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Eclipse 18:58 - Aug 12 with 1631 viewsnodge_blue

Isnt it remarkable that the moon fits exactly over the sun in the eclipse.

I asked AI and apparently the sun is 400 times bigger than the moon and also 400 times further from the earth than the moon.

So the maths equals a nearly exact fit.

Thats blown my mind.

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Eclipse on 18:59 - Aug 12 with 1594 viewsKeno

Not as amazing as the fact that meteors and comets land in exactly the right size crater

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Eclipse on 19:04 - Aug 12 with 1523 viewsSwansea_Blue

Makes you think dunnit

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Eclipse on 19:08 - Aug 12 with 1473 viewsGeoffSentence

enjoy it while you can. The moon is moving away from earth at a rate of about 3.8 cm a year. In about 600,000,000 years it will no longer cover the sun.

Don't boil a kettle on a boat.
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Eclipse on 19:08 - Aug 12 with 1463 viewsZx1988

Makes you feel rather small in the grand scheme of things, doesn't it?

But also, what an absolute stroke of luck that all of these various little coincidences fell into place to make our existence possible. That, and the fact that we all got to live in the same timeline as KMc.

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Eclipse on 19:24 - Aug 12 with 1367 viewsGuthrum

Cloud came across at exactly the right moment.


Good Lord! Whatever is it?
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Eclipse on 20:00 - Aug 12 with 1191 viewseireblue

Eclipse on 19:08 - Aug 12 by GeoffSentence

enjoy it while you can. The moon is moving away from earth at a rate of about 3.8 cm a year. In about 600,000,000 years it will no longer cover the sun.


Hmmm, not sure Factors viewing glasses are worth it then.
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Eclipse on 20:07 - Aug 12 with 1142 viewsRyorry

Eclipse on 19:08 - Aug 12 by Zx1988

Makes you feel rather small in the grand scheme of things, doesn't it?

But also, what an absolute stroke of luck that all of these various little coincidences fell into place to make our existence possible. That, and the fact that we all got to live in the same timeline as KMc.


And SBR - who happened to be just coming into his full powers at ITFC during & immediately after my 2 year Ipswich Civic college course - how I got into football :)

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Eclipse on 20:12 - Aug 12 with 1125 viewsJ2BLUE

Yea and it's remarkable that these cover one slice of Kingsmill as well:



WAKE UP PEOPLE.
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Eclipse on 20:23 - Aug 12 with 1040 viewsBasingstokeBlue

Eclipse on 19:24 - Aug 12 by Guthrum

Cloud came across at exactly the right moment.



What's a cloud?

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Eclipse on 20:55 - Aug 12 with 934 viewsKeno

Eclipse on 20:23 - Aug 12 by BasingstokeBlue

What's a cloud?


They are mythical, something people speak about without evidence they exist

A bit like Piers Morgan being normal or something Silver in the Norwich trophy cabinet

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Eclipse on 20:59 - Aug 12 with 913 viewswischip

Eclipse on 20:23 - Aug 12 by BasingstokeBlue

What's a cloud?


That's where all your selfies live, up there.
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Eclipse on 21:20 - Aug 12 with 839 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

On our walk to a nearby viewing point Miss Slave and I encountered an elderly couple sat in a car awaiting the spectacle. He was a military veteran wearing 5 pairs of sunglasses, they don't make them like that any more!

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Eclipse on 21:54 - Aug 12 with 732 viewsnodge_blue

Eclipse on 21:20 - Aug 12 by BanksterDebtSlave

On our walk to a nearby viewing point Miss Slave and I encountered an elderly couple sat in a car awaiting the spectacle. He was a military veteran wearing 5 pairs of sunglasses, they don't make them like that any more!


I like the way he has deduced that 4 just isn’t enough. Hope hes not now blind.

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Eclipse on 21:56 - Aug 12 with 723 viewsZx1988

Eclipse on 21:54 - Aug 12 by nodge_blue

I like the way he has deduced that 4 just isn’t enough. Hope hes not now blind.


If Hitler didn't do him in, a little bit of sun isn't going to hurt. Just stare it out like an eagle.

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Eclipse on 22:00 - Aug 12 with 696 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

Eclipse on 21:54 - Aug 12 by nodge_blue

I like the way he has deduced that 4 just isn’t enough. Hope hes not now blind.


He offered me a go which I declined, the family in a field further along though using camera film negatives were much more convincing so I relented and very good it was too.
Meteors tonight!

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Eclipse on 07:56 - Aug 13 with 483 viewsStokieBlue

Mid-eclipse with some sunspots:



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Eclipse on 15:22 - Aug 14 with 270 viewsCrawfordsboot

I guess it just wouldn’t be an eclipse if it didn’t!
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