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Yes. There is significant difference between a 90% and totality. Ninety percent is barely noticeable. Anything less that totality is just interesting. Totality is awe inspiring.
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wabigoon:
I think it was Captain Cook that was having issues with some islanders on his multi-year sail and was aware of a pending eclipse. He threatened to make the sun go out, and when it happened, they decided he should maybe be tolerated.
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We're almost dead center of the path. Schools and many businesses will be closed.
The county is issuing special temporary campground permits for anyone wanting to open up their property to accommodate eclipse tourists. They're expecting up to 100,000 visitors in the area.
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I could really care less.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Bob, you're Cooler than cool. 
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Bob, you're Cooler than cool. Not really.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Aug. 23, 2044
Quick Facts. After the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, the next total solar eclipse that can be seen from the contiguous United States will be on Aug. 23, 2044.
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Bristoe
The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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[quote=1minute]Yes. There is significant difference between a 90% and totality. Ninety percent is barely noticeable. Anything less that totality is just interesting. Totality is awe inspiring.[/img] Yep, I happened to be in Oaxaca visiting a girlfriend when one went through (‘91??). Four plus minutes of totality. 1) Most of the eclipse is just regular daylight, you look up and part of the sun is blocked. 2) Still full daylight but the sunlight has no intensity, you look up and only a crescent sun is visible. 3) Like someone is turning down a dimmer switch it starts to get dark everywhere at once. 4) Full totality! A black sun with a fiery corona around it. Stars visible in the black sky around the sun. You can see out of the moon’s shadow in every direction like a 360 degree dawn. Like nothing you’ve ever seen. 5) The girlfriend and the blanket on the isolated Indian ruin (all over the place in Oaxaca) were positives, the bottle of wine was not. The whole time I was wishing I was stone cold sober.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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Going to friends home in Marble falls to check it out. I hope it’s clear that day
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