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Lunarpunk

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Lunarpunk is a subgenre of solarpunk with a darker aesthetic. It portrays the nightlife, spirituality, and more introspective side of solarpunk utopias. It can be defined as "Witchy Solarpunk." Aesthetically, lunarpunk usually is presented with pinks, purples, blues, black, and silver with an almost omnipresence of bioluminescent plants and especially mushrooms

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On April 8, 2024, millions of Americans will be able to see a rare celestial occurrence: a total solar eclipse.

It’s going to be awesome. If you’re in the center of the moon’s shadow, known as the totality, the sky will go dark for a few minutes in the middle of the day. The temperature will drop, stars will appear, and birds will become confused and start chirping their nighttime songs.

And it’s all because of a cosmic coincidence: From the Earth, the moon and the sun appear to be roughly the same size.

This will be the last total solar eclipse over the contiguous United States for 21 years. Don’t miss it!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Originally designed for increased accessibility for the low vision community, if you are unable to see the eclipse or have ever wondered what an eclipse sounds like:

The LightSound Project, an initiative started by a team of astronomers and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in 2017, designed a handheld sonification device that senses the light changes that occur during an eclipse. As the moon passes over the sun, the device sonifies the shifts in light into flute, clarinet, and bassoon tones, as well as percussive clicks.