Solar Eclipse

[Strathos]

I noticed there are no threads on the front page of this forum about it, so why not make one?

Who is going to be in a position to see it?

Also, how do the flat earthers explain it?

 

[RGW00]

I noticed there are no threads on the front page of this forum about it, so why not make one?

Who is going to be in a position to see it?

Also, how do the flat earthers explain it?

I honestly don't see the big deal about it. Yeah, it's a once in a lifetime thing but it's something that can potentially make you blind. Think I'll pass.

 

[Poppyseed78]

I think it's a cool phenomenon, but I'm not hugely enthusiastic about it. My area will only see an 80% eclipse, and I have no intention of traveling to the path of totality.

 

[Dave G.]

In 1979 I watched the peak time of that one with a welders helmet on. This one I'll take in the experience of the darker than normal time period but not look up at it. The peak here is around 2:30 or so in the afternoon.

 

[Non sequitur]

I noticed there are no threads on the front page of this forum about it, so why not make one?

Who is going to be in a position to see it?

Also, how do the flat earthers explain it?

Me, kinda. 85%-ish.

Now the flat-earthers input would be interesting.

 

[Rubiks]

Can I look at the eclipse safely for a fraction of a second?

 

[Paulos23]

Can I look at the eclipse safely for a fraction of a second?

At totality you can. But otherwise, no. The best way to look at it is to make a pinhole camera.

 

[Hank77]

I honestly don't see the big deal about it. Yeah, it's a once in a lifetime thing but it's something that can potentially make you blind. Think I'll pass.

We didn't get glasses so we are making solar viewers with boxes.

 

[archer75]

Ceetain strengths of welder's glass also work

 

[tulc]

seen this?
How do Flat Earth truthers explain the eclipse? These weird-as-hell videos explain it.
they have several vids posted by flat Earthers in the article as well as people who actually know what they're talking about.
tulc(thinks this is a fun thread)

 

[Non sequitur]

seen this?
How do Flat Earth truthers explain the eclipse? These weird-as-hell videos explain it.
they have several vids posted by flat Earthers in the article as well as people who actually know what they're talking about.
tulc(thinks this is a fun thread)

I followed that down the rabbit hole of comments on YouTube and Flat Earth forums.

Reads like an Anti-Evolution thread.

 

[lesliedellow]

I noticed there are no threads on the front page of this forum about it, so why not make one?

Who is going to be in a position to see it?

Also, how do the flat earthers explain it?

I will(!) be 139 when the next total eclipse in Britain comes around. Although we will have a very large partial eclipse rather sooner than that, in 2026.

 

[RGW00]

We didn't get glasses so we are making solar viewers with boxes.

I actually saw that picture on twitter, I was dying!

 

[Tinker Grey]

I will(!) be 139 when the next total eclipse in Britain comes around. Although we will have a very large partial eclipse rather sooner than that, in 2026.

Though it'll be 80% here in TX, in 2024 we get totality. So no rushing about for me.

 

[Ygrene Imref]

I honestly don't see the big deal about it. Yeah, it's a once in a lifetime thing but it's something that can potentially make you blind. Think I'll pass.

Elipses have a deep occult and (in general) spiritul meaning around the world.

When one happens, it IS a big deal, and not because of its alleged astronomical rarity. It is usually a harbinger of something to come.

 

[lesliedellow]

Though it'll be 80% here in TX, in 2024 we get totality. So no rushing about for me.

80% is nuffin. We get 96% in 2026.

 

[Tinker Grey]

80% is nuffin. We get 96% in 2026.

What I meant was, we get 80% NOW, and 100% in 2024

 

[Ygrene Imref]

I noticed there are no threads on the front page of this forum about it, so why not make one?

Who is going to be in a position to see it?

Also, how do the flat earthers explain it?

I think a solar eclipse harbinger of something that affects the world, but it is interesting that it is going over seven cities named Salem, and essentially over the diagonal of the US (a 3000 mile trip over the US alone). When considering what the world Salem means, and what it is - it is interesting indeed.

But, I am not going to watch it. In fact, I am going to stay away from people tomorrow as best as I can.

If I was a flat earther that believed the earth/terra firma was a 2-manifold covered by a hemispherical dome, then I would say eclipses still come from a spheroid geometry, and their projection therefore will be the same as we see today (assuming the earth is a ball, not a manifold.) Both the manifold (flat) and the hemispherical dome (also technically flat with a perceived 3-dimensional mapping of space) are the same geometry.

 

[lesliedellow]

What I meant was, we get 80% NOW, and 100% in 2024

I think it was something like 87% we had in 2015, and although it briefly looked like it might do about half an hour before sunset, it was still a bit of a damp squib.

 

[Hank77]

What I meant was, we get 80% NOW, and 100% in 2024

There is a part of Missouri that will get both at 100%.