I'm going to the path of totality

[IGotWorms 3,297]

Ask me anything

[Djgb13 2,338]

So am I. Only 2 hours from where I stay now. So I'll be in Charleston during it

[5-Points 2,715]

Where are you heading? It's only supposed to be about 75% or so where I am. Too long of a drive for the whole ball of wax.

[MTSkiBum 1,591]

Why?

[Djgb13 2,338]

Why?

For me it's close. Plus it's in a city my wife and I love. So we will prob stay the night there, go out to eat at a nice restaurant, and go to a bar or two. Figured if it's this close and going to be in a place we love might as well go

[Sho Nuff 719]

I live in the path.

Son is heading to the scout camp today...will join them early Monday morning for the day.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

82%. Every 30 miles SW is another %. Good with 82.

[IGotWorms 3,297]

Heading to Oregon.

 

Why?

 

Got an old friend that lives there so good reason to visit.

 

Plus it's an experience. How cool? Not sure but I'll find out. Gonna be fun regardless

[IGotWorms 3,297]

By the way I took some edibles and now I'm kinda high

[IGotWorms 3,297]

Whew those things really sneak up on you

 

 

Going a perhaps-less traveled route. The traffic is moving quickly but definitely a sense of purpose. Lots of emergency service but they're all hanging back

 

Kinda wish I was10 years younger and going to the festival

[Alias Detective 1,177]

I live in the path.

Son is heading to the scout camp today...will join them early Monday morning for the day.

Take rubbers

[Alias Detective 1,177]

By the way I took some edibles and now I'm kinda high

Careful. The Cheeba Chews will fock you up!

[kutulu 1,541]

Heading back home to Mass tomorrow. Spent a week in Colorado smoking weed followed by a week in Arizona banging jerrykids wife I am beat, but it was a hell of trip

[SUXBNME 1,318]

Heading to Oregon.

 

Why?

 

Got an old friend that lives there so good reason to visit.

 

Plus it's an experience. How cool? Not sure but I'll find out. Gonna be fun regardless

What part of Oregon?

[Sho Nuff 719]

https://i.imgur.com/wC39dtY.jpg

[Mookz 1,287]

Kind of interesting how the moon is just big enough to completely block the sun, from our perspective. How'd that happen?

[MTSkiBum 1,591]

Kind of interesting how the moon is just big enough to completely block the sun, from our perspective. How'd that happen?

 

Gravity?

[Mookz 1,287]

 

Gravity?

 

Ah, nice, so if we were on other planets with moons we would experience the same thing? It has to work out that way mathematically?

[wiffleball 4,629]

Granted, I live in a f****** Cow Town, but I'm already sick of hearing about this s***. I think there's going to be like 4 hours of programming that day for the f****** eclipse. I hope there's a rainstorm.

[Gepetto 976]

Kind of interesting how the moon is just big enough to completely block the sun, from our perspective. How'd that happen?

 

The moon and the sun look to be about the same size from our view from Earth. Other planets with moon(s) and our Sun, and also other planets with different suns have different sized moon and sun when viewed from those planets. It's most likely coincidence that our sun and moon appear the same size.

[Mookz 1,287]

 

The moon and the sun look to be about the same size from our view from Earth. Other planets with moon(s) and our Sun, and also other planets with different suns have different sized moon and sun when viewed from those planets. It's most likely coincidence that our sun and moon appear the same size.

 

Have they found any other planets where the sun and moon would appear to be the same size?

 

Or is it only the one that happens to contain life that is capable of recognizing it?

[kutulu 1,541]

The diameter of the Sun is about 400 times larger than the Moon's and it is also about 400 times farther away from Earth. These two facts cancel each other out, and the Sun usually winds up looking either the same size or just a little bigger than the moon to us. Also the Earth is flat.

[cyclone24 1,787]

The diameter of the Sun is about 400 times larger than the Moon's and it is also about 400 times farther away from Earth. These two facts cancel each other out, and the Sun usually winds up looking either the same size or just a little bigger than the moon to us. Also the Earth is flat.

Lol....nice.

 

Iowa is 90% coverage...good enough. I barely care.

[jerryskids 5,149]

Heading back home to Mass tomorrow. Spent a week in Colorado smoking weed followed by a week in Arizona banging jerrykids wife I am beat, but it was a hell of trip

 

She's a little dynamo, ain't she?

[fandandy 3,311]

The diameter of the Sun is about 400 times larger than the Moon's and it is also about 400 times farther away from Earth. These two facts cancel each other out, and the Sun usually winds up looking either the same size or just a little bigger than the moon to us. Also the Earth is flat.

Why is it then that fat people still look fat far away?

[kutulu 1,541]

Why is it then that fat people still look fat far away?

gravity

[jerryskids 5,149]

http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/ch/1989/ch890730.gif

[Gepetto 976]

http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/ch/1989/ch890730.gif

[SUXBNME 1,318]

http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/ch/1989/ch890730.gif

I remember that one

[IGotWorms 3,297]

Here we go boys

[KSB2424 3,082]

I'm in Raleigh, NC. Supposedly 96% here.

[Cruzer 1,992]

Enter your zip code to see the time and effect.

 

http://time.com/4882923/total-solar-eclipse-map-places-view/

[MTSkiBum 1,591]

 

Ah, nice, so if we were on other planets with moons we would experience the same thing? It has to work out that way mathematically?

 

 

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a27824/when-is-last-total-solar-eclipse/

 

 

 

A total solar eclipse is possible because the apparent diameter of the moon in the sky, given the right conditions, is larger than the apparent diameter of the sun, and all direct sunlight is blocked at certain points on the globe. Eventually, though—long after you and I have departed—the moon will no longer be large enough in the sky to block the light of the sun entirely.

 

Every year, the moon moves about 3.8 centimeters (1.5 inches) farther away from Earth. In addition, the sun is slowly growing larger as it fuses hydrogen into helium and consumes its nuclear fuel. The moon has been slowly slipping away from Earth ever since it formed billions of years ago, a time when the moon was closer and larger in the sky. Because it is getting farther away and smaller as viewed by us on Earth, and the sun is getting larger, there is an inevitable day when the moon will become too small in the sky to block the whole sun.

 

That day is about 600 million years in the future.

 

An answer to your question.

[Big Guy 1,400]

Kind of interesting how the moon is just big enough to completely block the sun, from our perspective. How'd that happen?

 

It's a GOD thing........but most here don't believe that kind of stuff, so carry on.

[Mookz 1,287]

 

 

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a27824/when-is-last-total-solar-eclipse/

 

 

 

 

An answer to your question.

 

Cool, so eventually one of these times the moon will crash into the sun instead of eclipsing it. I'm going to wait for that one instead.

 

 

It's a GOD thing........but most here don't believe that kind of stuff, so carry on.

 

It sounded like that's what I was getting at, but I really didn't know if it was a unique thing.

 

But yeah, at the very least I guess I can't completely blame the primitives for inventing the idea of God(s) with crap like that happening.

 

If the moon were just some small golf ball passing through the sun, they probably would have been like "Eh, I guess that's kind of interesting", but then they'd get right back to hunting that Stegosaurus.

[jerryskids 5,149]

Focking cloudy in Phoenix. Valley of the Sun my ass!

[TimmySmith 2,782]

A friend in europe already saw it. Overrated.

[Mike Honcho 3,994]

So once in a 99 year event still happens more often than Eagles championships.

[Cruzer 1,992]

I looked at the sun, my eyes.

[giraldi02 470]

So once in a 99 year event still happens more often than Eagles championships.

1960 is 99 years ago?