Combined General and Maryland “Freak State” PING! with a DANG! thrown in for good measure.
Headed out for just south of Baker OR in 3 hours. Traffic on Oregon highways — with the exception of around Madras where there is a freak festival going on — has been LIGHTER than normal all weekend.
I prefer the eclipses come to me. I think I’ll sleep in a little, then step outside sometime after a late breakfast. Let no cloud pass before the sun at the appointed time.
I’m sitting in Harrah’s Cherokee in Cherokee, North Carolina. Looks like a slight chance of clouds, 20%, but mostly sunny. All manner of solar eclipse activities planned at the Riverwalk on the casino resort property. Haven’t been up here in years, this place has certainly grown into an elaborate and very nice place. I’m impressed, one of the largest hotels in the state. I’m looking forward to it, will try to post photos but it may be this evening, we’re likely headed east toward home not long after totality in order to hopefully miss most of the traffic.
Laugh all you want but this video scares the crap out of me at about 19:30 because I can see the invisible non-illuminated moon or body pass behind the moon... and it freaks me out to think that state-run, left-wing, Islam-loving, climate-change-pushing NASA might know the truth and is lying to us...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muOn1pRxO50
I got to that video because I have no facts to disprove this video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgPzqjm5Wog
This guy is is correct: North America is spins 27 times the rate of the shadow of the moon;
and thus it makes no sense that the shadow of the moon is moving its way across North America, or in that direction, AT ALL.
Plus it looks like all the scientific models are turning the globe in the wrong direction for the eclipse?
Huh?
Someone got some math to disprove this video even when they have the earth spinning in the proper direction?
The first video really freaks me out because the second video pointed out all the mathematical mistakes with eclipses.
Laugh all you want, but I want real math and not Islam-loving NASA “facts” and no, I have not seen part two or three of the Potter’s Clay’s videos, only part 1. Too freaked out by the invisible moon idea at moment, and by these quotes from the ancient Greeks and others discussed these non-illuminated heavenly bodies...
Math, please!
Dang what time is this happening Central Time, South Texas?????
I’ll be leaving in about 20 minutes for Glenrock, WY with my Sons.
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We’re supposed to be in the “totality path”, or at the edge of it in Lenoir City, TN. Right now it’s quite cloudy.
In the first eclipse of human civilization, everybody looked up at the sun because they did not know better. They all went blind.
I’ve been trying to find out if it’s possible to view the eclipse with your cell phone camera in selfie mode over your shoulder? Will it destroy your camera?
I fully expect someone in the media to associate the eclipse with global warming.
Guess I’m just an old fogey, but I don’t get all the excitement.
What is the over/under for the number of people in the US who will report eye damage after the eclipse has passed?
Solar Eclipse iPhone Photography: Warnings and Tips
https://www.idropnews.com/news/solar-eclipse-iphone-photography-warnings-tips/47339/
NASA recommends that you use a solar filter when attempting to capture the eclipse with a smartphone camera. While Apple has said that its iPhone doesn’t need a filter to view the eclipse, it might be best not to risk your beloved smartphone’s photography equipment. This is especially true for prolonged shots or recording video.
Socked in fog this morning which of course means hazy, crummy day we won’t even be able to see the planes flying over, only hear them.
In SoCal we won’t see much of the eclipse anyway. Can’t get terribly excited.
GReat ambience with smoke in the air as well...