So, anyone doing anything special for Sunday's annular solar eclipse?

Sunday's Solar Eclipse 'Ring of Fire': Where and How to See It

On Sunday afternoon (May 20), the path of an annular solar eclipse will cross parts of eight western states. SPACE.com estimates that an estimated 6.6 million Americans live within the path of annularity.

An annular solar eclipse is typically no match for a total solar eclipse. It is really more like an embellished partial eclipse, with the beautiful solar corona not becoming visible and the sky never getting really dark. Nevertheless, an annular solar eclipse still ranks as one of the most remarkable of celestial sights for avid skywatchers.

Sunday's eclipse track begins in East Asia and crossed the Pacific Ocean before reaching North America. In the United States, the U.S. National Park Service has invited skywatchers to view the solar eclipse from a national park, while the University of Colorado, at Boulder is opening its Folsom Stadium — a football stadium — to the public in what organizers are calling the world's largest solar eclipse viewing party.

eta: An annular solar eclipse happens when the moon is too far away from the Earth to completely block the sun.

tommyrot's right: I wouldn't be a recent college grad right now for love or money.

I rather like my 40s: I'm not as fit as I was 20 years ago, but I have much better fashion sense, and I'm making enough to do some traveling. The only big downside is dealing with my aging parents.

The project was eventually scrapped as it was felt that the public would not respond favorably to the U.S. dropping a nuclear bomb on the moon

There's a great book about how, in the early 1960s, the Dept. of Energy decided that the best thing to do with a nuclear bomb would be to use it to excavate a new harbor on the Alaskan coast north of Nome. The protests and lawsuits associated with stopping that were some of the foundation for the modern environmental movement.

But I'd never heard about bombing the moon! Just ridiculous.

bombing the moon!

Dang, Chairface Chippendale was a hack.

Tep,

I never use Priceline for a rental car. I use Hotwire and I love it.

Dang, Chairface Chippendale was a hack.

Heh. I thought of Chairface too.

But the attitude behind "Let's bomb the moon!" reminded me of an Invader Zim episode where they discover a planet whose entire population exhausted its resources and died out because they turned their planet into a giant space ship.

Zim: But why would you do such a thing?
Alien Hologram (all that was left of them): Because it's cool.

I never use Priceline for a rental car. I use Hotwire and I love it.

What do you love about it? (I've never gotten a rental car from Priceline OR Hotwire, so I'm trying to figure out the best option for bidding on a rental car. I've used Priceline for hotels -- but not the Name Your Own Price, since I wanted a specific hotel -- and generally been happy with the rates.)

In more cheerful news, this is one of the projects I've been working on over the past few years. I've been coordinating, as my organization owns the property. this is a great gallery of photos.

When I get too pissed off about the job situation, I need to remember that.

Dang, Chairface Chippendale was a hack.

I dread the possibility of controlled nuclear fusion and petajoule laser technology being combined in Donald Trump's lifetime. Imagine a billboard that everyone can see at night.

I dread the possibility of controlled nuclear fusion and petajoule laser technology being combined in Donald Trump's lifetime. Imagine a billboard that everyone can see at night.

There was a company that wanted to sell billboards in space. They were simultaneously telling potential customers how everybody would be able to see their space billboard and telling everybody else the billboards would not be that noticeable.

The project died, probably because it was both extremely expensive and extremely stupid.

I think it's unlikely I'm having the best years of my life right now, but I don't see any reason they couldn't start next week...I've liked pretty much all of my life except the parts with the distracting pain, so we'll see.