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Solar Eclipse

Discussion in 'Science & Nature' started by Ken Anderson, Jan 31, 2024.

  1. Mary Stetler

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    I'm OLD, OK?
     
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    Here’s an old couple (the wife is 105) who have traveled around and seen 13 solar eclipses.
     
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    And the world didn't come to an end in any of them?
     
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    State and local police are everywhere, welcoming new visitors with traffic tickets.
     
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    But it did.
    With each eclipse, those who observe them are shuffled off to another dimension at the precise moment that Sol is fully covered.
    That’s why they tell everyone not to look.
     
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    I imagine that the police regard the tickets as “souvenirs”.
     
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    In regular times, we rarely see state cops here - in fact, we seldom see them north of Bangor - and local police don't focus on traffic tickets. But everyone has to clean up when out-of-state people are around.
     
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    The Rapture?
     
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    It seems that there are some unique things about this eclipse, including that it should be much darker than those in recent times. Nothing to indicate the end times per se though.
     
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    Is that possible? Does the season within which a solar eclipse occurs determine how dark it gets (due to the distance between the sun and the Earth)? The Earth's orbit around the sun is elliptical, changing the distance between the two. The moon's orbit around the Earth is nearly circular.

    I would think that "full [100%] eclipse" means "full [100%] eclipse."
     
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    But it crosses all those biblically named cities like Nineveh!:rolleyes:
     
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    He's gonna have a massive French Toast party when nothing bad happens.
     
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