Eclipse Poll
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My husband and I plan to drive from our home in Tulsa to St. Joseph, Missouri to see the moon eating the sun. I just got out of the hospital, so I may be a bit feeble, but I've been looking forward to seeing a total eclipse for a very long time, and I am not gonna miss this chance,
If you should see on the news that an old gal with a smile on her face has dropped dead in St. Joseph after the eclipse, that will probably be me.
If you should see on the news that an old gal with a smile on her face has dropped dead in St. Joseph after the eclipse, that will probably be me.
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I've seen a 75% eclipse, and I agree that it was interesting and strange to see just a crescent sun. But if you were indoors, it wouldn't look that much different from a day that's getting progressively foggier. Totality, however, is apparently so much more.
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Now THAT'S planning ahead!Anachronism wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:28 pm What clinches it is that we are planning on moving as soon as we can sell this damned house and the area we're moving to is in the totality path for 2024.
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For the record, this web page gives some good information for places around the world, with an animated diagram:opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 2:49 pmYeah, this is a US-only eclipse. If you want one up in Winnipeg, get your own.
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/
Winnipeg will max at 76% magnitude (71% obscuration) at 12:57 pm MDT.
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No need, I downloaded a VPN program so I can watch the eclipse as if I was in the US.opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 2:49 pmYeah, this is a US-only eclipse. If you want one up in Winnipeg, get your own.
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Build that wall!opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 2:49 pmYeah, this is a US-only eclipse. If you want one up in Winnipeg, get your own.
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We're gonna build a firewall and make Canada pay for it!BobF wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 4:15 pmBuild that wall!opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 2:49 pmYeah, this is a US-only eclipse. If you want one up in Winnipeg, get your own.
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As I understand it, the darkness is not the compelling part, it's the opportunity to see the corona, which you don't get with a partial eclipse.
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As I wrote after seeing a 99% and then, in 1979 a total eclipse, "A 99% eclipse is like closing your door 99% of the way when the maniac is coming up your path with an axe."
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But I get to experience this once every 24 hours, what's the big deal if it happens twice in 24 hours once in a while?mikebdoss wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:52 pmShocked as well - people don't understand that a 80% partial eclipse just looks like a cloudy day, while totality is day turning into night.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:18 pm I'm absolutely astonished that some people don't care about this. In the general populous sure, but I wouldn't have expected that here. There hasn't been a total solar eclipse over the U.S. mainland since 1979!
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Not sure whether the question is facetious or just half-facetious, but if you want a serious answer, here are some excerpts from Annie Dillard's essay “Total Eclipse”:Vintsanity wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:23 amBut I get to experience this once every 24 hours, what's the big deal if it happens twice in 24 hours once in a while?
Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him, or as flying in an airplane does to falling out of an airplane.
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I saw, early in the morning, the sun diminish against a backdrop of sky. I saw a circular piece of that sky appear, suddenly detached, blackened, and backlighted; from nowhere it came and overlapped the sun. It did not look like the moon. It was enormous and black. ... It did not look like a dragon, although it looked more like a dragon than the moon.
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Seeing this black body was like seeing a mushroom cloud. The heart screeched. The meaning of the sight overwhelmed its fascination. It obliterated meaning itself.
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You have seen photographs of the sun taken during a total eclipse. The corona fills the print. All of those photographs were taken through telescopes. The lenses of telescopes and cameras can no more cover the breadth and scale of the visual array than language can cover the breadth and simultaneity of internal experience.
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I'll go with the latter.Mathew5000 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 4:26 amNot sure whether the question is facetious or just half-facetiousVintsanity wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:23 amBut I get to experience this once every 24 hours, what's the big deal if it happens twice in 24 hours once in a while?
I live within the path of totality, and I fully expect the human spectacle around here to eclipse (hah) anything the sun and moon will do that day. For some reason I just don't understand the near religious significance that a lot of people ascribe to 2:36 of darkness. I mean, I get to experience an average of 12 hours of darkness every night.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to sit inside and shut the blinds. I think it will be an interesting event, but if I couldn't see it from my backyard I don't think I'd go that far out of my way to see it. I'll report back if I'm wrong and I indeed have a profound experience.
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And how often do you get to see the moon completely block out the sun? That's sort of the point, not the darkness.Vintsanity wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 9:43 am
I live within the path of totality, and I fully expect the human spectacle around here to eclipse (hah) anything the sun and moon will do that day. For some reason I just don't understand the near religious significance that a lot of people ascribe to 2:36 of darkness. I mean, I get to experience an average of 12 hours of darkness every night.
A good sunrise or sunset is still spectacular to me, but an astronomical event that was last seen in the U.S. in 1979 is transcendent.
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I think that a lot of us have seen enough full eclipse pictures and videos online that seeing one in real life isn't that big of a deal. I don't understand why Google Earth didn't kill the travel industry entirely.
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People travel to events of all kinds, experiences, friends and relatives, too. Besides, pictures aren't the same experience as seeing a place or thing in-person.Cat Hammarskjold wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 6:03 pm I think that a lot of us have seen enough full eclipse pictures and videos online that seeing one in real life isn't that big of a deal. I don't understand why Google Earth didn't kill the travel industry entirely.
That being said, it's very unlikely I'll bother to look at the eclipse.
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My house is in 99.8% totality near Kansas City so I'll probably be driving the 10 miles north for 100%! Everyone around here is acting like the world is going to end or there's going to be a blizzard to end all blizzards...fill your gas tank, get groceries, pack water in your car, have alternate methods of communication for clogged cell towers, etc etc etc.
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I'm speechless.Cat Hammarskjold wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 6:03 pm I think that a lot of us have seen enough full eclipse pictures and videos online that seeing one in real life isn't that big of a deal. I don't understand why Google Earth didn't kill the travel industry entirely.
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This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 12:47 amI'm speechless.Cat Hammarskjold wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 6:03 pm I think that a lot of us have seen enough full eclipse pictures and videos online that seeing one in real life isn't that big of a deal. I don't understand why Google Earth didn't kill the travel industry entirely.