Op. 9 (Chopin)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Nocturnes, Op. 9 are a set of three nocturnes written byFrédéric Chopin between 1830 and 1832 and dedicated to Madame Camille Pleyel. The work was published in 1833.



The opening bars and main theme of No.1
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Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2

Chopin composed his popular Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2 when he was about twenty. Like much of Chopin's music, this nocturne is tinged with melancholy.

This popular nocturne is in rounded binary form (A, A, B, A, B, A) with coda, C. The A and B sections become increasingly ornamented with each recurrence. The penultimate bar utilizes considerable rhythmic freedom, indicated by the instruction, senza tempo (without tempo). Nocturne in E-flat major opens with a legato melody, mostly played piano, containing graceful upward leaps which becomes increasingly wide as the line unfolds. This melody is heard again three times during the piece. With each repetition, it is varied by ever more elaborate decorative tones and trills. The nocturne also includes a subordinate melody, which is played with rubato.

A sonorous foundation for the melodic line is provided by the widely spaced notes in the accompaniment, connected by the damper pedal. The waltz like accompaniment gently emphasizes the 12/8 meter, 12 beats to the measure subdivided into four groups of 3 beats each.

The nocturne is reflective in mood until it suddenly becomes passionate near the end. The new concluding melody begins softly but then ascends to a high register and is played forcefully in octaves, eventually reaching the loudest part of the piece, marked fortissimo. After a brilliant trill-like passage, the excitement subsides; the nocturne ends calmly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnes,_Op._9_(Chopin)

Moon in fiction

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Moon has been the subject of many works of art and literature and the inspiration for countless others. It is a motif in the visual arts, the performing arts, poetry, prose and music.

Art and popular culture

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• The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a 10th century Japanese folktale, tells of a mysterious Moon Princess growing up on Earth as the adopted daughter of a bamboo cutter and his wife, dazzling human Princes and the Emperor himself with her beauty, and finally going back to her people at "The Capital of the Moon" (Tsuki-no-Miyako 月の都), leaving many broken hearts on Earth. It is among the first - possibly the very first - text of any culture assuming the Moon to be an inhabited world and describing travel between it and the Earth.
• John Heywood's Proverbes (1546) commented that "The moon is made of a greene cheese", "greene" meaning "not aged", but was probably being sarcastic. [1]
• One of the earliest fictional flights to the Moon took place on the pages of Ludovico Ariosto's well-known Italian romantic epic"Orlando furioso" (1516). The protagonist Orlando, having been thwarted in love, goes mad with despair and rampages through Europe and Africa, destroying everything in his path. The English knight Astolfo, seeking to find a cure for Orlando's madness, flies up to the Moon in Elijah's flaming chariot. In this depiction, the Moon is where everything lost on earth is to be found, including Orlando's wits, and Astolfo brings them back in a bottle and makes Orlando sniff them, thus restoring him to sanity.
• In the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, a newspaper reporter concocted a series of stories purporting to describe the discovery of life on the Moon, talking of such creatures as winged humanoids and goats.
• Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien was written in 1925 to console his son Michael, then four years old, for the loss of a beloved toy dog. In the story, the dog has flown to the Moon and had a whole series of amusing adventures there. The story was only published posthumously. In addition, Isil and the guidesman Tilion in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth cosmology are based in Tolkien's familiarity with Norse and Gaelic myths of the moon.
• Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928) was intended to be the last of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books. The Doctor, with his unique ability to communicate with animals, arrived in the Moon on the back of a giant moth and finds a considerably different kind of fauna (for example, Moon insects are far bigger than the local birds), and more startlingly, intelligent plants whose language he learns (as he never did with earthly plants). He also meets the Moon's single human inhabitant, a prehistoric man who has grown into an enormous giant due to lunar foods and conditions (which soon happens to the doctor himself). But it is doubtful whether he would ever be allowed to return to Earth.
• In C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, the Moon (Sulva) is described as being home to a race of extreme eugenicists. On the near side, the elite caste seems to have dispensed with organic existence altogether, by some means never clearly described; the only holdouts against this trend are an embattled minority on the far side. The response of the characters to this state of affairs varies according to their status: Professor Filostrato, of the wicked N.I.C.E., considers the Sulvans "[a] great race, further advanced than we", while the Christian champion Elwin Ransom describes them as "an accursed people, full of pride and lust."
• Goodnight Moon (1947) by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd.
• Winter Moon, a poem by Langston Hughes.
• Moon Palace (1989) by Paul Auster, one of his best-known and most complicated novels.

