Eclipse 2024

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by Darrell Green Fan

I'm sitting this one out as a peaceful protest. I was told in 2017 that I may not live to see this again, it would be decades. So we got the glasses and booked to the beach where we had a good time with all the other viewers.

Now here we are not even 7 years later for this "once a generation" event and I'm not buying more glasses, the box with the hole thingy my wife made never seems to really work. It's honestly a been there done that situation for me so I'm about to take a nap as this works it's way towards Maryland.

2017 was the first eclipse in 100 years visible across the US. First one visible in US skies at all in like 40 years so that was certainly generational. This one was more hyped because
A) longer totality
B) more solar flares
C) the moon was about 8000 miles closer to the earth than 2017.