You’re thinking of Haley’s comet. Easy mistake.
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“it’s just the moon” is honestly a wild opinion to me.
It’s just the massive orb that circles our world through all of known history, which bends the oceans and tectonic crusts with it’s movement, that inspired incredible amounts of art and culture, and is about to create a phenomenon which blots out the sun, in an incredible coincidence of size, position and timing, as the latest iteration of a pattern that may well have been the original inspiration for ways of thinking that went on to become the foundation for all of scientific thought. Nbd.
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In other words: your existence is pitiful.
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Ui ui ui, someone got grumpy. Maybe it has something to do with the fact you don’t have any wonder for the beauty of the universe.
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Wow, the wittle troll got weally mad! So spoopy.
I’m sorry you have to work during the eclipse. I understand that it’s moot whether or not you would enjoy it when it isn’t something that you have time for anyways, and that would make me frustrated by everyone talking about it too.
I don’t really believe you that don’t care about any of that tho lol. Maybe not as much as your responsibilities, but no way you don’t care at all.
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Let people enjoy things.
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They’re really not that interesting unless you’re in totality.
Then the world turns upside down. The sun is replaced with a black disk in the sky, with whispy tendrils of corona. The birds all land in the trees and the dogs all start barking. The crickets and frogs think it’s nighttime and start making a huge racket. For a couple minutes the world is unlike anything you’ve seen.
And then it ends and you’re stuck in a 15 hour traffic jam with all the rest of the people who’ve experienced an other-worldly event.
(I saw the one in 2017 but I’m skipping this one.)
I still found the 85% one in 2017 really freaking cool. Getting about 90% this time!
Unlike anything you’ve seen, except for a dark evening. I saw 2017 as well and the shadows were cool but I really don’t think it was worth the hype.
Don’t yuck my yum 🖖
I’m gonna yum your yuck 🤌
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You’re getting downvoted, however it’s quite honestly a valid opinion.
Yeah I saw the last one and was honestly pretty annoyed by all the hype. It got dark. The shadows were cool though.
There was a great episode of NOVA on pbs last night talking indepth about eclipses and their frequency. The gist wad that they have known how to predict them to within 4 minutes and they occur about every 7 years
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Solar eclipses happen every 1-3 years.
But the darkest shadow called the umbra only falls in a very tiny place, slightly bigger than a few Districts and that shadow moves in a line and those places experience total solar eclipse.
So next year there may be another solar eclipse but New York will not experience a total solar eclipse for a long time.
Also two-thirds of the earth is water so most of the time the umbra falls on the sea.
Got lucky here as the clouds melted away enabling a good look from about 30% onward. Reinforced for me the fact that even though we are not even a microscopic part of the cosmic whole this event, also not a microscopic part of the infinity of the universe, is still a very moving and impressive thing
It’s hard to say because all of the figures come from different places, and the news articles always like to say the longer figures to gather more attention.
ex: There won’t be another eclipse over Ohio for ___ years vs There won’t be another eclipse over the continental U.S. for ___ years vs There won’t be another eclipse anywhere in the world for ___ years
The problem is there are different once in a century events every year or two
Even with cloud cover, seeing it at home was something special. I know what it’s supposed to look and sound like at that hour. It wasn’t the same as night - I could still see sunlight on the horizon all around me. I could sense that the wildlife was confused by it - all the birds just flew to the tops of the trees and were trying to make sense of what was happening. The bugs went quiet, and we were all whispering for no apparent reason - it just felt appropriate. The slow descent into darkness was unsettling, especially under cloud cover - it felt like we were under the gaze of a passing giant we could not see. I was surprised by how relieved I felt when the light started to return. It wasn’t what I was expecting but the strangeness of it didn’t disappoint, and I don’t think seeing it away from home would have been quite the same.
You put it very eloquently. I had the same feeling - it was a primal uneasiness.
Who the hell witnesses totality “every year and a half”? Moron.
Once in a lifetime on the current track maybe. But the next one after this one happend in 2033.
I was 20km from the path of the totality. The next one I’ll even be able to see a partial eclipse isn’t happening until ~2045.
You didn’t bother to travel 20km to see the totality?
It was 3pm on a work day, so no that wasn’t an option.
Jesus, imagine missing out on one of the most incredible things you could witness, that you may never have a chance to experience again, because you didn’t want to miss a couple hours of work. Freaking capitalism, man.
Buddy, I have bills and the options were “see totality and lose job” or “see 99% coverage and keep job”.
