This is right up there with pronouncements of disaster from 2K computer programming faults. Turns out to be a vast amount of hype about nothing at all.
A fleeting moment of shadow, perhaps near-total darkness, then re-emerging light. All explicable by examination of known celestial mechanics.
All else is sheer superstition.
Those aren’t aliens...they are politicians.
Hopkinsville, Kentucky is now known as Eclipseville.
The city of 32,000 will be one of the many areas you’ll be able to fully see the total solar eclipse.
More than 100,000 people are expected to roll into town on Monday. The mayor says his town has been planning for this occasion since 2007.
http://wwmt.com/news/offbeat/in-lead-up-to-lunar-phenomenon-kentucky-city-now-known-as-eclipseville
Any Freepers live in the area?
The Mayans didn’t predict this one because they quit 4 1/2 years too soon.
A huge number of people put a great deal of effort into fixing Y2K-related bugs. Those fixes prevented Y2K from being much worse than it otherwise would have been. While it clearly wouldn’t have been the cataclysm some people predicted, the effects were real and much code needed to be reworked.