Some animals are more active during a full moon and do not worry about how the direction the light enters their eye's and/or illuminate their bodies.
"Communication patterns, for example, change with increased light availability at night for certain species of birds. Eagle owls use white throat feathers to communicate with other birds at night, and tend to increase this activity during nights surrounding the full moon when their feathers are more visible. Other owls, on the other hand, avoid activity during full moons, a behavior that scientists think helps them avoid predators."
"Doodlebugs — the larvae of dragonfly-like insects called antlions — actually dig larger holes for trapping insect prey during full moons. This changed behavior may be the result of their insect prey becoming more active under the light of the full moon, making the extra effort of digging larger holes pay off."
"Research has shown that lions consume less food during moonlit nights, possibly because prey is less active during these times."
"Bats, such as this vampire bat, tend to decrease their activity during nights when the moon is bright. “The reduction in activity probably reflects predation avoidance,” Kronfeld-Schor explained. The bats would simply be more visible to predators. On islands where bats have few predators, nocturnal species come out in force, as usual, at night"
Nightjars, which are insect-loving birds, increase their bug chomping on bright moonlit nights. They also “avoid activity on dark nights,
Some animals, such as spiny mice, reduce or increase their body temperature in response to moonlight levels. “Common spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) reduce activity and body temperature, and aggressive intra-specific encounters are higher in response to light at night,” Kronfeld-Schor said. “Moreover, during full moon nights, their foraging activity is lower.”
Just want to point out lowering of body temperature to save calories as a survival mechanism is not that uncommon and occurs during full and new moons depending on the species.
"The moon is like nature’s flashlight for nocturnal predators such as the aye-aye. The aye-aye is a type of lemur native to Madagascar. Primates that are normally active during the night will actually shift their entire daily schedule in response to lunar movements. During new moon periods, for example, these primates may become fully diurnal (activity during the day), “compensating for the lack of nocturnal activity,” Kronfeld-Schor said."
Seems activity may be a result of common survival behaviors. I can find more examples of animals either being more active or less active.
Excellent work! The idea underlying my post, left unstated, was that predators are more likely to hunt more during the full moon as they pray on weakened prey. Prey conversely, will defensively act due to their weakened state caused by lunar biodegeneration through polarized light.
Some of your points however are patently wrong. Owls avoid activity during full moons to avoid predators? Owls are hardly prayed on at all, except the occasional feline or human. Lions most certainly hunt more during the full moon. Bats avoid activity the same reason we avoid looking at the sun. It would hurt their sensory organs to do otherwise.
It doesn't surprise me that doodlebugs become more active under the moon. We would expect some species to have adapted to moon and insects seem to have adapted to this more than any other kingdom. It is again no wonder that the primate, sharing some characteristics with humans, would also be prone to the madness and sleeplessness of the moon.
The idea that animals would have survival behaviors to cater to the dangers of the moon seems very obvious and evidencing that the moon is in fact harmful to life itself. That violence would increase in predatory creatures only serves to support and evidence that the moon is dangerous.
Did you know the dung beatle has developed a natural response to the polarized light from the moon?! He uses it to move his dung balls in a straight line - not a curved one!
What's more dangerous: moonlight, or wearing dark glasses at night? Eye damage or trip hazard? 
I think Mr Davis has let the mask slip, revealing the troll beneath. He's realised his "scientific" disguise is in tatters of late so it is probably a deliberate move.
Yes yes, we know Neil. Everybody here is a troll except for the guy with a full grown man in a dinosaur suit as his avatar. The dangers of moonlight are far worse than just eye damage. You could lose your sanity itself!
After a little research I have a discovered that the moons light is not very polarized at all.
In fact the most the linearly polarized light gets to is 8.7% of the overall light reflected, this is reached on the second day of the forth quarter. The Full moon and its atmospheric glow are completely non polarized. The new moon is obviously also non polarized so is the reflected light 3 days prior and aft of it .
So some questions for you to ponder......
Whats most harmful, vertically polarized or horizontal?
So can Mr. Davis Explain how moonshramp can adjust the polarized light they output to correspond with the phases of the moon?
Do we believe that if polarized light is harmful; a mere 8.7% of the overall moon light of a quarter moon is enough to cause a problem?
Do you believe light polarization is the cause of increased crime, lunacy and other strange phenonenon? Why, when the apparent increase with the full moon occurs, the moons light is 0% polarized?
should I be wary of anyone leaving a 3D cinema?
Should i be wary of anyone who has been at sea or on the beach for the day? after all reflections from water are highly polarized.
