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Thats kinda cool, too bad I won't be able to see it.

I remember the frenzy a couple of years back when the total eclipse was gonna hit England. And in usualy British fashion it was too cloudy to see it well.

And there was a big fuss about people buying stupid glasses to look at as to not damage their eyes. I only saw a partial eclipse as it only was a total eclipse for cornwall or something.

And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

I didn't even have to move my fingers and the sock wrote for me.

Possessed muppets rule.

The last eclipse I saw was due to my mother-in-law bending over to pick up a candy-bar. That moon cast a shadow so big, the sun was blocked out over all the planets.






The debil made me type it.

I can remember two solar eclipses. One was in 1st or 2nd grade and we were forbidden to go near any windows, 'lest the glaring sun rays destroy us. It was a great moment for the education of astromony.

The second time was on a summer vacation. Not being content with a retarded pin-hole box or whatever, I put on five pairs of sunglasses and looked directly at that sucker. Which may have validated the teachers' actions the first time around.

Feed me!
Does it have to be human?
Feed me!
Does it have to be mine?
Feeeed me!
How am I supposed to get it?
Feed me, Seymour / Feed me all night long - That's right, boy! - Go to it, Feed me Seymour / Feed me all night long / Cause if you feed me, Seymour / I can grow up big and strong.

As I recall, the tiny openings between leaves in trees will act like tiny pinhole cameras and cast eclipse shaped shadows on the ground. Telescopes with removable eyepieces can cast the sunlight onto a surface and allow many people to see at once. With the right one you should be able to see sunspots (obviously in the portions of the sun not being eclipsed).

Lunar eclipses are way more common as the Earth, being larger then the Moon, casts a bigger shadow.

Eclipses don't occur every month because the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun is not the same as the plane of the Moon's orbit around the Earth.

The ancient Greek's used the radius of the shadow cast by the Earth on to the Moon to estimate the ratio of the radius of the Moon to the Earth (about 1 to 3), and used this to estimate the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=ancienthistory&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.phys.virginia.edu%2Fclasses%2F109N%2Flectures%2Fgkastr1.html

In 1919, a solar eclipse allowed scientists to confirm that light bends when passing a massive object (in this case, the sun) (this is a prediction of general relativity).

http://www.simonsingh.com/1919_Eclipse.html

That's so weird, I'm reading Nightfall right now.

I remember the last time there was a total eclipse the prime viewing area was on the Big Island in Kona. We drove all the way over to see it and it was too overcast to even see the sky. Afterwards they were selling "canned dark", which they claimed to have canned only during the time of the eclipse. lol

I looked at one for a few seconds without any eye protection.

Strangley it didn't seem as bright as looking directly as a non-eclipsed sun.

I think the big worry is the lenght that people would stare at it, were their eyes not protected.

Thats just.... Sad.

Caught that sarcasm, didja?