I don't get the Eclipse madness!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't either. During the last one I did stop what I was doing (shopping) for a few minutes and kind of check it out while trying not to burn my eyeballs and then continued on my way.

I would not go out of my way or spend any money to experience the sun disappearing for a short time. It actually disappears where I live every single night for hours.

you sound like a lot of fun

Thanks, yes, I am a lot of fun.

Thankfully the people in my life don't judge me based on my feelings about eclipses. We have some other stuff going on.

And yet, here you are posting about your feelings about eclipses.
Have you ever seen one in totality? Or do you just want to tell us your feelings about looking up at the sun without solar glasses on while you were shopping?
If you were at all curious about things you don't understand, you might look discover that the sun doesn't "disappear", it is masked by the moon. It's kinda different from the sun setting.
Is this really that hard to understand?

I was responding to the original post. Is that so hard to understand?

[Anonymous]

For me, the last one with the social media posts - craziness. I wanted to see it for myself

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand that it's a rare event, but what are we going to see that's so spectacular?

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Day turn into night in totality for several minutes. Suns corona. Animals and birds confused. Something that pre modern age humans saw and did not understand at all and revered, feared, took as proof of god or omen of evil.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't either. During the last one I did stop what I was doing (shopping) for a few minutes and kind of check it out while trying not to burn my eyeballs and then continued on my way.

I would not go out of my way or spend any money to experience the sun disappearing for a short time. It actually disappears where I live every single night for hours.

you sound like a lot of fun

Thanks, yes, I am a lot of fun.

Thankfully the people in my life don't judge me based on my feelings about eclipses. We have some other stuff going on.

And yet, here you are posting about your feelings about eclipses.
Have you ever seen one in totality? Or do you just want to tell us your feelings about looking up at the sun without solar glasses on while you were shopping?
If you were at all curious about things you don't understand, you might look discover that the sun doesn't "disappear", it is masked by the moon. It's kinda different from the sun setting.
Is this really that hard to understand?

Not the PP, but people like you are exhausting. Why is it so hard for you to accept that others don’t share your same feelings about everything? Or, even if they do find it cool, not enough to drop everything for a couple days to invest the time and energy to go see it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't either. During the last one I did stop what I was doing (shopping) for a few minutes and kind of check it out while trying not to burn my eyeballs and then continued on my way.

I would not go out of my way or spend any money to experience the sun disappearing for a short time. It actually disappears where I live every single night for hours.

you sound like a lot of fun

Thanks, yes, I am a lot of fun.

Thankfully the people in my life don't judge me based on my feelings about eclipses. We have some other stuff going on.

And yet, here you are posting about your feelings about eclipses.
Have you ever seen one in totality? Or do you just want to tell us your feelings about looking up at the sun without solar glasses on while you were shopping?
If you were at all curious about things you don't understand, you might look discover that the sun doesn't "disappear", it is masked by the moon. It's kinda different from the sun setting.
Is this really that hard to understand?

Not the PP, but people like you are exhausting. Why is it so hard for you to accept that others don’t share your same feelings about everything? Or, even if they do find it cool, not enough to drop everything for a couple days to invest the time and energy to go see it.

I don't GAS what other people do but this was so stupid that I had to respond:
"I would not go out of my way or spend any money to experience the sun disappearing for a short time. It actually disappears where I live every single night for hours."
You have to admit that statement is moronic, right?

[Anonymous]

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Not the PP, but people like you are exhausting. Why is it so hard for you to accept that others don’t share your same feelings about everything? Or, even if they do find it cool, not enough to drop everything for a couple days to invest the time and energy to go see it.

Is this about your real life, or just this thread which was arguably created to solicit endorsements of the eclipse?

[Anonymous]

There's a significant difference from a partial eclipse (which is what occurred in the DC area in 2017, and what will occur this year) and totality. A partial eclipse is when it gets a bit overcast, and if you look up in the sky at the right angle, you can see the moon cover the sun, but if you weren't paying attention, you wouldn't notice any difference. Totality is where it gets dark (or at least like twilight) for 2-3 minutes in the middle of the day.

That said, I agree with what others in the thread have said. If the path of totality was 1-2 hours away, I'd do it, but I think the people that are spending $$$ to fly and stay in a hotel to see it get dark in the middle of the day are kind of crazy. Especially since its only a few minutes, and if the weather is overcast, that ruins the experience significantly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a significant difference from a partial eclipse (which is what occurred in the DC area in 2017, and what will occur this year) and totality. A partial eclipse is when it gets a bit overcast, and if you look up in the sky at the right angle, you can see the moon cover the sun, but if you weren't paying attention, you wouldn't notice any difference. Totality is where it gets dark (or at least like twilight) for 2-3 minutes in the middle of the day.

That said, I agree with what others in the thread have said. If the path of totality was 1-2 hours away, I'd do it, but I think the people that are spending $$$ to fly and stay in a hotel to see it get dark in the middle of the day are kind of crazy. Especially since its only a few minutes, and if the weather is overcast, that ruins the experience significantly.

This is pretty much my view too. I do think there’s more of a herd mentality this time- maybe because there’s a bigger swath of the US that will experience totality. But the same friends who were jazzed about the partial eclipse in DC in 2017 and made no effort to experience totality that time around are now like ZOMG a partial eclipse is So Lame, why aren’t you giving your children a once in a lifetime experience, etc. etc.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know where you get eclipse glasses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know where you get eclipse glasses?

Aren't libraries giving them out?
I've heard sunglasses work fine, too.(Kidding)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are some people so negative about it? Like Debby downers. If you’re not interested then fine but other people are. There’s no reason to be negative about it and wish that there is rain or clouds to ruin the fun for others.

Some people are just a-holes.

[Anonymous]

I don't fully understand how some people are SO into it that they'll travel, pull their kids out of school, and things like that. But I'll walk outside with my eclipse glasses to check it out--if we're even able to see it.

I remember seeing the one in 1994 and it was pretty cool. My school gave out glasses and all of the students went onto the football field to see it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are some people so negative about it? Like Debby downers. If you’re not interested then fine but other people are. There’s no reason to be negative about it and wish that there is rain or clouds to ruin the fun for others.

Some people are just a-holes.

And they keep starting new threads about it rather than just sticking to the original one.

We were coincidentally near totality in 2017 and so my husband insisted that we see it. It was fine. But I don't need to see it again and certainly wouldn't pay or travel just to do so.

[Anonymous]

Neither do I.

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Anonymous wrote:Same - wasn't there just one a few years ago? We took a break from work to see it but I wasn't that impressed. Don't understand spending the crazy amount on hotels and travel times to see it.

Same. It was sort of interesting but once is enough. I don't care at all.