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Posted: 4/9/2024 7:11:04 PM EDT
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And everything under the sun is in tune
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Posted: 4/9/2024 8:03:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I agree and I live where it was 100%. It was cool looking but wasn't even the best part of my day, certainly not life changing or anything like that. Being 74F, dry, sunny, little wind was the nicest day of the year so far, that was the best part of yesterday. I've been stuck by lightning, that was a lot more memorable. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yep, I don't get it. To me it's the same as seeing a rainbow, or some other rare sight. Not that big of a deal......sure as hell wouldn't drive hours to see an eclipse for a couple of minutes. I agree and I live where it was 100%. It was cool looking but wasn't even the best part of my day, certainly not life changing or anything like that. Being 74F, dry, sunny, little wind was the nicest day of the year so far, that was the best part of yesterday. I've been stuck by lightning, that was a lot more memorable. I hope the people making these sort of replies aren’t as dull minded, uncurious, unappreciative and jaded as their words make them seem. I would hate for anyone, especially myself, to go through life like that. |
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Posted: 4/9/2024 8:14:29 PM EDT
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The idiots and doomers ruined any hype I had for it
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Posted: 4/9/2024 8:21:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The idiots and doomers ruined any hype I had for it Enjoy life, experience stuff. Don't let the retards online or in the news impact you. |
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Posted: 4/9/2024 8:26:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Idiots and doomers can ruin any and all things, but only if you let them. Enjoy life, experience stuff. Don't let the retards online or in the news impact you. Yeah it's something I need to work on, I had to work also and saw it in 2017 so wasn't too worried 
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Posted: 4/9/2024 8:49:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah it's something I need to work on, I had to work also and saw it in 2017 so wasn't too worried Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Idiots and doomers can ruin any and all things, but only if you let them. Enjoy life, experience stuff. Don't let the retards online or in the news impact you. Yeah it's something I need to work on, I had to work also and saw it in 2017 so wasn't too worried I loved the show in 2017 so much I came right home and found the 2024 one and printed a copy of the data/map and hung it in my office as a reminder. |
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Posted: 4/9/2024 9:08:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Interesting take, and I believe every bit of it. Over hyped, over played, no one cared. “Get two days worth of food and gas”  Please.The missive from the Mayor of Forest (2 pages, BOTH sides each) suggested stocking up a weeks worth of food, gas and medicine by 4/04. 21 numbered bullet points including: Be prepared to stay, play and work from home. Reschedule doctors appointments. Cell towers and internet may overload. Plan for alternate communications with family not at home. "Clear your yard and porch of items that can be easily removed. Feel free to rope off your property and post no trespassing signs"  Have cash on hand. Keep doors and windows locked. Do not open the door for unknown individuals. Do not block sewer pits?? Wtf? This one is my favorite post apocalyptic admonition of all: "If you don't have a supply find someone who does and use theirs" WOLVERINES!!!!!!! Bunch more minor derp. |
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Posted: 4/9/2024 9:12:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The missive from the Mayor of Forest (2 pages, BOTH sides each) suggested stocking up a weeks worth of food, gas and medicine by 4/04. 21 numbered bullet points including: Be prepared to stay, play and work from home. Reschedule doctors appointments. Cell towers and internet may overload. Plan for alternate communications with family not at home. "Clear your yard and porch of items that can be easily removed. Feel free to rope off your property and post no trespassing signs" Have cash on hand. Keep doors and windows locked. Do not open the door for unknown individuals. Do not block sewer pits?? Wtf? This one is my favorite post apocalyptic admonition of all: "If you don't have a supply find someone who does and use theirs" WOLVERINES!!!!!!! Bunch more minor derp. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Interesting take, and I believe every bit of it. Over hyped, over played, no one cared. “Get two days worth of food and gas” Please.The missive from the Mayor of Forest (2 pages, BOTH sides each) suggested stocking up a weeks worth of food, gas and medicine by 4/04. 21 numbered bullet points including: Be prepared to stay, play and work from home. Reschedule doctors appointments. Cell towers and internet may overload. Plan for alternate communications with family not at home. "Clear your yard and porch of items that can be easily removed. Feel free to rope off your property and post no trespassing signs" Have cash on hand. Keep doors and windows locked. Do not open the door for unknown individuals. Do not block sewer pits?? Wtf? This one is my favorite post apocalyptic admonition of all: "If you don't have a supply find someone who does and use theirs" WOLVERINES!!!!!!! Bunch more minor derp. An intelligent person would already be prepared for most of that. Not mocking the advice. |
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Posted: 4/9/2024 9:21:49 PM EDT
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2017 (green) vs 2024 (red)
2024 crossed much more of the population centers (plus Mexico and Canada) and had a wider path with longer totality…  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/9/2024 9:43:16 PM EDT
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I’m 66 and I’ve seen a few of them now. One when I was a kid and made a pin hole camera to watch it and used a darkened stack of photo negatives to watch it.
