Eclipse 2024

[umjewman]

My 8 year-old turned to me afterwards and just says "Well, that was underwhelming." Which made me laugh, because he's 8 and he's talking about being underwhelmed.

Granted, we did not go anywhere special and we only had I think 89% totality in our area, but I felt sufficiently whelmed.

[madducks]

Sales of eclipse glasses and eclipse T-shirts were overwhelming.

[TranaGreg]

Well that was different. It was pretty cool with all the hoopla & concern about travel to be able to simply experience it in my backyard. We had friends over so we just hung out on the back porch with some drinks & snacks. Altho there were clouds we could still see the sun through them until maybe 5 mins before it was fully covered. I knew it was going to get cooler but the change in temp really was something. And then when it got fully dark it all happened very quickly. Even tho it was like night in terms of darkness there was always light across the horizon.
I can totally see how without the benefit of our level of knowledge it would have seemed like the gods were kind of pissed off.

[madducks]

Just another reason to take the day off and try to witness the glorious event. Man the twitter crazies are all over this in every way you can imagine and some you can't. They will be slaughtering a red heifer, aliens will arrive, earthquakes, locusts, cats and dogs living together....Monday is going to be big ! Prepare yourself

You forgot cicadapocalypse.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/world/cicadas-2024-broods-xix-xiii-scn/index.html

[Steve 2.0]

Well that was different. It was pretty cool with all the hoopla & concern about travel to be able to simply experience it in my backyard. We had friends over so we just hung out on the back porch with some drinks & snacks. Altho there were clouds we could still see the sun through them until maybe 5 mins before it was fully covered. I knew it was going to get cooler but the change in temp really was something. And then when it got fully dark it all happened very quickly. Even tho it was like night in terms of darkness there was always light across the horizon.
I can totally see how without the benefit of our level of knowledge it would have seemed like the gods were kind of pissed off.

They weren't?