You are correct. I just drove down the local highway and had a big beautiful full moon swim into view.
Outside of Hollywood, and "Out to Sea", there's no way that moon is going to be able to get between the Earth and the Sun in one day. It would take at least two weeks.
The eclipse will be a lunar eclipse, very early in the morning, East Coast time.
Still, it gives everyone a chance to note that the shadow of the Earth is round, as it covers the moon. Proof that the world is spherical.
Spheroid. Oblate, to be precise.
Very nearly spherical, but gravitationally prevented from achieving such, with a slight protuberance to one side. A common chicken egg would make a good, albeit quite "ex-egg-erated," 3D model of the form.
Rats.
This whole ___oid thing is just wrong.
I get into this odd mental state where I think things like this:
If 'Preparation H' relieves problems with hemorrhoids, should the great Wall of China be 'Preparation M'?
I'm ROFLOL, but it's probably totally obtuse. That or it'll just hang there in the atmosphere until next weekend when you'll burst out laughing in church.
You're headed for space, and you've packed your 'Preparation H' in case of hemorrhoids, but what will you do in case of asteroids? And -- Extra for Experts -- could they be the same thing? And would that, then, mean the treatment strategy for them would be the same: cream 'em??
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