Tuesday, April 15th marks the first of four lunar “blood moon” eclipses over the next two years.The tetrad — or four consecutive and complete lunar eclipses occurring at approximately six month intervals — will all be visible over the United States during 2014 -2015. The other dates are Oct. 8, 2014, April 4, 2015 and Sept. 28, 2015. But some of the more apocalyptic minded folks are hyping it as doom to humanity. Ha! Gee, haven’t we heard all this before? And we’re all still here.

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