Supermoon: Nothing more than an exceptional celestial treat

The Internet, in more ways than one, has been a major culprit in engaging netizens to spread hypes and hooplas around the supermoon event that occurs on March 19. The previous supermoon occurred 18 years before, in 1983, but that time it was a non-issue or a lesser-known propaganda because Internet was not so prevalent then to vent the rumors, as it's doing today. Well, let's look at the merits of the reasoning behind the supermoon. According to astronomy, this supermoon is much like a normal celestial event that occurs once a month, and this time it's another little aberration. In a sense that the perigee this time is little closer to the earth, which would enable us to view this full moon 30% brighter and 14% larger. So, it could have been an awe-inspiring moment for the observers who took time to gaze supermoon as it moved across the celestial trajectory.

Certainly, to witness this celestial event, many people used their old telescopes and enjoyed this enthralling scene in a much better way. As the shoddy predictions of Richard Nolle go, nothing has happened as per his astrological miscalculations. But one thing that swept away the collective human intelligence was the Nolle's false propaganda around this supermoon through Internet. Many newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media organizations even couldn't suppress their temptation for this piece of rumor spun off by Internet, and of course, the source was Nolle's website. Mr Nolle became an overnight hot potato over the Internet communities those who consumed the concoction with great savor, without even bothering to trust this hoax.

Now that the event has already expired and the world is still unaffected by the dire consequences claimed by Nolle, it's a great learning for the netizens that Internet though has been a great driver in the online business, the medium as used by many unscrupulous people to spread vested propaganda still needs some amount of caution to trust a piece of news like this one. So the key is use your intelligence to keep away from these spams.