Solar eclipse

[Spoonsky]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/21/us/solar-eclipse-2017/index.html

It's going to be amazing I hope. We're driving up to Idaho on Sunday to be in the ZONE OF TOTALITY. The traffic is probably going to be at apocalypse movie-levels, and at Salt Lake Airport yesterday there was a guy holding a sign that said "eclipse du souleil" waiting for his French tourist group.

Pepe Mert mikem @bruhdinho Danny any plans?

[Spikey M]

Ah, America. You'd be lucky if people bothered to look out the window at it here.

[bruhnaldo]

i'm pretty excited about it. we're only getting like 90% totality IIRC from the map but it's still pretty awesome.

shame i'm working but i'm sure the entire country is going to stop and watch for like an hour and a half lol

[Pepe]

Like an idiot I left things until the last day, so I don't have eclipse glasses. But yes, we'll be going to check it out. We only have to drive like thirty minutes to be in the sweetspot, so that's nice.

[John]

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/eclipse_searches.png

[Offshore Toon]

"Amazing"?

[Spoonsky]

What's amazing to you?

[John]

A proper solar eclipse is one of the few events that make you understand for a moment why primitive people got so shit scared they invented Gods and started sacrificing things to them.

[Magic]

Hopefully a van ploughs in to them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We had this in 1999 - 'Tony's Eclipse', as it is better known in folklore - and I'm pretty sure the whole country basically did stop for it.

[Disco]

It is pretty amazing, the one we had here in I want to say 1999 was incredible. We made a special trip (fuck you Spikey) and went and sat on the headland in Dartmouth and watched the shadow race across Start Bay. The minute or so of complete darkness in the middle of the day was pretty eerie, you can see why it fucked with Pagans so much.

I can heartily recommend a little piece of welders glass if you want to watch it directly, far more convenient than those little obscura things.

[Mike]

If it was over here, it'd just rain and nobody would see anything.

[bruhnaldo]

I wonder how many people will go blind with fake glasses?

I'm not even joking.

[Pepe]

It should be immediately obvious if your glasses are not up to the task, but probably a few.

[bruhnaldo]

Does it blow anybody else up that the moon is perfectly sized and placed in between the Earth and the Sun to the point that it covers it like this though?

The "halo" you're supposed to see in totality is just the sun's atmosphere apparently. I always wondered why people didn't make more of a fuss about this? Seems kinda fucking spot-on, 93 million miles away, perfect to scale like that.


It should be immediately obvious if your glasses are not up to the task, but probably a few.

I was just reading an Amazon review with a guy who said "I was staring at the sun for awhile but I started to get water in my eyes after a few seconds.. I'm afraid these might be counterfeit but I'm not sure?" I don't have a lot of faith if I'm honest.

[John]

Anyone getting blinded for that reason doesn't deserve sight.

[Pepe]

Does it blow anybody else up that the moon is perfectly sized and placed in between the Earth and the Sun to the point that it covers it like this though?

It won't always be like that though.

[bruhnaldo]

You don't find it odd that in the "AGE OF MAN" that it is, though?

[Spikey M]

Does it blow anybody else up that the moon is perfectly sized and placed in between the Earth and the Sun to the point that it covers it like this though?

The "halo" you're supposed to see in totality is just the sun's atmosphere apparently. I always wondered why people didn't make more of a fuss about this? Seems kinda fucking spot-on, 93 million miles away, perfect to scale like that.



I was just reading an Amazon review with a guy who said "I was staring at the sun for awhile but I started to get water in my eyes after a few seconds.. I'm afraid these might be counterfeit but I'm not sure?" I don't have a lot of faith if I'm honest.

The moon is slowly moving away. It isn't perfectly placed, it has previously been too close and soon (astronomically) it will be too far away.

[Pepe]

Pretty amazing, yes.

[7om]

I'm due to get about 70% eclipse in my area, so I'll give it a go.

[Lewis]

We had this in 1999 - 'Tony's Eclipse', as it is better known in folklore - and I'm pretty sure the whole country basically did stop for it.

GMTV had people in Cornwall forcing everyone to wish Princess Diana had been here to see it.

[bruhnaldo]

My buddy has a couple pairs of glasses he's gonna hook me up with :drool:

We're in business, baby.

[Offshore Toon]

What's amazing to you?
Two lesbians, probably. Sisters. I'm just watching.

[Spikey M]

I remember the 1999 one actually. I was camping with some cousins and worrying because Nostradamus had predicted (some bellend read into his waffle) the end of the world coming immediately after it.

Still waiting :(

[Offshore Toon]

I imagine the millennium bug is still slowly ticking away, biding its time, lulling us into a false sense of security.