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• The End of the Moon by Laurie Anderson is a 90-minute monologue created as part of Anderson's two years as NASA artist-in-residence. It premiered in a two-week run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater in March 2005.
• Far Side of the Moon by Robert Lepage, a theatre creator/performer from Québec.

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[edit]Classical

• The Moonlight Sonata (1801) by Ludwig van Beethoven is probably the most widely recognised classical piece commonly called by a lunar title, but the composer never connected it with the moon. The name by which the piece is commonly known is due to the criticLudwig Rellstab's comparing the piece to the effect of moonlight on Lake Lucerne, several years after its composition.
• Clair de Lune ("Moonlight") by Debussy approaches the fame of the Moonlight Sonata. Debussy also wrote The Terrace for Moonlight.
• Song to the Moon appears in Antonín Dvořák's opera Rusalka (1900).
• An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht D.614, and several settings of An den Mond are among Franz Schubert's Lieder set poems with lunar subjects.
• Pierrot Lunaire, a modernist work by Arnold Schoenberg, treats the subject of a moon-struck Pierrot.
• Imagined Oceans, a work for voices and instruments by Karl Jenkins, deals with the various imagined seas of the moon
• Less widely known works include
  • To the Moonlight by Edward MacDowell.
  • Boro Budur in Moonlight by Leopold Godowsky.
  • Aria of the Moon by Petr Cvikl.
  • Der Mond, fairytale opera by Carl Orff.

[edit]Jazz

Many jazz standards have been inspired by the moon, some of the most notable examples are:

• "Shine On, Harvest Moon" (Jack Norworth, Nora Bayes)
• "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
• "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (Gus Edwards, Edward Madden)
• "I Wished on the Moon" (Dorothy Parker, Ralph Rainger)
• "Moon Song" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston)
• "Moondance" (Van Morrison)
• "Moonlight Becomes You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen)
• "Moonlight in Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn)
• "Moonlight Serenade" (Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish)
• "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Count Basie)
• "Reaching for the Moon" (Irving Berlin)
• "That Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane, Yip Harburg)

The Moon takes on several roles in the lyrics of these songs. In songs such as "Blue Moon", "No Moon at All", "Moonlight Serenade" and "Moonlight in Vermont", the Moon 'frames' or creates the atmosphere of romance that the protagonist finds themselves in.

The Moon is also viewed as an unobtainable object in songs such as "Reaching for the Moon", "I Wished on the Moon" and "Oh, You Crazy Moon", once again mirroring the situation of the protagonist.

Frank Sinatra recorded an entire album of songs written about the moon called Moonlight Sinatra, recalling the name of Beethoven'sMoonlight Sonata. Six years earlier, Mel Tormé recorded Swingin' On the Moon, in a similar concept.

