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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation, you are.

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Speaker 2: The saying once in a blue moon, Well, that once

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Speaker 2: is upon us, and that blue moon is in fact

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Speaker 2: a super blue moon.

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Speaker 3: What exactly is it? Should we care? Brendan Jones doesn't?

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Speaker 3: How rare is it? Why is it interesting to happen

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Speaker 3: a lot? Well it's not. It's rare.

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Speaker 2: To tell us more and to answer all of our questions,

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Speaker 2: is our favorite astrophysicist, scientist, artificial intelligence expert.

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Speaker 3: Best selling author Dr Matt agu Hello, Matt.

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Speaker 1: Good morning. Hey do former bachelor as well, you should

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Speaker 1: point out, should put many many strings to his large bow.

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Speaker 2: So, Matt, I've been trying to convince jonesy that this

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Speaker 2: is is interesting because of its rarity.

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Speaker 3: So over to you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so no, it's it is very cool, it's very rare.

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Speaker 1: So the blue moon. I feel feel like a party

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Speaker 1: prooper whenever this comes up, because it's not actually blue

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Speaker 1: like a blood moon is red. So the blue moon,

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Speaker 1: as you pointed out, Amanda, it has to do with

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Speaker 1: the frequency with which it occurs. Happens every roughly two

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Speaker 1: and a half years, and it's the second blue of

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Speaker 1: a second full moon in a given calendar month. So unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: not blue, but still.

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Speaker 3: Very rare, even by your own admission, Man, every two

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Speaker 3: and a half year.

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Speaker 2: But this is this, that's a blue moon. This is

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Speaker 2: a super blue moon. It's different again, Matt, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, So then you've got a supermoon, which is

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Speaker 1: basically because the orbit of the Moon around the Earth

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Speaker 1: is not perfectly circular, it means there's times when the

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Speaker 1: Moon is close to the Earth and further away, and

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Speaker 1: a supermoon is when it's closer, and so in the

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Speaker 1: sky it looks up to fourteen percent bigger and thirty

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Speaker 1: percent brighter. So you've got here combining both of those,

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Speaker 1: a super blue moon. It's the second full moon and

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Speaker 1: a calendar month, and it looks bigger in the sky.

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Speaker 3: I thought, so. I saw it this morning on the

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Speaker 3: way to work. It is massive on that does that?

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Speaker 3: What does that mean?

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Speaker 1: We're going to have bigger tides? How's it going to

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Speaker 1: affect us? It won't affect us in any kind of

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Speaker 1: measurable way. It does technically mean that it's to have

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Speaker 1: a slightly stronger gravitational pull on the Earth and the ocean,

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Speaker 1: so it would affect tide to a degree, but certainly

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Speaker 1: nothing measurable. Now, there has been times when the moon

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Speaker 1: has appeared blue, and that happens when, for example, Krakatole

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Speaker 1: and it exploded, when you have these big volcanic eruptions

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Speaker 1: and it ejects all this ash into the sky. That

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Speaker 1: ash can actually scatter the light in such a way

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Speaker 1: that it blocks out certain red colors, and the moon

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Speaker 1: does actually visually look blue as well. But that's not

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Speaker 1: what's happening here.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we have commented on the fact that our callers

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Speaker 2: on the days of the full moon are a little

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Speaker 2: bit more nutty, shall we say, a bit more extreme.

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Speaker 2: Is there evidence that people's behavior is different around that

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Speaker 2: kind of event.

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Speaker 1: There's no evidence. But funnily enough, that's where the term

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Speaker 1: lunatic comes from. That lunar has to do with the moon.

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Speaker 1: So it's something that's very very steeped in historical context,

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Speaker 1: something that's been around for a long time, this idea

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Speaker 1: that full moons have this change or this influence over

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Speaker 1: our behaviors. But no, there's Unfortunately, again I have to

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Speaker 1: be the party preparator.

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Speaker 2: But wouldn't it make sense because we've got a lot

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Speaker 2: of water in our bodies and this is the tides

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Speaker 2: and all of that sort of stuff were influenced by moons.

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Speaker 1: Yes, certainly it does have an impact in that way.

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Speaker 1: But you've got to remember, our bodies and our physiology

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Speaker 1: has evolved over millions, if not billions of years, and

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Speaker 1: so these kind of very small, subtle changes, these have

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Speaker 1: existed for that same period of time, and so our

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Speaker 1: bodies are perfectly attuned with the environment with which we've

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Speaker 1: evolved in.

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Speaker 3: So what Matt's saying is, you don't need to drag

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Speaker 3: out the stone altar. You don't need to sacrifice anyone.

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Speaker 3: We couldn't find a single virgin. Everyone relax.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's it, no sacrifices. I mean, I'm sure there's

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Speaker 1: opportunities to kind of rubbish away if you do something

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Speaker 1: unsavor all behavior. You can say it's the full moon,

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Speaker 1: but there's no sign to get Maybe.

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Speaker 3: There was a refullmoon on Sunday Night List.

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Speaker 2: Jones, you went on the rant, Matt, if we want

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Speaker 2: to see this moon, is it all over?

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Speaker 3: When can we actually see it? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So tonight is the official super blue moon, but because

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Speaker 1: of the position, the moon doesn't move super quickly, so

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Speaker 1: tomorrow it will still be rather large in the sky.

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Speaker 1: It's just not technically a full moon, so it's not

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Speaker 1: a blue moon. But like these events, there's this sort

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Speaker 1: of interesting play when it does pop up over the

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Speaker 1: rise and it does look slightly bigger in the sky.

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Speaker 1: It's this sort of illusion moon illusion. So certainly you

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Speaker 1: can see it during moon rise it's going to look

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Speaker 1: even more impressive, but it will be slightly brighter and

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Speaker 1: slightly larger in the sky for the full moon.

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Speaker 3: Tonight, impressive and brighter, just like you, Matt, stop it stop.

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Speaker 3: We hang around for days at a time. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Always a treat to have you on the show. You

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Speaker 3: can buy Doctor Matt's Guide to Life in Space from

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Speaker 3: all good bookstores. Dr mat Agnew, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely pleasure. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Matt,