I knew that
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 19:10 (three months ago) link
Picturing a poster for this eclipse like in that one thread I cannot recall the name of
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:07 (three months ago) link
Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc, jamming with the eclipse
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:21 (three months ago) link
Hahaha!
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:24 (three months ago) link
I meant the busy film one of course
post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:28 (three months ago) link
This thing is shaping up to be Woodstock '99 on steroids
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:29 (three months ago) link
There was a scientist nerding out about it on NPR who was so excited. It was kind of cute and kind of crazy. He described it as one of the most life-changing events anyone could experience, and the closest we can come to space travel on Earth, or something like that. I suppose maybe, if it makes you pursue a career in astrophysics.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:40 (three months ago) link
I totally forgot that the eclipse in 2017 was total soβ¦
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:43 (three months ago) link
I have an ex in Little Rock and she reports that people are panic buying survival supplies like it's Y2K
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:54 (three months ago) link
Ha they definitely think Jesus is coming
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 23:34 (three months ago) link
This state is expecting up to a million visitors.
We only have three million residents already.
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 00:56 (three months ago) link
And they're all going to Russellville.
I went a 30 miles out of town to see totality get blocked by clouds in 2017, wonβt be clogging any rural roads this time
― circles, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:27 (three months ago) link
I drove out to rural Nebraska and camped on a rural cattle ranch for the 2017 eclipse. Minimal traffic. Someone local made BBQ and overall I had a really great time.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 05:35 (three months ago) link
not looking good for tx
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/03/29/cloud-cover-eclipse-forecast-maps-cities/
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 5 April 2024 16:53 (two months ago) link
My boss is taking his family to Dallas
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 April 2024 18:07 (two months ago) link
itll be pretty cloudy that day but tbh i'm less interested in seeing the eclipse itself than i am in just seeing day turn to night and back again.
There was a total eclipse here in Portland back in February 1979. Of course it was a day of thick clouds. I decided to go for a walk down toward the Willamette river as totality approached, so as to have a bit more sky overhead. Given the weather I didn't expect much.
I remember it as gradually growing dim, then dimmer, but the moment of totality was still breathtaking, like when a fast moving cloud shadow passes over you in summer, but magnified by many orders of magnitude. Very memorable despite the clouds!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 5 April 2024 18:15 (two months ago) link
good luck everyone
― StanM, Monday, 8 April 2024 12:26 (two months ago) link
Excited for this.
― jmm, Monday, 8 April 2024 12:29 (two months ago) link
I woke from a brief bad dream about some kind of mass shooting during the eclipse. Never have these, and hoping/assuming itβs not prophetic.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 8 April 2024 12:35 (two months ago) link
I have wondered what you could get away with in two and a half minutes while everyone's outside.
― pplains, Monday, 8 April 2024 13:40 (two months ago) link
The library branches were giving away free glasses but ran out, apparently. People gathering at my house for the viewing, guess I better make a pinhole box viewer!
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 8 April 2024 14:02 (two months ago) link
Visiting relatives in Ohio to see it. Experienced one in Nashville some years back and despite it being cloudy, it was just great as others said to experience the day to night to day shift and hear the confused crickets .
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 April 2024 14:03 (two months ago) link
I was around for the one in NYC in 2017 and it was pretty cool! People were out walking around on the street. I have some good pics of my pinhole viewer and also how weird shadows looked on the ground. I don't think it got fully dark for that one though.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 8 April 2024 14:10 (two months ago) link
I wish I planned better - I have a friend who's out by Dallas now and I could've gone to see his family (and driven out with them to see the eclipse in the path of totality). Hell, I could've just gone up to Rochester or Buffalo. Kind of kicking myself because any of those would've been a much easier trip to make than whatever I'd need to do to a catch the next 40+ years of total solar eclipses.
― birdistheword, Monday, 8 April 2024 16:29 (two months ago) link
rochester and buffalo are under nearly 100% cloud coverage iiuc. dallas is not great either.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 8 April 2024 16:44 (two months ago) link
"the path of totality" is such a bitchin' parody of new age twaddle
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 April 2024 16:47 (two months ago) link
montreal's all totalitying so everyone's pretty psyched, exchanging various eclipse plans, panic over glasses etc. I'm going to keep it simple and just take it in with a bunch of 8-year-olds, why not?
― sean gramophone, Monday, 8 April 2024 16:56 (two months ago) link
Sky is mostly clear right now, around 3 I'm going to take a short walk to a nearby park with my kids and we will hopefully still have a clear sky then. I should have 1 minute 4 seconds of totality, looking forward to it.
― silverfish, Monday, 8 April 2024 17:01 (two months ago) link
NASA broadcast here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MJY_ptQW1o
without commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5j95RUSLd8
― Roz, Monday, 8 April 2024 17:16 (two months ago) link
I'm using a janky pinhole camera made from a Ritz crackers box.. pretty underwhelming here in California
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 8 April 2024 17:43 (two months ago) link
Took me a second to realize that ambient new age jam was coming from the NASA video in the background.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 April 2024 17:52 (two months ago) link
It started here, btw.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 April 2024 17:57 (two months ago) link
actually the pasta colander works better than the cracker box camera
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:00 (two months ago) link
I got my glasses. I guess I have to remember to go outside and look.
― President Keyes, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:13 (two months ago) link
For a minute I thought the NASA cam was playing Tangerine Dream's "Risky Business" score.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:29 (two months ago) link
I was around for the one in NYC in 2017 and it was pretty cool!
I went out of my office and walked around during that one. I didn't have proper gear so I just tried to glance at it quickly. It still caused a twinge of pain in my eyes, so probably shouldn't have done that. A lot of people were holding up their phone cameras and watching it on the phone screen. Not sure if that's good for the phone but I guess it's safe for your eyes.
― o. nate, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:45 (two months ago) link
Atlas Obscura is hosting a big 3 day festival in Arkansas, I'll bet they're all tripping balls right now
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:48 (two months ago) link
looking pretty neat up there now
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:51 (two months ago) link
so it's not the end of the world after all? god dammit.
― StanM, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:51 (two months ago) link
to tell the truth, I was just thinking that standing outside with all the neighbors, everybody staring into the sky, is exactly how I imagine our final moments to be before the asteroid hits.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:52 (two months ago) link
definitely hard to capture, I bet we will get much more impressive images later this summer when the trillions of cicadas hatch.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:53 (two months ago) link
Yep the biblical plagues are piling up.
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 8 April 2024 19:13 (two months ago) link
Apparently the street lights popped on downtown.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 April 2024 19:14 (two months ago) link
It was pretty cool here in Wisconsin. Beautiful clear day, it felt like I was wearing sunglasses and when I actually looked at it through the proper glasses it was pretty crazy. 10/10 natural phenomenon, especially because I didn't think we'd get much of an effect here.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 8 April 2024 19:20 (two months ago) link
This was pretty cool! We had glasses and special screens for our phone cameras. We just went outside our house, expecting tons of people would be out in the street - but there was no one. Iβve never seen any kind of eclipse so this was a bucket list event for me.
― just1n3, Monday, 8 April 2024 19:21 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pJP9IQc.png
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 April 2024 19:22 (two months ago) link
Glad to have had a clear view of it today, was pretty cool.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 April 2024 19:23 (two months ago) link
On an overcast day, it didn't look so different from an imminent rain or snow storm.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 8 April 2024 19:35 (two months ago) link