[edit]Pop and rock

• "Moonlight Shadow" by Mike Oldfield on the 1983 Mike Oldfield' record Crises.
• "You Are the Moon" by The Hush Sound on the 2006 album Like Vines.
• "Me and the Moon" by Something Corporate on the 2003 album North.
• The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Pink Floyd's concept album.
• Pink Moon, an album by Nick Drake, featuring solo acoustic guitar and lyrics often relating to nighttime.
• "Surfer Moon" by Brian Wilson on the 1963 Beach Boys' record Surfer Girl.
• "To the Moon and Back" by Australian duo Savage Garden, about a girl who would do anything including go to the moon and back to get the heart of a man she loves.
• Trout Mask Replica (1969), an album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. The moon plays a role in the lyrics' often pantheistic tendencies, appearing more or less directly in: Frownland, The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back, Ella Guru, Moonlight on Vermont, Sweet Sweet Bulbs (in the form of the titaness Phoebe from Greek mythology), When Big Joan Sets Up, Sugar 'n Spikes, and Steal Softly Thru Snow.
• Bark at the Moon (1983), the fourth full-length album by Ozzy Osbourne, featuring the song of the same name.
• Moon Pix, an album by indie-rock singer Cat Power. Several allusions to the moon are made in the songs of this album.
• La Lune, a 2000 album by English soprano Sarah Brightman.
• "Hijo de la Luna", a song by the 1980s Spanish Pop Band Mecano.
• The Moon & Antarctica, an album by Modest Mouse features themes of desolate places like Antarctica and the Moon
• "Shame on the Moon" by Bob Seger from the album The Distance.
• "Walking on the Moon" from The Police album Reggatta de Blanc.
• "Mira Luna", a song by Spanish singer Ana Belén.
• Moon Colony Bloodbath, a 2009 collaborative album by John Vanderslice and The Mountain Goats, loosely based on the concept of the lives of workers on a Lunar organ harvesting colony.
• "Ticket to the Moon"- musical group Electric Light Orchestra ( Time 1981.)
• "Man on the Moon"- musical group Sugar ( Copper Blue 1992.)

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• "The Call of the Wintermoon" by Immortal on the album Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism. The Moon encourages a Winterdemon to bathe in frosty winds.
• "Moondance" by Nightwish on the album Oceanborn.
• "Freezing Moon" by Mayhem from the album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
• "Swim To The Moon" by Between the Buried and Me from the album The Great Misdirect
• "Moonlight" by Podcast the Hero from the album "Scrupulous"

[edit]Science fiction

[edit]Literature

[edit]Early stories

Lucian's Icaromenippus and True History, written in the 2nd century AD, deal with imaginary voyages to the moon such as on a fountain after going past the Pillars of Hercules. The theme did not become popular until the 17th century, however, when the invention of thetelescope hastened the popular acceptance of the concept of "a world in the Moon", that is, that the Moon was an inhabitable planet, which might be reached via some sort of aërial carriage. The concept of another world, close to our own and capable of looking down at it from a distance, provided ample scope for satirical comments on the manners of the Earthly world. Among the early stories dealing with this concept are:

• Somnium (1541) by Juan Maldonado.
• The Dream (Somnium) (1634) by Johannes Kepler (written before 1610, but not published during Kepler's life). An Icelandic voyager is transported to the Moon by aërial demons; an occasion for Kepler to offer some of his astronomical theories in the guise of fiction.
• The Man in the Moone (1638) by Francis Godwin. A Spaniard flies to the Moon using a contraption pulled by geese.
• Voyage dans la Lune (1657) by Cyrano de Bergerac, inspired by Godwin.^[1] Cyrano is launched toward the moon by fireworks.
• The Consolidator (1705) by Daniel Defoe. Travels between China and the Moon on an engine called The Consolidator (a satire on the Parliament of England).
• A Voyage to Cacklogallinia (1727) by Samuel Brunt
• Syzygies and Lunar Quadratures Aligned to the Meridian of Mérida of the Yucatán by an Anctitone or Inhabitant of the Moon (1775), by Franciscan friar Manuel Antonio de Rivas
• Newest Voyage (1784) by Vasily Levshin. A protagonist flies in a self-constructed winged apparatus.
• The improbable adventures of Baron Münchhausen (1786) included two voyages to the Moon, and a through depiction of its flora and fauna.
• A Voyage to the Moon (1793) by Aratus (the penname of an anonymous British author, not the original Greek scientist)
• The Conquest of the Moon (1809) by Washington Irving. An invasion story meant as an allegory about treatment of Native Americansby European settlers in America.
• A Flight to the Moon (1813) by George Fowler.
• Land of Acephals (1824) by Wilhelm Küchelbecker. Flight in a balloon.
• A Voyage to the Moon (1827) by George Tucker.
• "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835) by Edgar Allan Poe features a repairer of bellows in Rotterdam who creates a giant balloon and an 'air compressor' to allow him to travel to the Moon.
• "Recollections of Six Days' Journey in the Moon. By An Aerio-Nautical Man" (1844). Published in the July and August issues of theSouthern Literary Messenger.
• In Les Exilés de la Terre [Exiled from Earth] (1887), by Paschal Grousset writing as André Laurie, Verne's lesser-known contemporary, a Sudanese mountain composed of pure iron ore is converted into a huge electro-magnet and catapulted to the Moon where the protagonists have various adventures.

