Moon being eaten with "blood"

Last night, when watching the full lunar eclipse with some friends, I wondered why the moon was not entirely dark, but reddish. A friend suggested the reddish looking moon was not under a full eclipse when compared to the partial eclipse, we had been watching an hour earlier, in which part of the moon was completely dark. but I was almost certain that it had to do with contrast; i.e. in partial eclipse, our vision is insensitive to the very faint red light which is just by the other shinny dazzling half of the moon.

I followed my curiosity on MSN with a friend who always shares the same passion in science with me. He correctly pointed out to the curvature path of the red light traveling in the earth's shadow to reach moon and color it with red to us. I read up more on the matter on Wikipedia and thought it could be interesting to post it here:

"....The Moon does not completely disappear as it passes through the umbra because of the refraction of sunlight by the Earth's atmosphere into the shadow cone; if the Earth had no atmosphere, the Moon would be completely dark during an eclipse. The red coloring arises because sunlight reaching the Moon must pass through a long and dense layer of the Earth's atmosphere, where it is scattered. Shorter wavelengths are more likely to be scattered by the small particles, and so by the time the light has passed through the atmosphere, the longer wavelengths dominate. This resulting light we perceive as red. This is the same effect that causes sunsets and sunrises to turn the sky a reddish colour; an alternative way of considering the problem is to realise that, as viewed from the Moon, the Sun would appear to be setting (or rising) behind the Earth.

The amount of refracted light depends on the amount of dust or clouds in the atmosphere; this also controls how much light is scattered. In general, the dustier the atmosphere, the more that other wavelengths of light will be removed (compared to red light), leaving the resulting light a deeper red colour. This causes the resulting coppery-red hue of the Moon to vary from one eclipse to the next...."

Will our today's puzzles on the origin of Big Bang/mystery of mind/brain and the baffling way how biological living cells work be solved as simply someday? The only tool needed seems to be true information which is progressively being built up by all the single individuals existing today. Don't you feel any analogy conceivable when you read about Eclipses through the Ages? By the time we have uncovered today's mysteries, what would be our new puzzles we will have to solve?

NB: The shot is taken by Keith Mo, a friend of mine, using a Canon a570. I didn't realize that I could capture the moon by increasing the exposure time of my Kodak.