Total Eclipse coming soon
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woodsy
Blackhawk
How many know about Dickens' book "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court"? Or the movie with Bing Crosby? In it Hank Martin is saved by him predicting an eclipse, proving he was "powerful". Not enough reason to look up at the sky, though.
RC44Mag
Buckeye
Great book and movie. Mark Twain
woodsy
Blackhawk
You're right; Twain wrote the book.
3 solar eclipse myths and misconceptions — and the truth behind them
Ahead of the April 8 eclipse, Prevent Blindness, a Chicago health and safety organization dedicated to protecting sight, is encouraging eye safety by dispelling some common misconceptions.
OK, here's the question - how many of you have never directly looked at the sun in your life? C'mon, be honest. In the course of my life, I have innumerable times. Not for a minute or two, but briefly. Ever wipe the sweat off your forehead and looked up at the sun on a hot day?
44Squatch
Single-Sixer
I'll go with "dark side of the moon"
caryc
Hawkeye
Here's a curious thing. I remember when I was a kid, I could look directly at the sun and then had to look away. But if I look at it today, I have to look away right away. It seemed that as a child I could look at it longer.
I don't spend any time looking at the sun. I more or less am talking like turd above. All I'm saying is that is seems that I have to look away quicker now that I'm older.
gjgalligan
Single-Sixer
The info I read says #12 shade or darker lens if using a welding helmet.
I believe most arc welding uses a #10 shade, the #12 was what I used when air arcing 35 or 40 yrs ago.
I believe most arc welding uses a #10 shade, the #12 was what I used when air arcing 35 or 40 yrs ago.
RC44Mag
Buckeye
Correct but specifically, Eclipse
Good song, brings back memories.
nekvermont
Buckeye
If you wear the "special glasses" is it all right to watch it through binoculars? 
Good ?, dont know the answer, but no need for binocs. Solar glasses protect your eyes as you look to see moon's dark orb progress to obliterate the sun over the course of perhaps an hour, nothing very eventful there. But for the few minutes of totality, no need for solar glasses or binocs, you'll know it because a fast moving shadow engulfs the land. Be on full alert with a your senses to take it in.
Look up and all around it is mystical, you may hear crickets and birds react. You are in sudden twilight and after a few minutes, just as suddenly it ends as the shadow sweeps onward across the landscape.
Look up and all around it is mystical, you may hear crickets and birds react. You are in sudden twilight and after a few minutes, just as suddenly it ends as the shadow sweeps onward across the landscape.
In his travels, Christopher Columbus used an eclipse to gain advantage over natives.
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Just watch it on TV. To quote one of my favorite movies. "TV's real, TV's very real". Of course the character who said those words was the first to get eaten by a comet zombie.
BULL'S-EYE
Buckeye
I'm directly in it's path, and I honestly couldn't care less...
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Dorks Of Nation Helpfully Identify Themselves By Wearing Solar Eclipse Glasses
U.S. — Dorks across the nation have begun helpfully identifying themselves for the general populace by all wearing solar eclipse glasses.
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Not another eclipse of the sun? They happen every year and a half or so. Can't see most of them though. Area of totality is usually out on an ocean or so...