[edit]First voyage

The first flight to the Moon was a popular topic of science fiction before the actual landing in 1969.

• From the Earth to the Moon (1865) by Jules Verne in which a projectile is launched from Florida and lands in the Pacific Ocean, not unlike the Apollo Program.
• The First Men in The Moon (1901) by H. G. Wells in which a spaceship gets to the moon with the aid of Cavorite -a material which shields out gravity. It is inhabitated by insect-like Selenites who are ruled by a Grand Lunar, and who prevent Cavor from returning to Earth after learning of humanity's warlike nature.
• Na srebrnym globie [The Silver Globe] (1903), by Polish writer Jerzy Żuławski in which a first expedition from Earth gives birth to a lunar society. The story was continued in Zwycięzca [The Conqueror] (1910) and Stara Ziemia [The Old Earth] (1911). This so-calledLunar Trilogy was the first modern Polish SF story. It was adapted to the screen as On the Silver Globe by Andrzej Żuławski.
• Trends is a 1939 short story by Isaac Asimov in which religious fanatics oppose a fictional first flight to the Moon in the 1970s.
• Prelude to Space is a 1951 novel by Arthur C. Clarke recounting the events leading up to a fictional first flight to the Moon in 1978.

[edit]Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein wrote extensively, prolifically, and inter-connectedly about first voyages and colonization of the Moon, which he most often called Luna.^[2] He also was involved with the films Destination Moon and Project Moonbase.

• "Requiem" 1940. A lyrical story about Harriman, the man who financed the first Moon landing (see also "The Man Who Sold the Moon", below).
• Rocket Ship Galileo 1947. A physicist and several prodigy teenagers convert a sub-orbital rocket ship to reach the moon where they are profoundly surprised and have to act quickly to deal with a malignant menace.
• "Columbus Was a Dope", as Lyle Monroe, 1947. In a bar on the Moon, a chance encounter reveals both deep and practical attitudes about space exploration.
• "The Long Watch" (aka "Rebellion on the Moon", 1948). An officer in charge of a nuclear arsenal on the Moon makes tough decisions.
• "Gentlemen, Be Seated!", 1948. A dangerous leak develops in a lunar tunnel and the men devise a unique way to deal with it until a repair can be made.
• "The Black Pits of Luna", 1948. A Boy Scout visits cities on the Moon.
• "The Man Who Sold the Moon", a 1949 short story, first published in 1951. In this story, a prequel to "Requiem" (above), events revolve around a fictional first Moon landing in 1978.
• "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon", 1949. A 21st century Boy Scout on the Moon encounters numerous hazards and predicaments in a bid to earn Eagle Scout (Moon).
• The Rolling Stones 1952. The exceptional Stone family lives on the moon and after extensive background and preparation of their own ship they depart to tour and live in the Solar System.
• "The Menace From Earth", 1957. A lunar teenage girl's romance is disrupted by a newcomer. Extensive descriptions, most noteworthy is the muscle-power flying in a huge sealed cavern.
• "Searchlight", 1962. A short-short piece about a rescue on the Moon.
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966). In this Hugo Award winning novel, the moon is a penal colony, especially for political prisoners and their descendants. They revolt for independence from Earth-based control. The novel discusses issues of sustainability, health, transportation, family organization, artificial intelligence, and political governance.
• The Cat Who Walks Through Walls 1985. About a third of the book takes place on a Free Luna that is a continuation of the Luna inThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress (TMiaHM above). Free-enterprise is rampant Luna City is called L-City. Hazel Stone from The Rolling Stones and TMiaHM appears.

