Posted on 04/05/2024 6:22:23 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Nothing is shifting, other than the weather.
Due to climate change
That’s right, but it’s still a wise idea 💡 to be prepared for disaster.
Oh cmon….
This is a celestial event…this screw up in mapping has nuthin’ 2 do with climate change.
However, that earthquake today, west of Manhattan….now THAT was the climate change.
One can always watch it on the internet. That’s what I do.
115-mile path from Maine to Texas. Dafuq?
Texas to Maine might be a few more miles, perhaps 3?
Bill Nye is actually in the Texas Hill Country, to watch this eclipse ... I’ve been told 👀
The physics of climate change are forever changing. It even affects the path of the moon and the sun and the position of the earth.
We’re not worthy
Maybe width, not length.
🙃
Bill Shatner is such an Effingham…
Got my welding hoods cleaned up. Checked them out. They make the sun look like a slightly greenish-yellow orb.
Turn around bright eyes 🎵
This is a nothingburger, people travel to see eclipses near the center line of a path nearly 120 miles wide, and the shifts are along the edges. Very few people would have been aware of exact locations of those edges, and in fact if you’re on the edge, you only get a few seconds of totality, not the 3-4 minutes close to the center line.
I guess the last minute differences are based on more precise observations of lunar positions which are generally known to high accuracy, but not such accuracy that the exact edges of the eclipse path were known with 100% certainty.
The people “missing” by half a mile will see almost the same as what people a half mile inside the track will see, a very brief near-darkness during which a diamond ring effect will be visible almost continuously, for about a minute. Another half mile off the edge of the track, and it will just be a case of near-total coverage but enough daylight that it won’t turn “dark” and the sunlight will be too strong to allow a view of the diamond ring (which happens because the Sun is shining through lower spots on a hilly profile of the moon’s outer limb).
It’s not looking great from about Dallas to n.w Ohio due to cloud, would say upstate NY and south Texas are best bets now (as I thought weeks ago).
Still…as a public service… Is welding helmet safe for eclipse?
I’m on the 98% line. That’s good enough for me.
Why are millions of people traveling to see darkness? Can’t they just wait for the sun to go down?
I agree in part, and dissent in part.
Yes, being off by a few miles on the edge of totality will impact only people who were planning on being on that border.
No….in that we’ve been lectured that “the science is settled” on shots, global warming, EVs, and all of their pet projects. But something like an eclipse…they get wrong.
Now, I never consider science to be settled. It’s settled, until it isn’t. That’s life.
So when these rat bastidz get it wrong, it should be bookmarked.
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