I'm sure I'll be able to watch on Youtube. Hopefully some asshat will freak out like this guy.
Reporter: What keeps you awake at night?
General James "Mad Dog" Mattis: Nothing, I keep other people awake at night.
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Quote: (07-21-2017 08:03 PM)PapayaTapper Wrote:
Quote: (07-21-2017 06:29 PM)Bluto Wrote:
I am planning on making it a day trip, as I am only a few hours away from it.
Moon 258ooo mi away
Sun 93.ooo,ooo mi away
Thats some day trip
Quote: (08-21-2017 09:43 AM)Vill@in Wrote:
Is it beta to wear the eclipse glasses when watching it?
Quote: (08-20-2017 07:00 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:
Quote: (08-20-2017 04:53 PM)Dusty Wrote:
Calling LOZ
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Hmm, I wonder why people don't take these climate change forecasts as seriously as they take astronomy. Could it be because the astronomical forecasts have been verified for centuries to a precision of 1 part in 10 to a large power, whereas the climate change "forecasts" are always wrong and have never predicted anything successfully? And could this in turn be because in the one case the forecasts follow from a rigorously tested mathematical theory with very few assumptions and great explanatory power, and in the other case are produced by just-so-story "models" with dozens of arbitrary parameters and "fudge factors" and almost no predictive power whatsoever? Could that be the difference, eh Justin?
What a sweet scam this has been and remains, LOL. Just be grateful we now have a bona fide denier as head of the EPA and have pulled out of the Paris idiocy; of course all the ingrate Republicans should be kneeling at T's feet daily for this reason alone but it will be a cold day in hell before that happens.
Anyway, back to regularly scheduled programming, just had to answer Dusty's call.
Quote: (08-21-2017 11:44 AM)DJ-Matt Wrote:
I have a feeling if you point you phone's camera at the sun during the eclipse it'll burn the image sensor.
Quote: (08-21-2017 07:34 PM)Alpharius Wrote:
Quote: (08-21-2017 11:44 AM)DJ-Matt Wrote:
I have a feeling if you point you phone's camera at the sun during the eclipse it'll burn the image sensor.
It's not brighter than usual, it just hurts peoples eyes because they stare at it for a prolonged period of time.
I got a few selfies with it in the background, no problems here.
Quote: (08-21-2017 12:03 AM)Mercenary Wrote:
I stare directly at the sun with eyes fully open every now and then.
My eyesight is fine.
Don't believe everything they tell you.
Rather, ask yourself, what is it they dont want you to see during an eclipse.
Quote: (08-21-2017 12:03 AM)Mercenary Wrote:
I stare directly at the sun with eyes fully open every now and then.
My eyesight is fine.
Don't believe everything they tell you.
Rather, ask yourself, what is it they dont want you to see during an eclipse.
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Donald Trump stares into solar eclipse without safety glasses,
while aides shout 'don't look!
Washington DC |Tuesday 22 August 2017 16:21 BST|
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...05771.html
Donald Trump has been caught looking at the solar eclipse without safety glasses, despite all expert advice saying this practice is dangerous.
“Looking directly at the sun is unsafe except during the brief total phase of a solar eclipse (“totality”), when the moon entirely blocks the sun’s bright face, which will happen only within the narrow path of totality,” Nasa wrote on a webpage discussing how to view the 2017 solar eclipse safely.
“The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun is through special-purpose solar filters, such as ‘eclipse glasses’ or hand-held solar viewers.”
But this didn't stop the President, who has a reported tendency to act against the advice of his aides, from sneaking a peek after taking off his protective glasses. He squinted as he briefly looked up at the sun.
Mr Trump watched the rare spectacle from the Blue Room Balcony at the White House – hundreds of miles away from the eclipse’s path of totality – next to his wife Melania and son Barron.
According to the White House pool report, the President initially gesticulated to a crowd of administration staffers gathered below the balcony and pointed to the sky. As he did so, one of the White House aides standing beneath balcony shouted “don't look!”