[edit]Colonization

Human settlements on the Moon are found in many science fiction novels, short stories and films. Not all have the Moon colony itself as central to the plot.

• Lost Paradise (1936) by C. L. Moore. This Northwest Smith story tells how the once-fertile Moon became an airless wasteland.
• Earthlight (1955) by Arthur C. Clarke. A settlement on the Moon becomes caught in the crossfire of a war between Earth and a federation of Mars and Venus.
• The Trouble With Tycho (1960) by Clifford D. Simak. A young lunar prospector seeks to find a lost expedition to the Moon.
• A Fall of Moondust (1961) by Arthur C. Clarke. A lunar dust boat full of tourists sinks into a sea of Moon dust.
• The Matthew Looney series of children's books by Jerome Beatty Jr (written 1961 - 1978) is an amusing set of stories about an inhabited Moon whose government is intent on invading the Earth.
• The Lathe of Heaven (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin. In one of the alternate realities in the novel lunar bases are established by 2002, only to be attacked by aliens from Aldebaran (who in another reality turn out to be benign).
• The Gods Themselves (1973) by Isaac Asimov. The third section of the novel takes place in a Lunar settlement in the year 2100.
• Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels (1974) by George R. R. Martin. This story takes place on Earth, devastated by nuclear war 500 years earlier and being explored by descendants of a small remnant of humanity that survived on a lunar colony.
• Inherit the Stars (1977) by James P. Hogan is the first book of the Minervan Experiment series. The Moon turns out to have previously orbited Minerva, a planet that exploded to form the asteroid belt 50,000 years ago.
• Lunar Descent by Allen Steele (1991) Set in 2024, the novel describes a base called Descartes Station.
• Transmigration of Souls (1996) by William Barton. An expedition from a moon base discovers an alien base with technology that allows teleportation and time travel. ISBN 0-446-60167-5.
• Ice (2002) by Shane Johnson. A fictional Apollo 19 mission takes a disastrous turn when the LM ascent engine fails to fire. The astronauts then set out on their own as far as their new heavy lunar rover will take them. Their exploration leads miraculously to an ancient—but still functioning—lunar base.
• People Came From Earth by Stephen Baxter, printed in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection.
• In the novels A Fall of Moondust, Earthlight, Rendezvous with Rama, and 2001: A Space Odyssey,by Arthur C. Clarke, colonies of various sizes and functions exist on the moon—some the size of cities
• The Moonrise and Moonwar books by Ben Bova tell the story of a lunar base built by an American corporation, which eventually rebels against Earth control. The books form part of the "Grand Tour" series.
• Moonfall by Jack McDevitt features a comet heading for a collision with the Moon just as the first base is being opened. ISBN 0-06-105036-9.
• Byrd Land Six by Alastair Reynolds includes a Moon colony centered around mining helium 3.
• In the Hyperion stories by Dan Simmons, the Moon is one of several hundred colonized celestial bodies; however, it is left almost entirely abandoned as 99% of the existing colonized planets are preferable to the moon.
• Life As We Knew It (2006) by Susan Beth Pfeffer, a novel focusing on the effects of an asteroid colliding with the Moon and knocking its orbit closer to Earth.

