Chart of the day: Lunar eclipse vs. solar eclipse vs. apocalypse

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• Is this original work? I saw a similar piece on Twitter done by @astrokatie Different glyphs to be sure but the same concept and idea.

• if the moon is thatttt far from earth, then, moon will be not be in earth's control anymore.. and, moon can never become the natural satellite anymore..

• So f*cking what Scott! It's a joke, I'm sure either Astrokatie either didn't make it up or it's the only original idea she's ever had, hence being so overprotective over the concept!

• In a world where originality is rare and the Internet tosses content creators' names aside in favor of virulence and meme-ability, I think that when credit can be given, it should be. It takes a small effort and allows everyone to appreciate that an actual human being was responsible for an idea. It costs you nothing.

  Yes, this was a re-imaged version of Katie's tweet which either failed to credit her for the idea in the first place or the credit was omitted in subsequent shares.
  https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/518697246305439745

• Hi! I can confirm that I am the original creator of this joke. I did in fact make it up, and it's not the only original idea I've ever had, but it might be the best! I tweeted it in October 2014. Here is the link: https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/518697246305439745

• You clearly stole this from Astrokatie. She did it way back in October and much better.

• AstroKatie, aka Dr Katherine J Mack, is a cosmologist with 15 original publications, well cited in the professional literature. In academia, as in many other areas, attribution of sources is a matter of professional practice.

• Well technically Katie was the original PUBLISHER of the joke. ( Not to take that away from her- I too thought of MTV, making proposals, setting up storyboards, even discussing it with my 5th grade teacher back in the '70s. Just never got around to executing...)

• Kudos to Katie for the idea, but the second visual is better. It adds some scale and color.

• "Well cited in the professional literature" - she has an h-index of 9 (google scholar) which puts her on a par with most postdocs. Katie wasn't even the inventer of the joke originally, Terry Johnson (https://twitter.com/txjohns) came up with the idea years before. It is a fun joke, but insisting on attribution any time it crops up on the internet is rediculous.