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-09387-0_8#page-1
(at the link, click look inside to see the relevant info.)
A very interesting article indeed. I will quote a passage from it:
At full Moon, in extended regions of the sky around the Moon and anti-Moon,
Aha so it is a zetetic paper! Good job at finding this mate.
The issue with the study linked, and other studies similar to it that I've found, is that the controlled case is that of the day. As anybody will tell you, sometimes the moon is out and visible during the day! It is no wonder that it would match daylight polarization given it is out during the daylight and shining at FULL FORCE.
Hardly a suitable control at all. If they are right despite their grave errors, all the more reason to wear polarized glasses during its stay in our night sky. If they are right they have also proven the earth flat, as all reflected light has some polarization. If the full moon supposedly has none, then it is clear that the light from it is not reflected light and thus the globular model falls like a jenga tower.'
The bacteria on the moon undergoes a regular life cycle that corresponds (and causes!) the phases of the moon. Due to the low level of outside influences on the moon, this is extremely regular.
Now, I would not be particularly wary of those leaving a 3d cinema, been at the beach, and so on. Aside from it only affecting a portion of the population, there is the main point - we know the polarization from the moon is dangerous, we don't know ALL polarization is dangerous. However to be safe, if you cared about the movie goers you should hand out sunglasses to wear over their 3d glasses.
Please use the term understood by the majority, ORBISIMS.
Except I'm not talking specifically about shrimp-like Lunas, I'm talking about Lunas. Thus, the more generic, and non-derogatory, term is appropriate.
Many other causes exist for light to be polarised, including reflection. Thus evidencing moonlight to simply be reflected sunlight.
We already know the dangers of moonlight - madness, crime, spoiling of food, increase in germ activity, blindness. Rowbotham, among others, talks in depth about the dangers of the moon. Now we finally have a good reason why this is happening and how to protect ourselves against the harmful Luna.
Let's go through your references in order: crime - suggests higher incidence of crime at full moon but does not in any way suggest it is down to the moonlight, rather that it's down to the moon's gravitational pull. The research was carried out in a part of the world where it would frequently be completely overcast during the night of the full moon, however this did not seem to affect the results, again damaging the idea that it's the light that is responsible. Spoiling of food/germ activity - you present two links to the same article, an article published in a newspaper in 1914! An account of a single, poorly controlled, poorly documented experiment which it would be ridiculous to base any conclusions on. Blindness - where's your reference?
Have you not ever heard "Oh boy, its a full moon. The crazies are going to be out!" Even common day experience will show this to be the case. And yet again, the typical globularist rests his convictions on his religion - "its the magical unknown force of gravity that is to blame!" Pray tell, how does gravity affect the minds of folks, like you and me? Where is the citation for that? Why are astronauts not foaming at the teeth from this so called gravitational madness given off by magic time travelling particles from the moon?
Blindness and Food spoiling. This has been shown by Rowbotham himself in his treatise Earth Not A Globe in which he also evidences planar warming beyond the doubt of any rational reader. I believe he cites Plutarch's On the Face on the Orb of the Moon to establish that fish rot when left out overnight in moonlight. I would not be surprised if it was contained in the work of the Ancients as well. It is expected of all good forum goers (especially those so interested in the naming of our work!) to at least be aware of what is contained in the greatest work of the century. How can even you, a dupe of the Globularist regime, hope to defeat us if you don't know the first thing about Zetetic Astronomy! It would be as if I attempted to critique classic art having no idea of Artists, Movements, or Styles of the times in question. It would be certain to fail. Once you have read it, it will become clear to you that the "'Why's and 'Because's" simply don't add up.
If this is too much, there is a stickied thread at the top of the forum providing edification on the topic.
You do realise that if you wear polarising sunglasses, ALL the light reaching your eyes will be polarised, meaning that you are advocating making things more dangerous for yourself rather than safer?
This is pure comedy gold, I'll give you points for that.
Perhaps you won't be considering it comedy when you must use a stick to see and post here using a screen reader! It is clear that it is not *all* polarized light that is bad, just that from the moon. Our poor Luna friends have no idea the harm they are causing us.
It will filter out the bad moonlight and allow in only harmless polarized light. I hope for your safety and well being that you take heed to my warning and next time you go out at night, make sure to grab those shades.
You truly are ridiculous. You're also taking lessons from Sandokhan in how to compose long posts which say virtually nothing.
