It definitely feels twilight-y here. We should reach 95%-ish totality in a few minutes.
And there's a weird heat-shimmery effect on a stone wall that I'm leaning against. Although it's NC in August, so it could just be actual heat shimmer.
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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.
Calli - Aug 21, 2017 9:32:36 am PDT #15682 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Tom Scola - Aug 21, 2017 9:36:06 am PDT #15683 of 30002
hwæt
It's, like, 71% dark outside.
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2017 9:49:29 am PDT #15684 of 30002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Overcast here, but the sun peeked out a few times. I borrowed someone's eclipse glasses and did confirm a dragon is eating the sun.
Liese S. - Aug 21, 2017 9:50:26 am PDT #15685 of 30002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
It got dark enough at totality here that the streetlights came on!
Atropa - Aug 21, 2017 9:53:55 am PDT #15686 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It got darker here, and I was able to get some good photos using the front-facing camera on my phone. This was my favorite: [link]
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Calli - Aug 21, 2017 9:56:06 am PDT #15687 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Even though we got pretty close to totality, it never got that dark here. It was just like before a storm, only with a mostly clear sky.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2017 9:58:07 am PDT #15688 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I had glasses, and STILL ended up looking at the sun too much! Because I am a dope. I guess that's why my coworker's preschoolers are being kept inside... I don't think I did permanent damage, though.
Laura - Aug 21, 2017 10:00:29 am PDT #15689 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Jealous of the people in the totality zones. We were at 65.8% per my far NE zip code, but it looked like a pretty small sliver to me.
View was easy through the welder mask. It must have been super freaky before people understood the science.
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2017 10:07:04 am PDT #15690 of 30002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sun came out again. It didn't seem that dark out until I remembered I was not wearing sunglasses. It seemed to be darker than when I wear sunglasses on a normal sunny day. Then I got into my apartment and realized it's brighter indoors than outdoors.
Our eyes just adjust to the dim sunlight so it seems brighter than it is, unless you're in the totality.
Calli - Aug 21, 2017 10:17:26 am PDT #15691 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
There's a group called Astronomers Without Borders who say they'll be collecting eclipse glasses for re-use in South America during the 2019 eclipse. [link]