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23 Aug 2017, 2:32 am

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I'm so envious of all you guys in the States. Nothing this spectacular is ever visible in the UK because we nearly always have too much cloud-cover. This place sucks monkey's balls.

salem Oregon, a node along the path of the last American solar eclipse, was totally rained out, which disappointed a LOT of people there that year who had travelled a long ways to see the eclipse there.

OMG rain? We don't live far from there and we had sunlight and clear skies. We drove 45 minutes from our home to see it.

this was in 1979, February, normally a rainy time there. they made up for it this year, despite the mostly cloudy weather prediction they had brilliant cloud-free sunshine this time. that angered me in that I drove all that @#$%ing way to Madras and put up with all that crowding when I coulda just went to Lincoln [also clear] or Salem.

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23 Aug 2017, 2:38 am

am sort of envious of my girlfriend in that her first day of her highschool senior year also happened to include a solar eclipse.

it has to be a good omen. i wish my senior year started with an eclipse. maybe it would have gone a bit better.
oh well. my fifth semester of college tarted with an eclipse, but is that rally as nice?

totality at 10:18 am, about 66%. took a break from intro to ceramics to go catch it. clouds were forgiving, the sun's shape was well defined but cover was thick enough that i could look at it eyes bare. (no damage)

seems like half the school was outside looking at it. there were telescopes.

"cool."

nonchalantly snapped a photo of it and walked somewhere else.

i'll most likely never see one again.

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23 Aug 2017, 10:45 am

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I read on Facebook that Donald Trump look up at the sun.

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23 Aug 2017, 11:14 am

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I read on Facebook that Donald Trump look up at the sun.

They're claiming those glances constitute staring? This is just comes off as the usual utter desperation to come up with stuff that's nonsense.

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24 Aug 2017, 1:47 am

EzraS wrote:

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I read on Facebook that Donald Trump look up at the sun.

They're claiming those glances constitute staring? This is just comes off as the usual utter desperation to come up with stuff that's nonsense.

medically speaking, your eyes consider anything longer than a fleeting glance at the sun, as a stare. he did more than fleetingly glance.

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24 Aug 2017, 3:18 pm

Were there loads of dead animals everywhere? Apparantly all the birds fall out of the sky or something, thinking its night. We didn't get to see it here. I'll probably not see one in my lifetime.

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24 Aug 2017, 8:46 pm

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Were there loads of dead animals everywhere? Apparantly all the birds fall out of the sky or something, thinking its night. We didn't get to see it here. I'll probably not see one in my lifetime.

there will be 3 solar eclipses [2 annular and one total] in the next decade in your part of the world.

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24 Aug 2017, 9:16 pm

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Were there loads of dead animals everywhere? Apparantly all the birds fall out of the sky or something, thinking its night. We didn't get to see it here. I'll probably not see one in my lifetime.

Huh?

No. No "dead animals everywhere" were reported that I know of. Nor do I know why that would be.

You sometimes hear crickets start chirping in a total eclipse because the crickets think its night. That's about it.

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24 Aug 2017, 10:38 pm

I'm pretty sure I saw a vampire step outside and go back in quickly.

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29 Aug 2017, 11:22 am

auntblabby wrote:

Braaaaaaaaains....

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30 Aug 2017, 1:53 am

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Braaaaaaaaains....

I've tasted brains, they're blech! :eew:

i'd rather eat dirt.

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30 Aug 2017, 11:50 am

auntblabby wrote:

EzraS wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

Kitty4670 wrote:

I read on Facebook that Donald Trump look up at the sun.

They're claiming those glances constitute staring? This is just comes off as the usual utter desperation to come up with stuff that's nonsense.

medically speaking, your eyes consider anything longer than a fleeting glance at the sun, as a stare. he did more than fleetingly glance.

I just found out that Trump took the precaution of applying sunscreen to his eyes, so he was protected after all.

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30 Aug 2017, 11:53 am

Sunscreen doesn't protect you if you look directly at an eclipsed sun.

It only protects against ultraviolet rays.

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31 Aug 2017, 1:59 am

there are people who went to ERs due to eye damage after they applied sunscreen to their eyes and stared.

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31 Aug 2017, 2:34 am

Indeed. And I made a joke at their experience.

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