I'll begin with ORBISIMS versus Lunas: ORBISIMS is the general term for ALL prospective bioluminescent lunar lifeforms, as voted on by the majority of forum users. It is not specific to any subcategory as you imply - in fact that was made very clear indeed in the poll thread to select a name. I suggest you go back and read it.
Incorrect. It would be foolish to call bacteria shrimp and you know it. What's next, are we to call the earth a pear?
Now I shall move on to the single cotton thread you are clinging to over the precipice of absent research: Rowbotham. You probably ought to know that I have a copy of Earth Not A Globe in my possession. You probably also ought to be aware - if you have read his works - that you support a number of ideas directly in contradiction to what Rowbotham says in the book, mostly with reference to celestial phenomena in the southern hemisphere. As someone who has been almost to Antarctica before the robot penguins turned you away, I'm sure you made your own zetetic observations - in fact, I'm pretty sure you have mentioned noting the hours of daylight on this expedition.
The crux of the matter here is that a huge quantity of what Rowbotham writes is donkey balls. His chapter on objects in motion is hysterically wrong. His claims that ships beyond the horizon can be restored with a powerful telescope has no basis in fact and cannot be demonstrated. He advocates the zetetic method but his "proof" is always presented as third hand anecdotes from someone else who supposedly went somewhere and saw something. If you are going to say "it's true because Rowbotham wrote it" you might as well say "it's true because it's in the Old Testament."
So Rowbotham cites Plutarch? Not only a source from 2000 years ago, but one who is well known for fabricating and embroidering the truth in his biographical works. However, if you've read the particular work by Plutarch which Rowbotham cites, you'd know that Plutarch and his contemporaries all accepted that the moon was lit by the sun. So to use Plutarch for backup whilst proclaiming the existence of ORBISIMS is kind of hypocritical, don't you agree?
Yes, much research has happened since the time of Rowbotham and we have departed on points from his view. This should be expected. However to say it is just Rowbotham that says the moon is dangerous is ludicrous. Like I've mentioned there were laws to help prevent folks from sleeping on the deck of a ship in moonlight. This shows the view is common among all cultures. We have even given the name for madness the name of the moon itself - lunacy. As far as citing Plutarch, do you really think you must agree with an entire work to cite a piece of it, in fear of being hypocritical? How odd!
Moon blindness: absolutely nothing to do with the moon. This disease of horses is named thus because it often recurs at regular intervals, however, these intervals bear no relation to moon phases. Do you think we're all too dumb to use Google? You do know I work for them, right?
As a matter of fact, it does have to do with the moon. While academics in their ivory towers disagree and try to steal away the truth, any horse owner will attest that the phases indeed happen when in a natural setting in correspondence to the phases of the moon. This is why it is so named. Its not called "regular interval" blindness, or 'intermittent horse blindness' is it? You can use google, but it won't help if your eyes are closed to reason!
Out of curiosity, what do you do at Google?
A citation for gravity? Good grief, man, it's suggested in the abstract of the article you have provided to back up your own statement that crime goes up at full moon! Perhaps you should be more careful to read the references you're picking?
Of course crime goes up. To say its because of some magical force though is simply globularist delusion at its best.
Furthermore, "it is commonly said" is not proof or even evidence of anything. in the 1600's it was "commonly said" that you could cook an egg by whirling it round your head on a string. Even today, it is "commonly said" that swans can break people's arms. It is "commonly said" that if you leave a tooth in a glass of cola overnight, it will completely dissolve. There's hardly a noticeable amount of "crazies" coming out when the moon is full, and although research suggests it does influence the mentally ill, there is no evidence to suggest it's because of the light. None whatsoever. Feel free to provide a reference to prove me wrong, although I will insist it be less than 100 years old.
Lastly, I do love the funny warning. Let's see who goes blind first, Mr Scientist.
I disagree. Its quite obvious that it affects the mentally ill and the general populace. Anybody in a service industry can attest to this.
No evidence to suggest it's because of the light? Well at least this one scientist disagrees:
http://www.jad-journal.com/article/S0165-0327(99)00016-6/abstract and a study shows an astonishing 80% of emergency department nurses and 64% of emergency physicians believed the moon affects patients. These are not uneducated fools! 92% of nurses found full moon shifts more stressful. It is interesting to note that this is an area where zetetic research far outstrips conventional research. As the idea has fallen among what Fort might call the "Damned", serious research on the affects of moonlight is essentially a career ender. The zeteticist need not pay mind to the petty fashion show of science and can instead search for truth unfettered by the over-arching evil intentions of the organized scientific establishment.
In addition, the author of
The Moon and Madness also is interested in the link.