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Old 08-24-2017, 12:59 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Old 08-24-2017, 02:24 PM   #32 (permalink)
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The red fringing from 7 to 8 o'clock is consistent with Goethe's Color Theory.

Blow that part up and see if you can see Moon mountaintops.
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Old 08-25-2017, 06:12 PM   #33 (permalink)
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They all did. They count on people only reading the headlines.I'm fortunate in being able to go a little deeper. I actually watch 16 contiguous minutes on CNN (via Youtube), of all places.[/URL]
They only count on them reading headlines before clicking or before spreading gossip? I believe my phone mentioned The President. We finally got the Internet installed two days ago and we did not have much data left.

I really should have read a book.

[QUOTE=freebeard;548136]Are you familiar with Timothy Leary's theory of the four terrestrial circuits and four extraterrestrial circuits in the human brain? At K-2 they only have the third circuit turned on. Your supervisor on the other hand has no excuse, but I'm surrounded by people like that too.

I am not familiar with all of those words, so that is something for me to research. My supervisor mentioned a very specific time that she and her son started avoiding current events.

It was during the election.

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Did you enjoy that? I loved the original. "Halloween television special" was almost as much of a spoiler as Wikipedia having the entire plot.
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Old 08-25-2017, 08:41 PM   #34 (permalink)
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I know quite a few people who said they would get a 95% eclipse and were happy to see that rather than travel to see totality. I'd say if you only got 95% of an eclipse, then you missed 95% of the spectacle.

Concerning ignoring current news, I stopped about 8 years ago. No idea what's going on.
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It's like the eye of a hurricane, 'totally' different.

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No. "They count on them only..."

Here's Wikipedia on the 8-circuit brain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-Circ..._Consciousness

I was this way in 1971:
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But the turning of the Mayan calendar has changed everything. The world was under the hegemon of the Moloch-worshipping elites; but then the ancient Egyptian god of chaos, Kek, awoke and spoke through /pol.

It's both awesome and terrifying. It'd be a shame to miss it.
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Now those are some friggin cool photos! I was working at the time of the eclispse and checked it out every few minutes at the peak. I missed the best part though. I think I was in a 99% area. The best I saw is pretty much the photo in the quote. Still pretty cool, but just not the same.
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We were in Hopkinsville, KY. Just got home yesterday. We were about a dozen miles from the point of greatest eclipse, giving us 2:40.1 of totality. It was simply amazing, and nowhere near long enough.

We had reworked an already scheduled weeklong camping trip to make an eclipse trip with camping at the end. Before and after the eclipse we were staying near Mammoth Cave, and had planned to leave there at 4:00 am to get to Hopkinsville around 6:00. But everyone we talked to- in the campground, at the park or in stores, was going to Hopkinsville too. So we left at 3:00.

No worries, we got there at 5:00, well ahead of any crowd. We had bought a ticket for Ruff Park, so we knew where we were going, we knew we'd be able to park, etc. We were the second car through when they opened the gate. We found our spot, set up chairs and a tent, then got my wife's 8" scope set up and worked on getting the camera mounted. Then we suffered through being in the South in August.

The camera was a no-go, don't ask me why. Not having it mounted actually helped- we could check out the whole thing without trying to stand where we could look through the camera, and lots of people in the area came by to see it through the scope. We got good at taking phone pics through the scope, too. She got a really good one during totality, but no picture I've seen comes even close to showing how beautiful it was.

When it was over we set the kids up in the park's pavillion and cooked burgers and dogs on our tabletop grill, finally leaving around 4:00. The Hopkinsville traffic had settled down a lot, but I-65 was brutal. It took us 4 hours to make the 2 hour trip back to Mammoth cave.

Two solid days of driving later, we made it home just in time to repack the van from the "camping in cabins with a huge telescope" load plan to the "camping in our pop-up with two kayaks" load plan. And our regularly scheduled week with friends up at the lake was shortened to 3 days.

Now if the kids had actually let us relax during those 3 days... Hell of a trip.
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Yesterday evening I saw a red ball low in the sky to the West. My first thought was "a full Moon so soon after the eclipse?".

But it was the Sun through wildfire smoke on the horizon.
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I see people saying "Kek," but they must refer to something different.

Someone posted a picture of using binoculars to project the eclipse onto a paper. Would a telescope have worked? What about an overhead projector?
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Yesterday evening I saw a red ball low in the sky to the West. My first thought was "a full Moon so soon after the eclipse?".

But it was the Sun through wildfire smoke on the horizon.
Heh, my wife once commented that "the moon is very bright today". It was 2pm and the sun was struggling to get through the clouds and fog.

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