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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I be honest on this anonymous forum and say I totally don't get it. I see so many people saying it is awe inspiring, amazing, gives goosebumps so I believe them of course but totally don't understand why it is so cool to be in the dark for three minutes. What am I missing?[/quote]

We went to the eclipse in 2017 (turned it into a long-weekend visit to Nashville). We're pulling the kids (high schoolers) for the Monday this April. We're planning to visit my wife's parents, who live in the totality band.

For me it was a mix of natural and unnatural. It's natural in the sense that everything going around the sun is casting a shadow all the time. Who even thinks about that or cares, right. And then every now and then (there are predictable patterns) things line up, and the moon between sun and earth pulls this total solar eclipse thing somewhere on the planet. The whole event was a fun experience (the buildup, the funny tiny crescent suns amid shadows, the fast-moving shadow as totality began, the beads, the corona), but for me totality was amazing, humbling even. It wasn't just "be[ing] in the dark for three minutes." It was like the sun went out. Turned off. The sun/moon thing in the sky didn't just look dark. To me, it looked like a deep well, a deep hole in the sky. Something that *really* shouldn't be there. Something unnatural and freakish. It made me think and feel for a few minutes, in a way nothing else has, that yes, I am really standing here on a planet moving around in space with other giant objects doing similar things. It made me thing about the ancients experiencing this in their time, without knowledge the simple explanation behind it all.[/quote]

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