I also remember the 1999 one, kinda. I don't remember it being AMAZING at all, but I'd obviously still try to witness another one. Are we due another one soon?

[Magic]

Wasn't there an awesome ONCE IN A LIFETIME one the other year?

[Spikey M]

There was an eclipse 3 or 4 years ago. It was cloudy all day so just went a bit dark. I remember standing at my office window loling at the gimps pointing their fancy telescopes at a massive bank of cloud.

[Magic]

I remember going outside there wasn't a cloud in the sky, it just got...weird. It wasn't dark by any means but it looked really dull...fake almost.

FAKE SUN.

[John Arne]

Sky News just interviewed some "animal expert" regarding the eclipse. This yank bloke reckons animals are gong to be terribly confused, some wanting to sleep immediately, some waking up and wanting food.....
Dude, it's going to get slightly grey and a little bit cold for 3 or 4 minutes... I imagine the animals won't even notice.

Also, I see it's being called THE GREAT AMERICAN ECLIPSE... oh, fuck off.

[Raoul Duke]

It'd be a great time for North Korea to chuck some missiles over

[niko_cee]

I saw the total solar eclipse in Port Douglas a few years ago and, having been somewhat underwhelmed by the one we had here in the late 90s (I think we were only in a 90% totality zone), I was surprised at how awesome it was. For a sleepy little place it was absolutely mental how many people turned up to see it.

+1 on Disco's welder's mask tip, by far the best viewing method.

[Pepe]

Very few welding masks have a high enough rating.

[bruhnaldo]

I got my special shades and i'm ready ya'll.

[John Arne]

Yanks cheering and shouting at an eclipse..... fucking knobheads. Not you, bruh.

[bruhnaldo]

Just went out to see if it was starting yet. Still 100% full but it was cool to "look at" the sun with the little glasses on.

Eyes still feel a bit wonky though... honestly think we're gonna hear about a lot of people who didn't heed the warnings.

[niko_cee]

Is the danger that your eye focuses on the 'sun' (which it can't normally do) and then bang goes your vision as soon as totality passes and you're still looking at it?

[bruhnaldo]

the eclipse was awesome

[Boydy]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHxn5EAUIAAD8Vj.jpg

[niko_cee]

:D

World class eyes. The best.

[bruhnaldo]

http://i.imgur.com/OMsrmoP.png

[Lewis]

You always have a little look without the glasses.

[bruhnaldo]

http://i.imgur.com/c2LFRER.png

[Pepe]

Lulz.

http://i.imgur.com/XIUkDqx.jpg

[Offshore Toon]

That's got to be the worst way to experience it.

[Pepe]

Same shit you see with the glasses on. Only the total eclipse itself is any sort of 'experience.' A two minute long one.

[Magic]

Did it actually go dark or was it just like a cloud went over the sun?

[Raoul Duke]

They should get one of Elon Musk's rockets and dump all those shitty Confederate statues on the moon. That would truly vex the mouthbreathers who don't "believe" in the moon landings.

[Disco]

Did it actually go dark or was it just like a cloud went over the sun?

It's feels like the middle of the night but probably exacerbated by the contrast, plus it actually gets cold(er) which I wasn't expecting and made it all the more eerie.

[Giggles]

Why is there so much about this? Twitter is absolutely loaded with it. I thought they happened recently enough to mean it wasn't a massive deal, or is it just because the yanks can see it this time?

[Magic]

It's feels like the middle of the night but probably exacerbated by the contrast, plus it actually gets cold(er) which I wasn't expecting and made it all the more eerie.

Was this from a couple of years ago in the UK or the one just now?

[Disco]

The one in 99.

[Pepe]

Did it actually go dark or was it just like a cloud went over the sun?

It did go dark, although not middle-of-the-night dark. It actually starts getting dark (and cooler) a few minutes before, even though the sun still seems to be out at full force. Then the total eclipse comes and you stare at it for a few minutes (and Americans shout) and then you go home.


Why is there so much about this? Twitter is absolutely loaded with it. I thought they happened recently enough to mean it wasn't a massive deal, or is it just because the yanks can see it this time?

I think it's the first one that hits the US since the 15th century or something like that.

[Spoonsky]

It was pretty incredible. So was the traffic coming home. We made it 35 miles in five hours. :drool:

[Pepe]

I figured the traffic would be complete hell, so we took the scooter (original plan was to rent a car.) In the end we faced no traffic, but I took side roads. I bet the hghway was a nightmare.

[Disco]

These guys were prepared.

http://i.imgur.com/EkWoPjt.jpg

[ItalAussie]

Sydney gets a total eclipse in 2028. Should be fun.