[edit]Film

• Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) written and directed by Georges Méliès. Released in the US as "A Trip to the Moon". A French silent film loosely based upon the Jules Verne novel From the Earth to the Moon and the First Men in the Moon. Includes a famous scene where the rocket hits the Man of the Moon in the Eye.
• Frau im Mond ("Woman in the Moon", 1929), written and directed by Fritz Lang. Based on the novel Die Frau im Mond (1928) by Lang's then-wife and collaborator Thea von Harbou, translated in English as The Rocket to the Moon (1930). The film was released in the USA as By Rocket to the Moon, and in the UK as Woman in the Moon. A silent movie often considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films, in which the basics of rocket travel were presented to a mass audience for the first time.
• Things to Come (1936) was an early science fiction film and featured a spacecraft sending two people on the first manned flight around the moon launched into space by a space gun in the year 2036.
• Destination Moon (1950) was a groundbreaking science fiction film, based on a story treatment by Robert A. Heinlein and directed byGeorge Pal.
• Project Moonbase (1953). A failed television pilot converted into a film.
• First Men in the Moon (1964) is a science fiction film loosely based on H. G. Wells' novel The First Men in the Moon.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. Includes a scene at a lunar administrative base in theClavius crater.
• Moon Zero Two (1969). Billed as a 'space western', this Hammer Films production followed shortly after 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the year 2021 the moon is in the process of being colonized, and this new frontier is attracting a diverse group of people.
• Star Trek: First Contact (1996). By the 24th century there were approximately 50 million people living on the moon, and on a clear day, at least two cities and man-made Lake Armstrong were visible from Earth - as such, time-traveler William Riker, sitting in the cockpit of the first warp prototype, marvels at the sight of the "unspoiled" moon in 2063.
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). Dr. Evil attempts to destroy Washington D.C. with a giant laser from his moon base, but Austin Powers is able to stop him.
• The Time Machine (2002). The moon is destroyed by human efforts at colonization in 2037. The film is not specific as to how exactly it occurs, but the use of nuclear weapons for creating underground caverns is cited as a cause. The destruction causes humanity to divide into Morlocks and Eloi.
• Wall-E (2008) depicts human colonization on the moon by the early 22nd century.
• Moon (2009) Film about a solitary lunar employee mining for new energy resources who experiences a personal crisis as the end of his three-year contract nears. It is the feature debut of director Duncan Jones starring Sam Rockwell.
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) The Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in 1969 turned out to be a top secret mission to examine the remains of an ancient Transformer Spacecraft containing deceased alien robots.
• Apollo 18 (2011) follows a fictional Apollo 18 mission and its discovery on the Moon.

[edit]Television

• Several episodes of the long-running British television series Doctor Who feature the Moon:
  • The Moonbase (1967). A four-part serial set in the year 2070, where a moonbase has been established to use a gravity-control device called the “Gravitron” to control the weather on Earth.
  • The Seeds of Death (1969). A base on the Moon is used as a relay station for T-Mat a powerful teleportation technology that has replaced all conventional forms of transport.
  • Silver Nemesis (1988). The Cybermen's Cyber-Fleet is in orbit around the moon when it is destroyed by the Nemesis statue.
  • Frontier in Space (1973). Features a penal colony on the Moon in the year 2540.
  • Smith and Jones (2007). The Judoon take London Hope Hospital to the moon as they have no rights over the Earth to arrest a Plasmavore.
• Moonbase 3 (1973). Another British science fiction television show about a lunar base; aired only six episodes.
• Two Gerry Anderson series featured moonbases:
  • UFO (1970). A moonbase is used as the launch site for interceptor spacecraft sent to destroy invading alien spaceships.
  • Space: 1999 (ITC Entertainment, 1975–1977). Featured "Moonbase Alpha" on a Moon that had been blasted out of its orbit by a nuclear explosion at phenomenal velocity. The opening episode indicates that the base coordinated nuclear waste disposal, spaceflight operations and training, and subsequent episodes suggest mining, surface surveys and exploration, indicating a versatile base for multiple use, overseen by an international organization on Earth, the "International Lunar Commission".
• Star Cops (1987). The titular police force has its base of operations on the Moon.
• Colonization of the Moon is mentioned several times in the Star Trek franchise.
  • Star Trek: Enterprise. The Moon has already been colonized in this series.
  • The Next Generation. The character Dr. Beverly Crusher was born in Copernicus City on the surface of the moon.
  • Deep Space Nine mentions settlements on the Moon called Tycho City, New Berlin, and Lunaport. It is also revealed that Earth's moon is referred to by its Latin name, Luna, probably to distinguish it from the thousands of moons throughout the universe. It is also revealed that living on the moon is seen by many humans as something of a novelty, as Jake Sisko uses the slang termLunar schooner somewhat affectionately when he meets a girl from there.