Unless you are a surgeon or something else that could result in lost lives if you took off 2 hours to see possibly the most spectacular thing our planet has to offer… I think you really need to reevaluate your job if you would have gotten fired for that. Personally, I’d be bitter as fuck.
99% coverage is essentially the same as 1% coverage. Things may get a little dimmer, but it’s completely different from 100% coverage. It’s not a gradient, you don’t get 99% of the experience by being in 99% coverage. I really can’t stress how much you missed out on, and hope that you make an effort to see the next US one in 20 years, or travel internationally to see a sooner one. Hopefully you’ll have a better job by that time.
Here’s a relevant xkcd on the matter. I think the alt-text sums it up. “A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky.”
You act as though I’m not bitter about it. You pointing out how great it was and how much it sucks that I missed it only makes me more bitter.
There is no job market where I live. As in within my friend group, we have collectively applied to ~30 jobs in the last year and gotten 2 responses. My employer was very clear that they were not giving time off for the eclipse, so that wasn’t an option. And had I just left, bye bye job. Can’t pay rent, can’t afford food.
If you want to point out how much it sucks, by all means. But don’t act like you know my situation, like I don’t know what I had to miss out on, and then point to fucking xkcd saying “see? I’m right”.
Grow some fucking perspective.
Sadly (or not), Life is a crapshoot.
Hey, you can’t tell people in the past that! They might figure out the moon gets destroyed later. You want the time authority to vaporize you or something?
I am a Time Authority. Not a Lord, mind you. Those worthies get to tool around those fancy teleboxes doing all kinds of adventurous, dare i say, romatic escapades. We mere Authorities merely monitor and report. Vaporization is above my pay grade
the likelihood that you get an eclipse with totality near enough to you where you can see it.
Is basically zero.
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Saw it with totality.
Worth it.
Even if you only get a once in a lifetime shot, do it.
I saw the 2017 one and I’m curious what you mean by worth it? Like, worth the effort to go outside and look up? I personally wouldn’t go out of my way to see it again. It was cool but not, $1000 dollar for a campsite cool.
I saw the 2017, and spent well over $3k to travel with my family to see it again today. Granted it was more so I could show it to THEM, but I wanted to see it again too.
Same. Travelled to SC for 2017 with my wife and 1 year old.
Was so awe-struck that I flew my wife, now-7-year old, and 4 year old, to Texas to view it here. Also to check out Houston, Austin, and Dallas. Austin was by far the coolest. Wish I spent more time there. Almost want to move.
Fly on a plane + hotel cool.
It cost us a hotel room at a marginally inflated rate (less than $200). Eclipses aren’t a secret so you can plan/buy ahead, you don’t get caught up in the price gouging. We packed food and drinks in a cooler to save $.
I’m not sure what you mean by going “outside and looking up” other than maybe trying to be dismissive. If you live in the path of totality, going outside and looking up (with appropriate eye protection) is a serious piece of luck, a luxury, and paying “1000 for a campsite” isn’t a problem. If you don’t live in the path of totality then you don’t get to see it - and seeing totality is what’s “worth it”, not just the moon partially blocking the sun.
The comment said “worth it” without specifying what it was worth. That was the reason for me asking what worth it meant. Was it worth traveling? Paying for a flight? Taking a day off? Simply walking outside? The effort to see it is relevant to know what it means when they said “worth it.” Hope that helps you understand.
Don’t know what to tell you. “Worth it” was my personal opinion of the event and efforts to see it, to which you seemed clearly to indicate that such an event was not worth going out of your way for or paying lots of money to see. I don’t understand what me providing further information could offer you.
If you want I’ll gladly share our process, but I cannot help you with your personal feelings of whether our efforts were subjectively “worth it” by your measure.
You did tell me what you did to see the eclipse in your follow up comment, which showed me what you thought was worth it. It seems like you are taking more offense than was implied. My question was simply to learn what the effort was.
As for my personal feelings I don’t need help. I’ve seen a total solar eclipse and know what effort I would go through to see another. There isn’t even an argument her. I was simply looking for clarification which you provided in your follow up.
Yeah, after seeing a total eclipse, all those partial eclipses seem like nothing. I’m not sure I’ll even bother watching a partial or annular eclipse again.
Glad you were able to see it without cloud cover. I ended up changing my destination this morning due to cloud forecast.
Did you get to see it when you moved?
Yeah, had a clear view of it :)
Awesome!
I just did too. It was really cool!
Maybe a location thing. The current eclipse passes through NY today, the next one touching NY won’t be until 2079. Texas 2045. So it’s all over the place time-wise between eclipses and location.
Also there are a lot more partial eclipses then total like today.
