Oldgator73
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I experienced it while mowing the yard.
No.I'm certain no one thought the eclipse was magic. It was however truly awesome. Doesn't BFD refer to the Affordable Healthcare Act?
You mean as in, "this is a big ....... deal"?No.
The letters stand for “Big “F-ing Deal.”
Very well done Larry. That is a great looking photo rig you got there.I finally finished a video of the partial eclipse we got here (65% obscuration). I took short clips of video every few minutes, and compiled some of them into a sequence that shows the movement of the sun (in the viewfinder) and the progression of the "bites" the moon takes from the sun. The 3:40 video is:
Thanks, Tom- I enjoyed making it.Very well done Larry. That is a great looking photo rig you got there.
I saw that briefly on the news Tuesday morning. It was sort of freaky to see that huge shadow moving over the earth. Sci-Fi movie stuff right there, LOL....they showed a view of the moon's shadow moving across the earth surface (at 1000 miles per hour) from the space station.
There 'ya go. IMO anything short of that kind of totality might have been interesting, but hardly awe inspiring. Totality? That's something else.Even when there was just a small sliver of sun left, you could see just fine although the light was strange. When totality hit it was like a light switch, total darkness. Off came the glasses and temps dropped.
Absolutely, it’s nice once in awhile to have a collective experience that doesn’t involve a ball, a finish line, tribal politics, religion, race, ethnicity, hate, or opinions, just experience it for what it is.Once in a lifetime celestial events tend to make people get excited.
Then there's a lot of very happy people out there.“Happiness occurs when the mind stops”
And likely smarter, small minds, like small cpu's, just have to work harder and crash often.Then there's a lot of very happy people out there.