"Burned out her retinath thtarin' into an Ee-clipthe."
Posted on 12/08/2017 4:17:52 PM PST by SMGFan
I watched it for a while and it didn’t hurt my eyes. I figured it wouldn’t bother me, and it didn’t seem to
That’s looking west where the eclipse originated. I didn’t see the shadow swoop over us, but the whole valley to the west descended into darkness, then somebody yelled “There it is” and I turned around to see - TOTALITY! Most incredible thing ever. Absolutely spellbinding.
And no burned retina! I can’t imagine being told “You burned a crescent into your retina. We cannot fix that.”
Same here. :-).
My brother traveled a day in a car to see the eclipse for an hour and then immediately turned around and drove back. LOL.
Saw the eclipse in Geneva, Nebraska and got stunning pictures. Was prepared with protective glasses and a camera lens filter my son helped me make with his 3D printer. There was ample warning about not viewing the sun directly and protective glasses were widely available
I had a welders shield(just the lens, not the whole mask) and a pair of sun glasses. Old Mr. Star is nothing to fool around with.
The glasses themselves were probably the biggest issue. They may have focused the light rays, like a magnifying glass.
“Nope. God worshipper.”
Reading posts like this almost makes me wish I had not taken on a consulting job for that week and drove a few hundred miles instead.
Regarding God - there are verses in the Bible that talk about God placing stuff in the “heavens”, and they are for signs, etc.
I’ve always thought that a total eclipse was a great sign from God. Not of impending doom or whatever - but that He is the Creator.
The sun is the perfect size.
The moon is the perfect size.
The sun is the perfect distance.
The moon is the perfect distance.
And a subset (but more importantly) the moon has a really good mass (perfect??), and distance that affect our ocean tides to keep the shallow ocean water moving and beaches clean, etc.
It was pretty awesome from our end too. Before it began, I gathered everyone up to let them know what phenomena were coming. Bailey’s Beads, Diamond ring etc.
I told them that millions of people were gathered around to see the handiwork of God but our son had the best view of the sun of anyone in the world.
He’s on the flight operations team of a satellite that monitors sunspot activity. Since the satellite was past the moon, he wouldn’t see any of the eclipse.
Yeah that ball of fire 8 light minutes away from us is mighty powerful and big in comparison to us here on tiny earth.
And mankind is alive at that very geological “moment” to observe the resulting eclipses. As the moons orbit degrades, they will change.
"Burned out her retinath thtarin' into an Ee-clipthe."
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