Seems like there was another one when I was a young adult. And now this one. It was cool, the sunlight takes on a different look during the run up to it. it wasn’t a total eclipse where I’m at in SE Michigan. It had a science fiction ish feel to it this time for me. What’s cool is how science can predict it down to the minute and lat and long of it. My GF went to a couple different stores to source eclipse glasses for us. I had fun during it. Nothing more nothing less it was a fun distraction. |
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Posted: 4/9/2024 9:56:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My family is making plans and saving for it right now. I'm officially hooked lol. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Sydney Australia is directly in the path of one in just 4 years from now. That might be a fun trip, for many different reasons.  My family is making plans and saving for it right now. I'm officially hooked lol. There was a youtube video or maybe a news interview on someone who has seen like 15 total eclipses. He said look for an area of the world in totality you wanted to go see anyway, the eclipse will be the icing on the cake. |
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Posted: 4/9/2024 10:00:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Might be simpler to just strap on some rockets and tow the moon around. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: So if we can build a like a 195 mile wide disk and park it about 20,000 mile altitude, just inside geosynchronous orbit so it moves relative to the ground… we can have man made eclipses. LEO would suck because it would travel so fast you’d have like 0.87 seconds of totality. And you want it to move, some, kind of like the moon super slowly across the sky. Fun fact: geosynchronous orbit is almost 1/10th the distance to the moon. I find that pretty crazy. Might be simpler to just strap on some rockets and tow the moon around. Meh....just let the "empire" build the death star and block the sun with it.......
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Posted: 4/9/2024 10:10:04 PM EDT
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What a surprise !
same damn thing happened on Y2K, Nothing. Except certain cults were transported to salvation, lucky bastards |
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Posted: 4/9/2024 10:53:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: my wife said a friend of hers was out walking with her baby in a stroller when someone driving passed rolled down the window and yelled at her to get home to safety because of the eclipse. we've regressed massively as a society.
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Posted: 4/9/2024 10:59:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/3097/87B5653C-2B72-46AA-A129-B7D4B3620132-3183014.jpg Luxor in 2027 will be a show I can see myself being in Barcelona or Bilbao in 2026. |
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Posted: 4/9/2024 11:21:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I can see myself being in Barcelona or Bilbao in 2026. Competition will be fierce with that one because it goes over such a small area of land, unlike yesterday. And from what I saw if I'm not mistaken the length of totality is considerably shorter, like 1:20. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 7:05:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Competition will be fierce with that one because it goes over such a small area of land, unlike yesterday. And from what I saw if I'm not mistaken the length of totality is considerably shorter, like 1:20. I would likely make it near the end of a bigger trip. Like day 11 of 15 days. Plenty of cool smaller towns in the path aswell. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 7:09:52 AM EDT
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I’d guess that people are desperate for a distraction from the day to day shitshow we’re living these days.
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Posted: 4/11/2024 7:57:45 AM EDT
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I watched it from my property in the Ozarks. Zero issues other than the 3 hour drive to get there.
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Posted: 4/11/2024 10:36:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’d guess that people are desperate for a distraction from the day to day shitshow we’re living these days. Yeah, couldn’t possibly be that it’s a relatively rare and amazing phenomenon to experience. And from a practical perspective, literally a once or maybe twice in a lifetime opportunity for most people. Nah, couldn’t be that. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 4:46:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’d guess that people are desperate for a distraction from the day to day shitshow we’re living these days. It's only a shitshow if you watch the news or have made very poor decisions in your life. 
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Posted: 4/11/2024 6:49:27 PM EDT
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Some of you guys would bitch about a blowjob.
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Posted: 4/11/2024 9:47:33 PM EDT
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I know it's been said, but the difference between 99% and totality is literally night and day. I couldn't get anyone on board to drive 4 hours in 2017 to be in the path of totality...their reasoning? "We're in 95+%, why do we need to drive for a little more?"
I went alone this week. From east Tennessee to a little town in Arkansas with less than 100 people living there. Ended up being over 1,000 miles round trip. I didn't have to fight any crowds or put up with anyone screaming their heads off...I sat in this little towns park for several hours awaiting the moment. And it was one of the most spectacular, jaw dropping things I have ever witnessed.  DSC_0031_inPixio (3) by Phillip Davis, on Flickr" />
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Posted: 4/11/2024 10:37:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’d guess that people are desperate for a distraction from the day to day shitshow we’re living these days. Or, it's one of the most remarkable things a human can ever see on Earth. |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 8:15:13 AM EDT
[#25]
We need an eclipse subforum.
