The Second Apocalypse
Miscellaneous Chatter => General Misc. => Topic started by: Madness on August 17, 2017, 02:36:40 pm
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One article (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/07/hopkinsville-kentucky-eclipseville-solar-eclipse-2017/545206001/), of many, I've read the past week.
Someone mentioned in comments on io9 article that they're surprised how much this eclipse is being popularized as opposed to say the semi-recent Super Blood Moon.
As per my link above, I do appreciate the simple and overwhelming logistics of hosting a population far exceeding your small-town location.
Handy NASA Interactive Map (https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/interactive_map/index.html)
Anyone else have thoughts, in any tangential direction, on this?
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About 2 hours south of me there is a tiny town of about 10,000 which is the only place for hundreds of miles that is supposed to have a clear view of it (due to cloud coverage elsewhere).
No thanks. I'll watch a youtube video of it or something, that's just too many humans. I hear its cool though.
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I would do the same. lol
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It seems to me that there is a great amount of actual science, parascience, and mystique attached to a total American-centric eclipse that is fairly unprecedented as compared to other partial/anomalous eclipses.
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It seems to me that there is a great amount of actual science, parascience, and mystique attached to a total American-centric eclipse that is fairly unprecedented as compared to other partial/anomalous eclipses.
Total eclipses are drastically different than partial. If nothing else, even a 99% eclipse looks like a cloudy day, while a total eclipse turns day to night and you can see stars, temperatures drop 10-20 degrees F immediately, wildlifes goes nuts, etc., for th 2.5 minutes that its suddenly night.
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Eclipse photos! (http://gizmodo.com/stare-all-you-want-at-these-incredible-eclipse-images-1798213012)