The news media are going to ruin the eclipse for millions of people

[Fenris]

@SteveG1

Fenris, huh. Aren’t you the one that tried to eat the sun last time?

You eat ONE sun…

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@panache45

…or they’d gotten the impression the actinic rays of an eclipsed sun would strike you down even if you didn’t look at it.

I was on the island of Guadeloupe in 1998, and all the kids were warned to stay indoors with blinds and curtains drawn, for the entire day.

Another old superstition I’ve heard about was – in the quaint phraseology of an earlier time – was that you shouldn’t “take a haircut” during an eclipse.

[SteveG1]

@Fenris

You eat ONE sun…

rofl nice

[SlackerInc]

@Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus

Another old superstition I’ve heard about was – in the quaint phraseology of an earlier time – was that you shouldn’t “take a haircut” during an eclipse.

Really? That’s so random.

[I_Love_Me_Vol.I]

@beowulff

You didn’t tell this to Ray Bradbury, did you?

Bradbury’s All Summer in a Day strikes me as the same idea as Nightfall by Isaac Asimov but a “mirror image” of it.

[SlackerInc]

True! Never noticed that.