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  1. 14 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Aside from an hour long totality being silly and making no sense at all, why wouldn’t all totalities along the center line be the same length of time every eclipse?  Isn’t it just the speed of the moon and rotation of the earth?  

    Astronomy, physics and geometry and shit

    Duration

    The following factors determine the duration of a total solar eclipse (in order of decreasing importance):[33][34]

    1. The Moon being almost exactly at perigee (making its angular diameter as large as possible).
    2. Earth being very near aphelion (furthest away from the Sun in its elliptical orbit, making its angular diameter nearly as small as possible).
    3. The midpoint of the eclipse being very close to Earth's equator, where the rotational velocity is greatest and is closest to the speed of the lunar shadow moving over Earth's surface.
    4. The vector of the eclipse path at the midpoint of the eclipse aligning with the vector of Earth's rotation (i.e. not diagonal but due east).
    5. The midpoint of the eclipse being near the subsolar point (the part of Earth closest to the Sun).

    The longest eclipse that has been calculated thus far is the eclipse of July 16, 2186 (with a maximum duration of 7 minutes 29 seconds over northern Guyana).[33]

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  2. Refs whistles will be the only thing over this next 10 minutes that could make it interesting.  Bigs gets in trouble for UCONN and could get Purdue back in this.  

    2 minutes ago, troph said:

    They are up by 11 letting edey go one on one. Edey gets his - sorta - and UConn is pulling away. Edey hasn’t dominated since the 8 min mark left in the first half. So far the UConn plan is working great. No need to double team him at all. 

    They have been bringing help the entire half...including when he threw that ball into the back court.  It isn't overly committed help but just a guy there moving back and forth annoying Edey.

    And again there....Spencer

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  3. We had angel H. at our semi final game today. He cost us chance to play for championship. This is how he was set up most of the game. Bases loaded no outs top of last inning. Lilshep just drove in 2 to give us the lead. He rung our kid on pitch that was in other batters box for 2nd out. Then rung up next kid on pitch that crossed at logo on batting helmet. Bottom of last inning they got 2 on with 1 out. Thier coach yelled at our pitcher causing a balk. We lost but it sucked for our kids cause they know they got screwed 263f1482e10c359a55afb32c8ffcef13.jpg

    Umps not setting up correctly drives me nuts. It will not improve through HS though.
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  4. In most correct order.  Balk/illegal pitch (didn't come set after stepping off, not sure if runners on or not)......................regular ball......................................................................................................................................................................................................................strike

     

    So of course the strike is what Angel went with.  

     

  5. 4 minutes ago, Helobious said:

     

    Well or this

    Though frankly whoever all the field umpires watching that didn't exactly cover themselves in glory either.

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