[edit]Animation

• Sailor Moon. In this Japanese anime series, the Moon was once home to the Silver Millennium (Moon Kingdom in the dub). Eventually conflict destroyed the Kingdom and caused the Moon to take its current form. Usagi Tsukino (Serena in the dub) is a play on words for Moon Rabbit, the translation for "tsuki no usagi" in Japanese.
• In the manga and anime series Naruto, the primary antagonist Madara Uchiha's goal, known as the "Eye of the Moon Plan", involves casting an illusion on the moon, allowing him to gain dominance over everyone in the world. According to the series' mythology, the moon was created when the originator of ninjutsu imprisoned the body of a powerful demon within it.
• Planetes (2003). A Japanese anime TV series set at a time when travel to the Moon has become an everyday occurrence.
• Mobile Suit Gundam. Throughout most of this anime saga, the Moon has been extensively colonised, with underground cities built inside of the larger craters.
• Exosquad. In this American military science fiction series, the Moon is the site of the fiercest battle between Terran and Neosapienforces. The victory achieved by the Terrans on the Moon soon leads to the liberation of Earth.
• Futurama. By the year 3000, a theme park has been constructed on the moon inside a giant dome with an artificial atmosphere, and an artificial gravity.
• Megas XLR. on one episode the Glorft attempt to convert the moon into a Missile. Coop also ends up Blowing half the moon up. (in the credits he's seen putting the moon back together)
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Among the recurring characters are The Mooninites, which hail from the moon.
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. The moon is used by the Anti-Spirals as the "Human Extermination System", and is designed to fall on the Earth once a million humans live on the surface. It is later discovered that the moon is actually one of Lord Genome's battleships.
• Origin: Spirits of the Past. An anime movie set in Japan 300 years in the future. An apocalypse was brought about by extensive genetic engineering on trees, conducted at a research facility on Earth's moon, in order to produce trees capable of growing in harsh, arid conditions. The trees became conscious and spread to Earth in a fiery holocaust, wiping out most of modern civilization and fragmenting the moon.
• The Tick. Supervillain Chairface Chippendale attempts to create the ultimate act of vandalism by writing his name on the moon's surface with a powerful laser. He is only able to write "CHA" before being thwarted by The Tick. Some time later a mission to the moon is mounted with the intent of repairing this damage. The Tick is given a backpack full of explosives and told to wait in the carved-out "C". When the backpack explodes, The Tick is hurled out of the Solar System, but the "C" is repaired, leaving "HA" still visible from Earth.
• In Despicable Me the world’s #1 super villain, Gru, decides to steal the moon in an attempt to prove himself better than his arch-rival (#1 super villain), Vector.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: In this Nickelodeon cartoon series the Moon is a major part of the lore and spirituality of the Water Tribes. According to legend the first waterbenders learned how to bend water by watching the moon push and pull the water and were eventually able to do so themselves.
• In Space Jam, Mr. Swackhammer, the villain of the film gets sent there at the end of the game by the Monstars.
• In Transformers: Armada, The Mini-Con ship Exodus crash-landed on the Moon, scattering its stasis-locked passengers all over Earth. Later, the Decepticons would set up a base inside the derelict ship, from where they would teleport to various locations onEarth to search for the Mini-Cons.

