i was going to make a post on the eclipse thread to put a bow on it a couple of days after it happened and the drive-by traffic had settled down....
did you feel the moonburn on your face for a few minutes after the eclipse? in the same way gravitational lensing effects the interstellar transmission of light, so does the moon "pull" the sun's energy around it and "target" that energy in to the path of totality, which results in the spontaneous "evaporation and reformation" of thin cloud cover in the moments just before and after totality....
this "feature" of an earth/moon lunar eclipse is spiritual and divine.... yes UV is part of the entire spectrum so the lensing makes sense, but it's still a unique feeling, unexpected.
the drake equation and fermi paradox probabilities fall away long before we approach the infinitesimal chance that a planet with a single moon has a satellite that is exactly 400 times smaller than it's distance to it's star which is 400 times as far away as the diameter of the satellite
maybe a similar planetary system is out there somewhere
maybe we will find it
but until then, the fact that we happen to be here on this planet with these parameters of our satellite, makes infinity look finite, and if the limit does not exist, then what's past that is holy