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Posted: 4/12/2024 8:35:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Competition will be fierce with that one because it goes over such a small area of land, unlike yesterday. And from what I saw if I'm not mistaken the length of totality is considerably shorter, like 1:20. Yeah you’ll have all of the EU able and wanting to get there. Also. The 2026 eclipse in Spain will be very low on the horizon (in fact it’ll still be partial at sunset) so you better make sure you have a good view of the western horizon. 2027 hopefully everyone will try to cram into Egypt. It’ll be over 6 minutes over Luxor. It’ll also go over Mecca. And Gibraltar and Morocco. So maybe that’ll leave Spain less crazy packed (and it’ll only be up to 4 minutes since Spain is not in the center By the way, for the curious: you’ll note that 2027 eclipse is related to the one that’ll be in 2045 in the USA. |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 12:08:58 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We need an eclipse subforum. I would say we need an edgelord forum but I guess that's what GD is |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 1:31:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah you’ll have all of the EU able and wanting to get there. Also. The 2026 eclipse in Spain will be very low on the horizon (in fact it’ll still be partial at sunset) so you better make sure you have a good view of the western horizon. that kind of sucks. especially because it rains a lot in the north during august. |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 3:34:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It was one of the most awesome things I have ever seen. To look up at a twilight sky, so swift it seemed as if brought on by a lightswitch ...seeing planets emerge ... and seeing a big black hole where the sun was supposed to be ... and the crown of the corona around it ... the sunset-esque colors all around the perimeter of the horizon ... the color of the sky around the sun - a deep neon-ish blue/purple - colors, a gradient of colors I don't think I've ever seen in my life... ... it brought me to tears. It's hard to explain it but there are lights and colors during totality that chemical or digital imaging are unable to capture or reproduce. It triggers almost primal feelings when you experience it and combined with all the associated ambience and stimuli it's just a profoundly moving experience. Now imagine not having the tiniest amount of knowledge of planets, stars and orbits. Nor even knowing of the existence of an eclipse and then imagine all those senses and emotions along with the fear of not knowing what's going on or knowing if the sun will re-emerge in a few minutes. |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 4:10:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's hard to explain it but there are lights and colors during totality that chemical or digital imaging are unable to capture or reproduce. It triggers almost primal feelings when you experience it and combined with all the associated ambience and stimuli it's just a profoundly moving experience. Now imagine not having the tiniest amount of knowledge of planets, stars and orbits. Nor even knowing of the existence of an eclipse and then imagine all those senses and emotions along with the fear of not knowing what's going on or knowing if the sun will re-emerge in a few minutes. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It was one of the most awesome things I have ever seen. To look up at a twilight sky, so swift it seemed as if brought on by a lightswitch ...seeing planets emerge ... and seeing a big black hole where the sun was supposed to be ... and the crown of the corona around it ... the sunset-esque colors all around the perimeter of the horizon ... the color of the sky around the sun - a deep neon-ish blue/purple - colors, a gradient of colors I don't think I've ever seen in my life... ... it brought me to tears. It's hard to explain it but there are lights and colors during totality that chemical or digital imaging are unable to capture or reproduce. It triggers almost primal feelings when you experience it and combined with all the associated ambience and stimuli it's just a profoundly moving experience. Now imagine not having the tiniest amount of knowledge of planets, stars and orbits. Nor even knowing of the existence of an eclipse and then imagine all those senses and emotions along with the fear of not knowing what's going on or knowing if the sun will re-emerge in a few minutes. It's like the difference between watching movies of people shooting machine guns and actually shooting machine guns. It's an entire different experience that cannot be conveyed in images, same as "why do you ride a motorcycle?" Add in the.. I guess "Fluorescent blue" colors that cannot come through in a photograph. Sort of like looking at UV Bulb but a lot different, the way neon pink or orange just show up reddish or orange in a photograph, without that 'pop' from the UV fluorescing dye in the neon colors used in fish lures and hunting clothes. That aspect of the color simply cannot be reproduced, it's a mix with something at the edges of human perception inside our eye capabilities but outside a camera's ability to reproduce perfectly, and during the eclipse the sky takes on that extra bit in lots of the colors from the whitish corona to the sunset edges. It's an experience, and if you haven't had it, there's no way to explain it to you and no amount of pictures and video will help. It's like trying to explain what sex is like, or shooting a machine gun, or riding a bike, or.... |
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Posted: 4/14/2024 8:52:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Meh....just let the "empire" build the death star and block the sun with it....... |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 1:30:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And then that whinny Luke blows the damn thing right before it starts to uncover the sun. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Meh....just let the "empire" build the death star and block the sun with it....... I'm sure that if there are aliens on the moon, we're already conquered and don't need to fret it. The best argument against an alien takeover is that if they were going to, it would have already happened in the span of history they've had to work with vs what we have seen. Well, Unless carelessly transmitting radio signals and nuke EMP out to advanced civilizations to come and loot us was a bad idea. That's the wildcard that is different in the past 80-150 years compared to previous history. |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 9:11:29 AM EDT
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 kinda pissed that i saw this after the event Guinness should of had a promotion |
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