[edit]Computer and video games

• Call of Duty Black Ops - The moon is one of the maps available through the Rezurection map pack.
• Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge - In one of Soviet Campaign missions, the general was assigned to establish his base there in order to destroy Yuri's Lunar Command Center to prevent the Earth from falling under his psychic mind control.
• Darius II - The moon is inhabited by enemy forces and underground bases players must confront on the fourth level.
• Dead Moon - Aliens crash land on the moon and use it as their headquarters for invading Earth.
• Descent – the main character (the Material Defender) has to clean the Solar System of infected PTMC mines, starting from the moon. Consequently, the first three levels of the game take place in an outpost, a sci-lab, and a military base on the moon.
• Destroy All Humans! 2 - The final area of the game takes place on a Russian moon base called "Solaris".
• Donkey Kong Country Returns - After the final boss, Donkey Kong is blasted into space, as he falls, he powers up a punch and punches the moon, causing to fall on the Volcano.
• Duke Nukem 3D - The second episode of the game, Lunar Apocalypse, takes place on a series of space stations that lead to the moon's surface.
• Final Fantasy IV/II (U.S SNES version)- in the last part of the game the characters travel to the moon to confront the final boss.
• Infinite Undiscovery - The main antagonist has enchained the moon in order to gain its power.
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - Link, the protagonist, must prevent the moon from crashing to Earth within 3 days.
• Mass Effect - One of the sidemissions is set on the Moon.
• Metal Black (video game) - After a massive alien invasion on Earth, the moon is overtaken by the aliens so as to involve it in their plot and its darkside sets the scene for the second level boss fight.
• Military Madness – moon colonization wars exist between the Union and Xenon.
• Moonbase – add-on for SimCity Classic to build a lunar colony rather than an earthbound city.
• Moonbase Commander
• Moon Patrol (Irem)
• Moon Tycoon - A colony building game, Claims to be the first 3-D Sim game ever.
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Mario must journey to the moon to recover a Crystal Star.
• Portal 2 - Chell, having learned that moon rocks are very good portal conductors, fires a portal at the moon to save herself from death.
• Star Control 2 – features a now uninhabited moon base.
• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time – features a moonbase.
• Sonic Adventure 2 - Dr. Robotnik destroyed half the moon with the eclipse cannon.
• Strikers 1945 - In the original Japanese release of the game, players are rocketed towards the enemy's real headquarters situated on the moon's surface for the last two levels.
• Terra Diver - In the future, the moon is one of many points of galactic resources utilised by companies on Earth and hosts a company owned outpost stationed on a nearby asteroid where the fourth boss awaits.
• To The Moon - the story is about two doctors trying to fullfill their patient's last wish, which is to fly to the moon.
• Touhou Project - In Imperishable Night, the two characters selected by the player must defeat Eirin Yagokoro and Kaguya Houraisan, two immortals from the moon, who have replaced the real moon with a fake one.

[edit]Comics

• In the DC Universe, the Moon is the location of the Justice League Watchtower until its destruction by Alexander Luthor and also a former home of Eclipso.
• In an early Ibis the Invincible story the Moon has members of a humanoid race composed of stone that competed with humanity over the Earth and were exiled to the Moon thousands of years ago where they are frozen. A Professor makes a rocket ship to go to the Moon with Taia, and Ibis follows them. Two of the creatures are take on the ship, and revive on a journey back to Earth, but are killed when the spaceship crashes.
• In the Marvel Universe, the Moon contains the Blue Area, the home of the Inhumans. It was built by the Skrull race, in events which led to their Inter-galactic war with the Kree race. The powerful Watcher, Uatu, watches the Solar System from a base on the Moon. In FF #13 the Fantastic Four make the first landing on the Moon (this was published before 1969), and battle the communist villain the Red Ghost and his Super-apes.
• In Judge Dredd the moon is the site of a small colony named Luna City One.
• In Hergé's Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon, Tintin and his companions make the first voyage to the moon and Tintin becomes the first Explorer on the Moon.

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Goodnight Moon Lap Edition

Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd

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