Posted on 08/21/2017 9:10:36 AM PDT by C19fan
Totality is everything, say those who chase solar eclipses. When the moon fully obscures the sun and casts its shadow on Earth, the result is like nothing you’ve seen before—not even a partial eclipse. A merely partial eclipse does not flip day to night, because the sun is bright enough to light our fields of vision with only a tiny fraction of its power. But when the sun and moon align just so, a little piece of Earth goes dark in the middle of the day. In this path of totality, night comes suddenly and one can see the shape of the moon as a circle darker than black, marked by the faint backlight of the sun’s corona. Astronomers and eclipse chasers chart carefully to be sure that they can watch from exactly the right place at the right time. They know that you cannot compromise with the sun. For a dark sky, the sun must be banished altogether.
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JOEL 2:32
In those days I will pour out my Spirit
even on servants—men and women alike.
30
And I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth—
blood and fire and columns of smoke.
31
The sun will become dark,
and the moon will turn blood red
before that great and terrible[f] day of the Lord arrives.
32
But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
will be saved,
” It has been dubbed the Great American Eclipse, and along most of its path, there live almost no black people.”
“the skies are relaying a message”
This eclipse will not be showing in m*slim countries. So that means that the skies are relaying a message, but I’ll be damned if I know what the hell it is!
This is really insanity. These people do not live in the same world as us normal people. There is no reality for them.
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Pick pockets are having a field day.
It is really cool to watch. So far about half covered. No noticeable political implications yet but I’ll keep watching. Totality will come in about 10:19 am.
Where are you?
Don’t take off your shoes!
Albany, Oregon. 10:17 am is our time of totality. Beautiful to see.
I give up.
Now even astronomy is racist?
Don’t say “blackout” ... that’s racist.
Yeah. Black Holes.
Central MO outside Columbia on the Missouri River. Awesome!!!
Right up there with seeing the Grand Canyon.
The author seems to be missing a few points about eclipses. Firstly, they are temporary. Within minutes, the sky is as it was before the event. Secondly, when the Sun is eclipsed, you can see things that could not be seen in the light of day, such as stars and the Solar corona. If you know what you are looking it is a marvel, not an omen.
Only +/- 5 minutes from totality, if that, was the sky darkened noticeably.
Has anyone ever seen an annular eclipse? I am guessing they are not all that majestic - since even a small sliver of the sun lights up the sky quite a bit.
Well, there’s an annular eclipse due for the western USA (Oregon-Texas) on Oct 14, 2023, with the next total solar eclipse (Texas-Maine) on Apr 8, 2024.
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