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  1. 8 minutes ago, Eastwood said:

    Extremely bright where I am with a good bit of cloud cover, but some blue is starting to break through. Seems like the sun might be burning away some of the cover. 

    It would be ironic - or something - if the sun burned off the clouds, but then the eclipse cooled things off, allowing clouds to form again, only to have the sun burn the clouds off again after the eclipse.

    I'll neg myself.

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  2. 21 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Maybe this has been covered, but if you don’t want to stand under a tree, you can make a pinhole camera of sorts. Punch a small hole in a piece of heavy stock paper or cardboard and let the sun project through that onto a sheet of paper and watch the eclipse that way. If you’re in the path of totality, you can look up when the sun is completely covered. Watching just the corona is safe and I’m betting it will be pretty fucking awesome. Just look away again as soon as the sun peaks out. 

    You can use a colander, too.

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  3. 38 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Did the pitcher just forget which leg to start with and then was like oh not this one, this one. 

    Sometimes I do that when I'm bowling.

  4. 56 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, "If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky." Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.

    Wasn't that premise in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

    It's been a few decades since I read that. 

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