Total Eclipse

[Gunner]

@Meat Grinder, among others,

I am heading down to Huntsville Alabama to visit my brother this long weekend and on Monday will be plunging in to rural Tennessee to catch the total eclipse of the sun (song title somewhere?)
We're heading in to a small town called Sparta.
The total eclipse is a 70 mile wide swath across the U.S.
The eclipse will last 2 hours but totality, when it goes dark as night, will last 2 1/2 minutes.
Anyway, I know there are people flocking in from all over so I was wondering if anyone was going to Tennessee?

 

[HOA_KSOP]

No, I drive about 20 miles north and I am in the totality. Me and about million other folks in Kansas City

 

[Gunner]

Yep. We procrastinated and now it looks like every hotel/motel in the State of Tennessee is booked.
The plan right now is to drive to a farm road near Sparta pull over, open the cooler, and consume mass quantities.

I have a friend at work is flying out to Nebraska and another heading down to Charleston South Carolina.

 

[HOA_KSOP]

I might do what I do with the NFL, watch it on replay....lol

 

[Meat Grinder]

@Meat Grinder, among others,

I am heading down to Huntsville Alabama to visit my brother this long weekend and on Monday will be plunging in to rural Tennessee to catch the total eclipse of the sun (song title somewhere?)
We're heading in to a small town called Sparta.
The total eclipse is a 70 mile wide swath across the U.S.
The eclipse will last 2 hours but totality, when it goes dark as night, will last 2 1/2 minutes.
Anyway, I know there are people flocking in from all over so I was wondering if anyone was going to Tennessee?

That's a work day for me. :-( Trying to con one of my coworkers into switching days. I doubt he'll fall for it. Never hurts to ask.

 

[mTk]

A friend of mine is driving all the way to Oregon for a glimpse.
I'm going to You Tube.

 

[Gunner]

I hope it's not the 2 minutes where all the vampires come out and give us all the strain.
Or the zombie apocalypse.

 

[Badger73]

Close. Totality will last about 2 minutes and 40 seconds.

 

[Louis]

I hope it's not the 2 minutes where all the vampires come out and give us all the strain.
Or the zombie apocalypse.

Stay alert...lol

 

[Meat Grinder]

What time is this supposed to happen (in Tennessee)?

 

[Badger73]

Plug your location in here https://eclipse-app.simulationcurriculum.com/spacedotcom-interactive.html to find out.

 

[mTk]

@Badger73. TY

 

[Hedgehog]

Some thing not to miss that's for sure.....Enjoy

 

[Nathangun]

I'd love to see the celestial clock in motion in this way, I hope everyone who does sees it will pause to reflect the bigger picture of our place in the universe and on this planet, our only home.

 

[mTk]

Oh, Lord. The greed! I've been reading things like $71/day motel rooms going for $1000.
The chaos across the U.S. Monday is going to be an amazing/terrifying story!

 

[Nathangun]

I first read about this eclipse back in January in the Astronomy Now journal. I feel as if I should given you all a 'heads up'.

 

[rocketman]

I'd love to see the celestial clock in motion in this way, I hope everyone who does sees it will pause to reflect the bigger picture of our place in the universe and on this planet, our only home.

 

[HOA_KSOP]

Observed 5 seconds of totality at my posit 17 miles south of the totality zone. Observed No birds dropping out of the sky, heard no cocks crowing, saw no human sacrifice, saw no hot naked Druid women doing a fertility dance. Such is the pity....

 

[Meat Grinder]

There were certainly some hot nurses watching it with me. Alas, none of them saw fit to get naked.

 

[Hedgehog]

Observed 5 seconds of totality at my posit 17 miles south of the totality zone. Observed No birds dropping out of the sky, heard no cocks crowing, saw no human sacrifice, saw no hot naked Druid women doing a fertility dance. Such is the pity....

LOL.....Perhaps next time mate....You can't beat a Hot Druid