https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/x-marks-the-shot-friday-april-5-2024
This morning I gave in to the eclipse hype — everyone else is talking about it. I put it all under a skeptical microscope, but at least one conspiracy theory remained not easily explained. Let’s begin with Forbes’ spooky story yesterday, headlined “Here’s Why The Total Solar Eclipse Has Prompted States Of Emergency In Parts Of U.S.” What on Earth is an eclipse emergency? And why now? After all, we just had a similar eclipse only seven years ago without any declarations of emergency? Do they know something?
As you are probably well aware by now, on Monday the Moon will blot out the Sun, dramatically dragging its shadow across the entire United States. The undocumented eclipse will jump Texas’s border around 1pm Eastern time. Around 3:30pm, like a supersized Chinese spy balloon, it will float out of Maine’s east coast.
2024’s Great American Eclipse is pretty much the same as 2017’s great eclipse, except it’s going the other way this time. Criss, cross.
By all accounts, experiencing the day-to-night phenomena during a total eclipse makes for unforgettable memories. In 2017, Michelle and the kids drove up to North Carolina for the event, and she often describes it with a sense of wonder and amazement. (I was stuck home litigating a jury trial that week).
Eclipses are not particularly rare. Around a half dozen times every year, somewhere or other, fully or partially, the Moon eclipses the Sun.
That said, it is unusual to have two total eclipses within a few years of each other crossing the United States in an “X” pattern. The last time it happened — possibly the only other time — it was two eclipses five years apart, the first flying over in June 1806, and the second passing overhead in September 1811. They intersected near Cleveland.
Then, three months after the second eclipse closed the “X” in December 1811, came another unique historical event: a five-month series of two thousand of the most devastating earthquakes in U.S. history. It really shook things up.
According to the City of New Madrid, Missouri website, in recorded history of the entire world, no other earthquakes have lasted so long or produced so much evidence of damage as did the New Madrid earthquakes. They occurred along something called the New Madrid seismic faultline — hence the city’s interest — which happens to be located right around where the 2017/2024 eclipses will intersect this coming Monday. That’s the first coincidence connecting the two pairs of “X” eclipses.
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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/x-marks-the-shot-friday-april-5-2024
This morning I gave in to the eclipse hype — everyone else is talking about it. I put it all under a skeptical microscope, but at least one conspiracy theory remained not easily explained. Let’s begin with Forbes’ spooky story yesterday, headlined “Here’s Why The Total Solar Eclipse Has Prompted States Of Emergency In Parts Of U.S.” What on Earth is an eclipse emergency? And why now? After all, we just had a similar eclipse only seven years ago without any declarations of emergency? Do they know something?
As you are probably well aware by now, on Monday the Moon will blot out the Sun, dramatically dragging its shadow across the entire United States. The undocumented eclipse will jump Texas’s border around 1pm Eastern time. Around 3:30pm, like a supersized Chinese spy balloon, it will float out of Maine’s east coast.
2024’s Great American Eclipse is pretty much the same as 2017’s great eclipse, except it’s going the other way this time. Criss, cross.
By all accounts, experiencing the day-to-night phenomena during a total eclipse makes for unforgettable memories. In 2017, Michelle and the kids drove up to North Carolina for the event, and she often describes it with a sense of wonder and amazement. (I was stuck home litigating a jury trial that week).
Eclipses are not particularly rare. Around a half dozen times every year, somewhere or other, fully or partially, the Moon eclipses the Sun.
That said, it is unusual to have two total eclipses within a few years of each other crossing the United States in an “X” pattern. The last time it happened — possibly the only other time — it was two eclipses five years apart, the first flying over in June 1806, and the second passing overhead in September 1811. They intersected near Cleveland.
Then, three months after the second eclipse closed the “X” in December 1811, came another unique historical event: a five-month series of two thousand of the most devastating earthquakes in U.S. history. It really shook things up.
According to the City of New Madrid, Missouri website, in recorded history of the entire world, no other earthquakes have lasted so long or produced so much evidence of damage as did the New Madrid earthquakes. They occurred along something called the New Madrid seismic faultline — hence the city’s interest — which happens to be located right around where the 2017/2024 eclipses will intersect this coming Monday. That’s the first coincidence connecting the two pairs of “X” eclipses.
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4.5 shake in NJ
Dutchsinse live now.
Even he is astounded at the heightened activity.
Forecasts a 4.5 in the Carolinas within the next week.
Interesting
I read C&C this morning. Very interesting about the eclipse, earthquakes, Pfizer. Who knows!
Mother of Dragons mentioned...
☕️ X MARKS THE SHOT ☙ Friday, April 5, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
In which we tumble down the Great American Eclipse rabbit hole, finding at least one inexplicable element; while gracefully sidestepping the Avian Flu Pandemic rabbit hole.
“Even more eerily, the 1811 earthquakes and the 1811 eclipse were preceded by the appearance of a great comet visible around the world. And what do you know? The 2024 eclipse is also preceded by the appearance of a great comet visible around the world — a great comet the media first creepily called the Devil’s Comet but now ominously calls the Mother of Dragons Comet. It’s green. So that’s another connection between the 1811 and 2024 eclipses.”
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/x-marks-the-shot-friday-april-5-2024