I'm gonna grab a lawn chair and couple of cold ones and watch it all go down from the comfort of my back yard!!
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.” -Robert Heinlein
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
I'm gonna grab a lawn chair and couple of cold ones and watch it all go down from the comfort of my back yard!!
Watched the 2017 one from my backyard. Another in 1984. Extraordinary experience in person.
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
I have read that the temperature drops dramatically (obviously I guess) and birds start roosting as think it's the end of the day. I wonder what other phenomena occurs?
I have read that the temperature drops dramatically (obviously I guess) and birds start roosting as think it's the end of the day. I wonder what other phenomena occurs?
Do you guys get any neo-druids visiting Stonehenge during solar eclipses?
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
I have read that the temperature drops dramatically (obviously I guess) and birds start roosting as think it's the end of the day. I wonder what other phenomena occurs?
In these modern times... mass migrations of humans to points along the path of totality. Hotels and VRBOs, etc. hitting max. capacity. (Not what you were looking for, I know)
I have read that the temperature drops dramatically (obviously I guess) and birds start roosting as think it's the end of the day. I wonder what other phenomena occurs?
Crickets etc start "cricketing". During the 1984 eclipse I was at a house with a lot of big trees in the yard, the light shining through the tiny holes in the leaves covered the ground with millions of little cresents.
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Thing is, we live very near Lake Erie. Very moist and cloudy much of the time (today is perfect for March and/or an Eclipse -- 70+ degrees, clear sky, bright sun).
We'll see if we see more than an "early Sunset" darkening on Eclipse day.
In person, it is even more filamentous. The camcorder tends to blow it out. The totality period is only a couple of minutes out of those two hours. You won't even notice much until 15 minutes on either side. It just seems like their is a haze that you can't really see. About 20 seconds before totality, it's like somebody took a giant dimmer switch and turned down the world.
The older I get, the more I realize I don't need to be Han, Luke or Leia. I'm just happy to be rebel scum...
If things go as they did for the 2017 eclipse all the welding glasses etc are probably already sold out in the effected areas.
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
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