I’m more worried about that’s going on in that box in south Georgia.
Still wondering why people from Alaska didn't post about the eclipse
Submitted 7 months ago by Deykun@kbin.social to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Dultas@lemmy.world 7 months ago
mars296@kbin.social 7 months ago
Nothing good that's for sure. But I wonder what this map is actually from.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Margorie is yelling at the sun without glasses?
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’s where they keep the goobers and peaches.
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 7 months ago
The eclipse but white
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Man, it was a little disappointing.
Mind you, here in the southern Appalachians, I didn’t expect anything highly dramatic, but I figured it might get dim outside. Nope, without the glasses and looking directly, I wouldn’t have known it was happening.
Steve@startrek.website 7 months ago
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Screw the Golden record, let’s send a complete archive of XKCD comics on the next interstellar mission.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Total vs partial solar eclipses are a literally night & day difference. The pictures you see online do not do it justice
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I took a picture of the parking lot I was in and it looked normal, but actually looking at it felt like the sun was broken.
People don’t talk about what the world looks like in the moments before total eclipse. Everything looks flat and desaturated. Kinda looks like a photo from the 90s but in HD.
Skanky@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, i hate to say it, but unless you’re in the path of totality, it’s pretty lame. Sure, the light gets weird, and you can make neat little crescents with shadows, but that’s about it
Being in totality is without a doubt, one of the most awe-inspiring things you could ever witness
Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Had a few people tell me how they are in the 90% path and didn’t see a reason for seeing totality.
I tried explaining it to them in terms of sex: “I was 95% close to getting laid! Sure, that was probably fun, but you should really see totality.” Realized they just didn’t think it was worth it as an experience. Their loss.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Had totality for 1 min 22 seconds. The entire time I was slack-jawed or going “Holy shit!” My kids were going bananas lol
wetnoodle@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
See, that is cool. Here, it was just sunny.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 7 months ago
I… Disagree. But I’m a space nerd anyways so the thought of 2 celestial bodies as far away as they are from each other to be such a perfect ratio that they basically perfectly overlap, to be just the neatest little cosmic joke on our improbable planet. It’s a fun quirk and being at all able to see it is neat.
Also, I’m sorry but I was in northern Appalachian where for like half an hour it got slowly darker by just a little bit at a time and by the time it got mostly covered a perfect cloud coverage hit to make it viewable from the naked eye behind the clouds as a crescent for the next hour and it was very cool to see that sliver of crescent sun just hanging up there.
It was neat for not being totality.
Galapagon@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Totality or bust. See you in South America or Spain!
lemming@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
What percentage was the eclipse? It probably got dim, but human eyes are very good at filtering out wide range of intensity changes to handle both full sun and cloudy sky. You really only notice an eclipse maybe at 80-90 %. But it isn’t that special even at 99 %. On the other hand, total eclipse is absolutely incredible.
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
at 99% I think you can see the clouds several km away turn dark from the shadow of the moon, might get a nice view of watching the shadow move along.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I think it was 75% here? I’d have to look it up, but that’s about what it looked like.
I tried taking a few pics, but I had taken the wrong bag, so that was a bust. My phone actually took the best shot, and it was washed out
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It’s crazy how bright the sun is. At 98% it got to something close to golden hour.
bluewing@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Don’t feel bad. I 3D printed the NASA approved pinhole camera to see an 80% eclipse I never got to see.
According to NOAA the chance of overcast has historically been 53% for the the 8th of April for where I live. I was on the the wrong side of the 53% chance.
At my age, in 20 years I probably will be dead according to statistics.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Half the state is crazy for Pigmy Hippo day, the other half go NUTS for Rex Manning day. They’ve got no time for whatever the cancer orb and wolf trigger are up to.
DrownedRats@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wolf trigger is the name of my new metal band
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
I hope Cancer Orb is just a screamo cover of The Beatles Waiting for the Sun
idunnololz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No lie but I do love Pigmy Hippos though.
millie@beehaw.org 7 months ago
We mustn’t dwell. No, not today! Not on Rex Manning day!
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Because those brave patriots are keeping an eye on Russia.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 7 months ago
To busy fighting off wolves and rabid prospectors.
snooggums@midwest.social 7 months ago
Kudos to including territory number 6!
Zehzin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The colors, Mason. What do they mean?
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Glad to see Alaska got it too!
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’ll see this is also a perfect example of a map without New Zealand.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Why would imaginary countries be on this map?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s got Missouri on there, so why not invent a country too?
someguy3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Canada and Mexico didn’t even make it.
affiliate@lemmy.world 7 months ago
further evidence in favor of the theory that canada and mexico are new zealand territories