Many are keeping them inside during the eclipse, because liability.
(planetarium director crashes through the underbrush) BOOOOO. Use pinhole projection, people. It's super safe. Your back is to the sun!
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'First Date'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Una - Aug 17, 2017 8:54:30 am PDT #15495 of 30002
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
-t - Aug 17, 2017 8:57:04 am PDT #15496 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hi Una!
Jesse - Aug 17, 2017 9:00:46 am PDT #15497 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm wondering if we can use some old eclipse beliefs to do some good? I'm looking at this one in particular:
The Batammaliba, who live in Benin and Togo, used a solar eclipse as a teaching moment. According to their legends, an eclipse of the Sun meant that the Sun and the Moon were fighting and that the only way to stop them from hurting each other was for people on Earth to resolve all conflicts with each other.
Connie Neil - Aug 17, 2017 9:01:31 am PDT #15498 of 30002
brillig
Use pinhole projection, people. It's super safe. Your back is to the sun!
But Little Tommy will get impatient for his turn and look over his shoulder and squint up at the sun, and the teachers will be defusing squabbles over whose turn it is and showing the kids Yet Again how it works, and won't catch Little Tommy before he gets retinal burns.
Or, if they've made all their own viewers, Little Billy won't be able to get his to work and won't wait for help and will just look at the sun himself.
I don't blame the admins for wishing this was happening on a weekend when it would be the parents' fault for kids being kids.
Connie Neil - Aug 17, 2017 9:07:58 am PDT #15499 of 30002
brillig
I just checked, and I'm going to get 89.7% of hte eclipse from my office window, just before lunch. Cool.
-t - Aug 17, 2017 9:18:40 am PDT #15500 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I like that, Jesse. Doesn't give us a lot of time to resolve all conflicts, though.
Jesse - Aug 17, 2017 9:20:30 am PDT #15501 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think eclipse is what tells us it's time to resolve conflicts, not that we have to have it done by then?
-t - Aug 17, 2017 9:31:34 am PDT #15502 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ah, yes, that makes sense.
Toddson - Aug 17, 2017 10:14:58 am PDT #15503 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
A number of roadwork projects are shutting down that day - they're worried about accidents ... which I can kind of understand. The people who drive down the highway at top speed talking on their phones will probably be among those who will try to view the eclipse while driving.
In kind-of-related news, I saw someone had a sign asking for a sign if Trump should be impeached ... blocking out the sun or something. Maybe in the next week.
Dana - Aug 17, 2017 12:12:44 pm PDT #15504 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I should not post this on FB, because of family reasons, but some white people sure put a lot of energy into making sure we don't rename shit named after Confederate generals. Did you know that Robert E. Lee was a scout during the Mexican-American war and saved lives?
I didn't! And I still don't give a shit!