Niska ,'War Stories'
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.
(Here's why I don't usually post: by the time I can come back, the conversation has moved on...)
(Hi, -t!)
The nice thing about pinhole projection is that you don't even have to make anything. Look at the shadow of your interlaced fingers, or a colander, or tree leaves. Eclipse projections everywhere!
I totally get the concerns, but lack of exposure is why people don't get science, argh.
I totally get the concerns, but lack of exposure is why people don't get science, argh.
Totally, that is what is so frustrating!
The dancing rings thrown by the annular eclipse through tree leaves are one of my favorite visual memories. I was trying to explain the interlaced fingers method of pinhole projection to the guys who were renting us the car (the one guy kept saying "but you can't look right at the sun? I kinda want to now" so I hope he doesn't do that at least). I did show it to some of my coworkers last time we had a partial during work hours, but that was a tiny sliver missing and they were not so impressed.
My eclipse glasses, which I ordered a week ago with two business day shipping, are still listed as "preparing for shipment" on the tracker. I'm pretty sure I will not have eclipse glasses for the actual eclipse.
A local disability group (which is very informal -- we have almost no actual organization beyond "Guy who's mostly in charge because it was his idea to have a local chapter") is trying to put together a statement on Charlottesville. We're all discussing edits. There was some actual discussion about several points, and edits made, and I appreciate all of that discussion, but there are also a bunch of grammatical errors, and I pointed them out, and those were not changed. And I can't really point them out again without looking like an ass, but one of them is really annoying me. (Most of it is misplaced commas, but there's one sentence with the wrong verb tense.)
Ugh to both of those, Hil.
I'm trying desperately not start anything in the next 20 minutes so I can just cleanly leave when my 8 hours are up and get to vacationing. Maybe I'll straighten up the papers on my desk.
Success! Work badge is in its box by my front door and it can stay there for 6 days! Now for laundry and packing be so forth
WHY don't people believe you when you tell them they're texting the wrong number???
Yay for vacationing, -t!
With the eclipse, you just can't look directly at the sun, right? It's not like you can't go outside if you don't have glasses? (I realize I sound like a complete idiot, but Sara is asking, and the last total eclipse I can remember was when I was a kid, and ... I don't remember much about it. Except that Stephen King used it in a bunch of books.)
you just can't look directly at the sun, right? It's not like you can't go outside if you don't have glasses?
Correct.
Please, everyone, don't burn a hole in your retinas!!!
You should never look directly at the sun without a proper filter (or at totality if you're in the totality's path.) Other than that, just like normal except the light is muted. Build a pinhole camera! Find a tree that dapples the sunlight and see the crescents of the sun in the dapples. Or use your fingers to create dappling (It'll take some experimenting.)
In Bhutan, we drilled a buncha holes in a board and made an eclipse sign to project a buncha little crescent suns on a sheet forming words: (go back a few photos and you can see the board) [link]