In West Japan it's rainy or cloudy today. 

gonna be honest: it looked like a normal moon to me

It was gorgeous--  to me it is simply a bright harvest moon, but Supermoon will do.  

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/

Edited by Atkingani - October 13 2016 at 07:36

^ as of mid July tourism in Paris was down 11% on last year but elsewhere in France it was up by 1%. Reuters quoted someone predicting 30% drop following Nice but that would be an unprecedented drop following a terror attack if that prediction prove true.

Going off the current topic, I saw on one of the (liberal) American news channels that tourism is down a "great deal" in France after the terror episodes. How much of a role does tourism play in the French economy? I assume it's quite substantial.  

Possible habitable planet, right next door (in cosmic terms).  Dean, feel free to debunk the author if necessary

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/astronomers-have-found-a-habitable-planet-orbiting-our-suns-nearest-neighbor/497117/

Vompatti wrote: Who doesn't already have at least 10 days of food at their home at all times? You'd have to go outside at least once every ten days if you don't. Also, from what I've read on the Internet, Germany is already under invasion.

I don't think I could fit ten days worth of non perishable food in my kitchen! I usually have about a weeks worth.

In any case this policy is slightly strange and worrying. It appears to be advising people to prep for wide scale energy outages and serious disruption to services. That goes beyond the scope of most probable terrorist attacks, so this suggests an attack by another nation state or maybe...do Germany get their gas from Russia via Ukraine??

Perhaps there is an escalation in that conflict expected in the coming weeks and months that could cut off that supply for some time.

Blacksword wrote: Germans told to stockpile supplies in case of 'national emergency' Germans told to stockpile food and water Scaremongering, or are they expecting something specific, I wonder? Seems quite extreme advice to me.

That's about the strangest thing I've seen in ages

I watched the videos of both shootings, I refrain from saying anything more than it made me sick with disgust and rage.