Posted on 05/15/2022 3:37:07 PM PDT by bitt
Nickias classic putz leader
Nicias was like George McClellan...too cautious. Thucydides admired him but has to concede that he was too superstitious.
There’s a reason for that, having been in the zone of totality of a solar eclipse a few years ago.
This!
I’ve never seen the light as strange as it appeared in the last total solar eclipse I experienced. Not like anything that happens at any time of day, year, or any kind of weather.
I had people say something like “I was in 98% eclipse zone”.
The difference between being in a 98% solar eclipse and experiencing totality is like the difference between kissing a woman and making love to a woman.
Complete totality may not have been viewable from where I was - Washington DC in August 2017 - but it was weird enough.
I seem to recall one from early childhood where it really got dark.
The partial eclipse has started where I am and I can see it - no clouds.
Can’t see anything here - I’m watching Kopernik online, now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5F6mG6l8pw
Clouds FINALLY parted here in East Tennessee...moon about 50% ‘eclipsed’.
I have a shadow.
You have a shadow.
This is proof we both exist.
Why can’t we be friends?
Why can’t we be friends?
Why can’t we be friends?
Why can’t we be friends?
Very weird to watch this and realize that we are specks on that big thing shadowing the moon...like looking into a weird sort of cosmic mirror.
I was remarking to my wife earlier today about how my freinds and I used to postulate that our universe might be on the head of a pin displayed in God’s cosmic curio cabinet. Specks, indeed.
There was a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode like that - doom was coming to Earth from an outer space object; and at the end, when the camera zoomed far out from the doomed planet, a policeman’s hand came up to flick a speck of lint off his uniform.
It’s just about total lunar eclipse right now in Louisiana. Another 3 minutes and it should be absolute total lunar eclipse. 🙂
Lint...LOL...a fitting end; the way things are going.
I saw it start totality, then it clouded up for about 20 minutes.
It’s clear again now. What a beautiful eclipse and so long!
Perfect! :-)
Thanks! Shadow to shadow (I dont use the “p” word) - all by outselves.
Beautiful. Perfect!
Im starting to think that all of these astronomical events are a giant prank that the rest of the population of the earth plays on me. When I go out to look at these things all I ever get are clouds.
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