You obviously haven’t been reading my posts, then!
There are a couple things…
You obviously haven’t been reading my posts, then!
There are a couple things…
I’d totally be in Salem at a relative’s place, but I’ll be in Paris. So sad.
Not to worry. Those who disagree will surely not take umbrage over your opinions.
I won’t be able to view this one (at least not as a total eclipse), but I just discovered that my house and my place of employment lie in the path of totality of a solar eclipse that will occur in 2024. So, assuming I don’t move before then, I’m all set!
Aaand it has begun.
I’m with you on this, OP. Why don’t they have a poster child for this? Is there a single person in the history of the world who has been blinded by looking a solar eclipse? Serious question.
On our news tonight, the hysteria was brought to new levels when a so called expert recommended that “your furry friends” should also wear protective glasses if they are with you watching the solar eclipse :rolleyes:
I was planning for a year and a half to drive down to Silverton to see it, but I just cancelled my hotel reservation. I had no idea everyone was going to go so bonkers about it and I don’t want to spend a weekend playing survivalist in what’s essentially going to be Woodstock without the music.
I’ll just step out on my porch on Monday morning and look at the partial. (And maybe start planning to head east for the 2024 total eclipse.)
He wasn’t blinded, but I just saw a story about a guy whose eyesight was permanently damaged during an eclipse like 50 years ago.
Have you got, like, Brain Damage or something?
Then we can’t be friends any more.:mad:
More seriously, I’ve been to Horseshoe Bend and the Arches. Haven’t been to Antelope Canyon or Yellowstone yet (they are on my bucket list) but I’ve seen most of the natural scenic wonders in California and Arizona and I liked them a lot. Grand Canyon, though, I try to get back to every two years or so, just to reset my inner soul. It is different every time we go – last time there was an inversion that had filled the canyon with flat clouds almost to the Kaibab formation, making it look like a broad, white river. There were signs warning of the “impaired view” at the entrance station before people shelled out their $25.
Even if you visit once, when you take your time rather than trot up to the rim, go “Huh,” and trot off, the view changes as the sun moves. The claim is every fifteen minutes it’s different but that’s an exaggeration; a half hour is more like it, an hour definitely. Once when we visited it was during the GCA’s annual art celebration where they encourage artists to paint the scenery en plein air, we came upon a watercolor artist frantically trying to capture the view across the canyon. “Gonna make it?” we asked. “I’ll get the broad strokes today,” he said, “and put in the details tomorrow.”
Don’t even get me started on when I took the mule down to Phantom Ranch and made sure to reach out a touch the Vishnu Schist wall as we passed, thinking, These rocks are 1.7 billion years old.
On last night’s news, the big story was eclipse survival kits so they don’t find your rotting corpse stuck in traffic. :rolleyes: I’ve taken to muting any eclipse-related story, so the TV is silent for about half of each news program.
Make a pinhole viewer. It projects an image onto a backdrop, acting like a projector. That way you can view it indirectly and safely. I made mine already. It cost nothing… just a cardboard box and a piece of soda can for the pinhole.
A “camera obscura” on the cheap.
groan
throwing shade already.
This is me. Assuming I’m still alive and haven’t moved, I’ll be in the path of totality for 2024. To be in totality for this one in 2017 I’d have to take at least couple of days off from work and drive for like 14 hours there and then 14 back. Nope! Not gonna happen. I’m kind of sick of hearing about this one. Maybe that is just sour grapes from not being able to see totality, but I’ve also been scared to death of accidentally looking directly at an eclipse ever since I was 8 or 9 years old and heard that it could permanently blind you.
Probably the one in 2024 will get no fanfare because it will be less centrally located.
Want to hear something funny? I was being careful to keep track of the date of this eclipse because I didn’t know if it would get much media notice.
They are saying here in Michigan we will have a double eclipse. The moon will block the sun, and the clouds will block them both.
Yeah, it’s been solidly overcast here (Santa Barbara environs) all day, I expect tomorrow to be more of the same, so no eclipse-viewing tomfooolery to endure. Or take part in.
But 2024’s is going to last almost twice as long (up to five minutes) and pass through much more populous areas: Austin, Dallas, Little RockIndianapolis, Dayton, Akron, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Montreal are all under the totality zone.
Hmm, close to me but not quite close enough.
To Do: Get back to work on supervillain planet/moon orbit changer.
2024’s totality is very, very close to me. As in, if I have to move at all, it’ll just be a few miles south.