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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn anticipation of tomorrow's total eclipse of the sun...
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Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)Zoonart
(11,897 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,738 posts)Blindness would be hell to live with.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)I have those glasses, and do not plan to go blind.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Fearing and worshiping the sun and moon, ignorant and superstitious, thinking the moon was eating the sun, etc.
Ancient scientists employed eclipses to keep calendars and to determine astronomy constants, a feat still not understood and acknowledged by most scientists and persons who label themselves archaeoastronomers, students of ancient astronomy.
Here is some info to push back that ignorance.
Eclipses have long held a special fascination for humanity. Observing and recording eclipses had a role in early advancement of human knowledge. Eclipses reveal the geometry of the solar system. Eclipse knowledge facilitates contemporary understanding of the cosmos as well as of prehistory and of the history of science. Eclipses function as temporal and spatial references for naked-eye astronomers, presenting an accurate, readily-apparent cosmic clock.
Eclipses are accurately documented in early history and archaeological studies demonstrate knowledge of eclipses in ancient cultures. Today, eclipse records made by ancient astronomers are important to science. The very oldest available eclipse records are used to determine values for temporal changes in the length of day and how fast the earth rotates. Better understandings of and finding additional ancient eclipse records would further assist modern astronomy and archaeology. Eclipse records also aid historians in fixing exact dates of past events.
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Link to tweet
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Edit: I appreciate the counter arguments, but I don't know anybody so far out of reality I would need to debate this with. Thank Dog!
DFW
(54,502 posts)I leave tonight back for Europe.
Funny story about Bonnie Tyler: about thirty years ago, I was on a plane from Düsseldorf to London, and there was a group of guys in leather pants in one row, one of which was on his knees turned toward the seat in back of him, and he was talking to some blonde woman. I thought I vaguely recognized some of them. One of the flight attendants said it was the Spandau Ballet, and their lead singer was particularly interested in Bonnie Tyler, who was sitting in the row in back of them.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)DFW
(54,502 posts)Warpy
(111,437 posts)so it should be a pretty dark day. I'll watch it online.