Total Solar Eclipse 2017

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I decided on Friday evening to drive to Oregon to see totality. I figure since my next chance to see one here in the US won't be until 2024--and will be a much greater distance to travel, with Dallas as the easiest big city for me to get to--I might as well do it.

I already had glasses, so all I had to do was pack a cooler full of energy drinks and drive drive drive drive drive.

I'm spending tonight in my car; I'm at a rest area near Salem with a bunch of other eclipse-chasers, and I'll probably seek a better viewing spot in the morning. Everybody's been cool so far, and I'm glad I came, but I am fucking wipe-the-floor exhausted, and I'll be lucky to get any sleep at all, given the roar and rumble of traffic on I-5 and all of the fucking CRICKETS. Jesus fuck, who knew there were so many crickets in this world?! [/city person]
 
What the fuck even is this Google.

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Dink Smallwood said:
I probably won't see shit.
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I'm in like, the 40% eclipse region. So I don't know how severe it'll even be.

ICametoLurk said:
It's a covert sign from the Illuminati that Aliens did it.

OPEN YOUR EYES SHEEPLE!
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Isn't it obvious? They're clearly here for the intergalactic volleyball tournament. I'd say ride it out until they get bored and eclipse some other planet's moon.
 
Why do they need specialized glasses for this? Can't they just briefly look towards the sun, then away, then back again at their leisure?
 
Burgers in the ass said:
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2017/...-total-eclipse-is-not-visible-from-australia/
God damnit
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It definitely sucks. I went to Cairns for the 2012 eclipse. I was lucky, because I was so excited I couldn't sleep the night before and slept in. I'd planed to drive to Kuranda and watch it on the side of the mountain. I'd calculated an extra four hours on top of travel time, so when I woke up my heart sank so hard and fast it punched through the mattress. For reasons I can't explain I decided to drive inland instead. Had my glasses, and basically just drove until I found a place where a heap of people had already set up a ton of digital cameras and telescopes that would have cost a quarter of my yearly wage. So I was miserable because I thought I'd fucked up so badly. Seeing a total eclipse was something I'd desperately wanted to do since I was in single figures. As it turned out, it was an absolutely perfect view, I saw the whole thing beginning to end. Later when I got back to my bed and breakfast I turned on the television to discover that Kuranda had effectively been shut down anyway, and that it wouldn't have helped me any if it had because from there onto the coast the clouds blocked the whole thing. So yeah. Best sleep in I've ever had.

I thought that seeing totality would be indescribably beautiful and I was right. Up until the end of the totality came something so, so beautiful that I will never, ever forget it. At the end of totality, when the moon began to spit out the sun, there was something I'd seen on television that I had no idea would make me sob like a little bitch with a skinned knee: the diamond ring, more properly called Baily's Beads. It was so fucking gorgeous, it only lasted a second, and all of us there gasped when it hit us. A single beam of pure white light, so completely perfect. I felt like I'd just been shot with a laser and that it'd cut me in half. I had never, ever conceived of something so perfect in my entire black, twisted, misanthropic life. I still get a little teary just remembering it.

I envy you Kiwis who will see it. Find the best viewing position you can, bring a spare pair of glasses just in case you lose the first. Don't miss it. Pick your position, defend it with tooth and claw if you have to, and wait until the moon eats the sun, and spits it back out again. Totality has an extraordinary type of light, so look away from time to time, but remember: the diamond ring is something to remember for the rest of your life.
 
Apparently the partial eclipse has just started here, but I don't have the glasses. Kinda am curious as to how dark it might get, though, the sun's supposed to have a crescent shape at most.
 
Work got pizzas so people wouldn't go outside and melt or whatever the fuck is supposed to happen that normies are panicking about even being outside.
Sounds like it's raining heavily so I guess it really doesn't matter.
 
XYZpdq said:
Work got pizzas so people wouldn't go outside and melt or whatever the fuck is supposed to happen that normies are panicking about even being outside.
Sounds like it's raining heavily so I guess it really doesn't matter.
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I feel that, it's full on thunder storms here so I'm hoping it clears up a bit before we hit peak darkness.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Apparently the partial eclipse has just started here, but I don't have the glasses. Kinda am curious as to how dark it might get, though, the sun's supposed to have a crescent shape at most.
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Look at the shadows. It's really cool. It'll do something like this:

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It's supposed to peak in about two hours here. One of my coworkers brought in three sets of glasses so everyone can watch. I'm psyched as hell, I haven't experienced an eclipse before today.
 
escapegoat said:
Look at the shadows. It's really cool. It'll do something like this:

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Ooooh and was this just through the trees?

Room's starting to look like a cloudy day, I usually still have a stream of sunlight at this time.
 
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