Where will you be on August 21?

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I'm gonna be on the moon cuz I think it's a lot safer than being on the sun cuz I don't have a pair of those solar glasses.
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JFL Live wrote: If I was already blind, I might try filing a lawsuit... :evil:
:ahha: I could poke ya in the eyes with a sharp stick if it would help eh. Anything for a bro... [emoji106]

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Cuban wrote:
:ahha: I could poke ya in the eyes with a sharp stick if it would help eh. Anything for a bro... [emoji106]

You know, if I had a long lost brother.... I think he might look like you. :lolfall:
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JFL Live wrote: You know, if I had a long lost brother.... I think he might look like you. :lolfall:
... We are two wild and crazy guys! :lolfall:

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Cuban wrote:
... We are two wild and crazy guys! :lolfall:

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JFL Live wrote:
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Yep. [emoji106] (and it's even one American and one Canadian...)

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The wife and I will be in St Catharines ON the 21st having lunch with one of my wife's childhood family friends. The friend owns a large farm in Saskatchewan, but will be in Ontario for a couple days. Since they haven't seen each other since kids, it's a rare opportunity. They have reconnected on Facebook. The power of social media.

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I dunno, just can't seem to get worked up about it. Have a bad case of ennui concerning the eclipse. Now if the earth, moon, and sun were on a collision path, then .................

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Tbeck wrote:The wife and I will be in St Catharines ON the 21st having lunch with one of my wife's childhood family friends. The friend owns a large farm in Saskatchewan, but will be in Ontario for a couple days. Since they haven't seen each other since kids, it's a rare opportunity. They have reconnected on Facebook. The power of social media.
Even that far away, you'll see .77, not too shabby. It will definitely get weirdly dim around lunchtime and a farm could be fun...animals really get punked by eclipses...it's funny. Dogs get all nervous, chickens will sometimes go back in the coop, cows start ambling back to the barn but then look confused when it starts getting light again...etc. :lmao:

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My solar glasses finally came in!!! [emoji106]


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Just kidding, here's my real solar glasses...


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Doing some more practicing taking pictures of the sun. This looks like the best I can do. ISO 100 - Shutter 1/200 - F/10 - FL/500

Hope it's clear out on Monday!


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JFL Live wrote:Doing some more practicing taking pictures of the sun. This looks like the best I can do. ISO 100 - Shutter 1/200 - F/10 - FL/500

Hope it's clear out on Monday!


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those are really good... :blink:


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Kansas is currently shitting cloud cover right down our eclipse airspace...God how I hate them. My first act as King will be to declare war and turn the place into public parking... :hellfire:

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jeffcoslacker wrote: Kansas is currently shitting cloud cover right down our eclipse airspace...God how I hate them. My first act as King will be to declare war and turn the place into public parking... :hellfire:
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Up here we often have soooo much cloud cover... but today it's a big beautiful blue sky day! [emoji2]

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Cuban wrote:
jeffcoslacker wrote: Kansas is currently shitting cloud cover right down our eclipse airspace...God how I hate them. My first act as King will be to declare war and turn the place into public parking... :hellfire:
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Up here we often have soooo much cloud cover... but today it's a big beautiful blue sky day! [emoji2]
Well the good news is the clouds are pulling out of our region here, so while taking a drive north to see totality is a wash, I should get a decent 98% here with no problem.

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There is no place I would rather be for this event than Nashville! Don't know if it will even be an event here in Upstate.
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury…
Signifying nothing”

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RoadKing wrote:There is no place I would rather be for this event than Nashville! Don't know if it will even be an event here in Upstate.
You will get enough to notice something weird happening...over the next few hours. Already got a piece missing here, and the wavelength has shifted to a much more yellowish in the last 20 mins... :clap:

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So, what are the odds of this? The moon is seemingly the exact right size and perfect distance from us that when it totally eclipses the sun the two seem to show the seemingly exact circumference! I think that is pretty wild!
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury…
Signifying nothing”

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So weird, standing outside, in seemingly full sunlight yet it is without any heat and dim....disorienting and disturbing, in a strange way...creepy...can see where people were really frightful back when they didn't know what it was. Would seem like the End of Days or something :eek:

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I was outside hoping to see my shadow disappear and the dogs go nuts.... but nothing happened. It didn't get dim, my shadow stays the same and the dogs just looked at me like I was nuts for standing out in the hot sunlight. :bang: [space] :lolfall: It was just another normal Monday around here. :blink:
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