Total eclipse a-comin '

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024



.. have fun..

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.. man, those natural spectacles sure are a thing to behold.

.. today as well as yesterday..

 

[ColdFire]

I' m going to be honest and say, concerning Tasmin Archer 's thoughts on the moon landing... I always found it kind of ironic though that a black person has one of the most famous songs out there concerning the moon-space-travel of mankind ....


Let' s face it, blacks ( "people of African descent ") have contributed very little to the coming of the "space-age" ..

.. just bein' honest here.

 

[Cole of Them Northwoods]

I'll tell you what.

 

[kanethenotorious]

I declined an opportunity to go to Ohio to watch the full eclipse. Stayed behind. I could have been right in Flak's / Grug Arius's territory.

 

[Langbardo]

When hordes of darkies pass between you and the Sun you have a total eclipse

 

[Macrobius]

Bump.

Did it move for you?

 

[ColdFire]

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I'll tell you what.

.. I'm all ears

Bump.

Did it move for you?

I myself didn't see it, I live in Bremen, Northern Europe ( German region of Lower Saxony, geographically speaking, the Northern German plain )..

Just posted this cause I'm a sucker for natural phenomena . .

 

[ColdFire]

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... well.. the next total solar eclipse visible from where I live'll be..
9 - 3 - 2081....
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/germany?iso=20810903

hmm ... I'll see it if I reach the age of 100 ,yes I'm vintage '81

 

[Macrobius]

Metronomes are underrated for sure.

I used to have one with settings like 'Adagio' 'Allegro' and so forth.

Accelerationists don't know what they are missing.

 

[Empress Cheesatine]

 

[Empress Cheesatine]

 

[Empress Cheesatine]

UNICEF working hard to potty train the world!

 

[Macrobius]

UNICEF working hard to potty train the world!

They should take lessons from Japan.

I hear they even say mean things about Jew hygiene there.

 

[Macrobius]

We share Hollow Earth Day, yes?

 

[Grug Arius]

I saw this today while out mowing,

It was muh third eclipse, it was 99.7% shade. The sky had a few clouds but the sun was not obstructed by them

Just unbelievable. The other two eclipses were nothing in comparison

Everything in muh vision was just so clear, the contrast was enthralling, it was like I was looking thru a new set of eyeballs

Every shadow had the most amazing contrast and sharpness. No photo can do justice to what this looks like. It was glorious, subhanAllah

What a blessed day

 

[Macrobius]

By no means total (our last partial) but... THEY KNOW.



'To me they appear, one as a ray, one as light, one as a disk, and all as a single radiance and a single splendor.'

- St John Climacus, Step 30 (Faith, Hope, and Charity)

 

[Macrobius]

From Tunis:

Is your cat still alive?

He hasn't yet ascended to the Jellicoe/ @calico /Heaviside Layer[1] if that's what you mean. Not sure they let gingers in the Calico club you know.

[1]: British term for the Ionosphere and 'Sporadic E-skip' effect. See also, in physics and mathematics, 'The Heaviside Step Function' (Derivative of that is a Dirac Delta, to us physicists, and a 'generalised function' you maths guys). Heaviside was waf (white as frog) that way.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=old+possum+book+of+practical+cats+eliot

Anyway I think the ray is Faith, the light is Hope, and the disk is Charity, in that quotation.

Of course, to a Christian -- the Holy Ghost gives you Faith, the Son gives you Hope, and God the Father gives you Love, but they are one single radiance and splendlor (what the Muslims call Tawhid).

 

[Empress Cheesatine]

They should take lessons from Japan.

I hear they even say mean things about Jew hygiene there.

I dunno. Looks like Japan is starting to agree to take in migrants. It's going straight to shit from here.

 

[ColdFire]

Funny thing is ...as soon as I hear the expression ' total eclipse ' I have to think of a part of my childhood..

Many may remember the video game 'Tomb Raider -The Last Revelation' which came out in ' 99..

Man.. the story of this game had me fascinated back then ..
For those who don 't know, the story is told that Lara Croft unwittingly releases an imprisoned ancient egyptian deity.. 'Set' .. the alleged adversary to the egyptian 'good god ', Horus .. the gameplay features Croft trying to undo what she has done, all over Egypt ..


I found that concept just fascinating as a young one, to be honest .. went so far as to even research ancient myths to get to the ' core ' of this story ..


.... just my back then teenage mind

Anyway, thought about the scene " And Set saith : I am the shadow across the sun ..."



.. some kind of ancient egyptian concept of ' god and the devil ', I suppose

 

[ColdFire]

Interestingly.... Horus -head of a falcon .. Set - head of a jackal ...

... maybe deep-psychological undertones ?

Falcons... fly high in the sky.. close to the sun ..

Jackals - predators..

Hmmmm..