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[quote=Anonymous]We are animals, at some level no different from other species. Even though we may understand the astronomical phenomenon, on some visceral level it unsettles us to see our sun, the source of our existence, disappear from sight even for just a few minutes at a time of day when it is supposed to be visible.

I didn’t get to see totality, although I’ve been looking at photos all day long and they are phenomenal. But where I live we had 93% eclipse, and it was just a little unnerving to see the light diminish so much in the middle of the day - and it felt much better when the light returned to normal.

When we talk about the things that could really ruin us, they are all tied to our relationship to our sun. A meteor strike that causes devastation that blocks out the sun. A thermonuclear war that causes fallout that blocks out the sun. A massive explosion of the Yellowstone caldera that blocks out the sun for decades.

Our sun is our life. Without her we all die. Someday she will become a red giant and kill us all. Of course at the cellular level we all worship her. [/quote]

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