You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.

River ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

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.


meara - Apr 08, 2024 11:37:36 am PDT #29646 of 30000

I'm jealous of the eclipse watchers! It's so cloudy here, you can't even tell that there's a sliver supposedly missing.


erikaj - Apr 08, 2024 11:39:11 am PDT #29647 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

Here it just kind of looked like a big cloud passed over.


Dana - Apr 08, 2024 11:58:36 am PDT #29648 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Proof of eclipse on my Facebook!


msbelle - Apr 08, 2024 12:34:29 pm PDT #29649 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I watched live NASA coverage on my work computer like the big giant slacker I am and went out and viewed partial through a coworker’s glasses. I still enjoy a hole in paper approach though.


DavidS - Apr 08, 2024 12:40:08 pm PDT #29650 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Whole lotta nothin' going on -ma, Epic!


Laura - Apr 08, 2024 12:57:52 pm PDT #29651 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Ain't~nothing~ma, Epic.

My son called me to say it got real dark outside. Cloud cover but they could see the tiny bit of sun left since it was 99.5% where he lives. He met one of his neighbors, so at least it got him out of the house.


meara - Apr 08, 2024 5:30:02 pm PDT #29652 of 30000

I can’t imagine not driving to where it was 100% if it was that close!

I am afraid my dance weekend event may end up on Fox News. We had some dance troupe performances Saturday night. One of them from the local country radio station’s group of ladies. Sure, whatever. But someone’s been posting that they were asked to leave and not perform because they were wearing patriotic outfits. I did see some folks during rehearsal time in American flag looking tank tops. I asked our people and they claimed no, they weren’t asked by anyone official to leave, but that attendees were upset by the outfits (?!!!) and that the dancers were offended people were upset and therefore left. But it’s being claimed the dancers were asked to leave and…ugh. Don’t want to be on Fox News!! Also rolling my eyes at people who are Big Mad about American flag apparel. Is it conservative coded? Sure. Is it offensive? No. (Had it been confederate flag shirts absolutely would’ve supported asking them to leave. But it wasn’t)


Steph L. - Apr 08, 2024 6:07:40 pm PDT #29653 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Epic, lots of nothing~ma headed your way!

We had perfect weather for the eclipse -- 70s and sunny with some wispy clouds that didn't interfere with viewing at all. We drove about an hour west into Indiana, to a state park where Tim's brother and some family were camping. Totality was stunning. Nothing really prepared me for it. People all over the campground cheered when totality started, which was awesome.


dcp - Apr 08, 2024 6:37:26 pm PDT #29654 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

My eclipse-viewing plan mostly worked. Arrived at my first choice of site about three and a half hours before totality and snagged the last open parking spot. There was quite a crowd, and some pretty fancy telescope and photography rigs. Lots of kids running around, and about a dozen dogs, too.

I grabbed a couple of quick mobile-phone shaky-cam pictures, but mostly just watched the old-fashioned way. [link]

There was a little bit of thin cirrus, but the viewing was still very good. Jupiter and Venus were much brighter than I expected.

It was a great show. Worth the effort.


Calli - Apr 09, 2024 4:04:53 am PDT #29655 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I’m so glad it was nothing worse, Epic!

We had clear skies and ~75% coverage here, so I went out to my parking lot with a colander and a camera for science. Some of my neighbors joined me. Since I’m in a local astronomy group this has been on my radar for a while, and I had a 6-pack of glasses to hand out. (I may never be so prepared for anything ever again.) I work with a bunch of fellow nerds so they were all cool with me being away from my desk for an hour or so—most of them were, too.