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« Last post by Jenett on April 08, 2024, 09:09:39 pm »
The best way to describe my own reaction is "shook" (Even though I knew, intellectually, what was going to happen). Also, photographs do not do totality justice.
The photos are great, but there's so much more going on that I didn't understand until experiencing it. The way the colours change as the light shifts! The 360 degree sunset! The temperature! It's a full body sensory experience in a way the photos can't transmit at all. [Fixing quote code - SP]
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« Last post by Sefiru on April 08, 2024, 06:09:38 pm »
And the weather forecast is looking promising for northern New England and Canada!
Mother Nature is a fricking tease, that's what! Morning: mostly clear; I leave for the park, clouds roll in; eclipse just starting, a clear patch again; will-they-or-won't-they clouds leading up to totality. And just in time, clouds cleared up just enough to see the main event  The best way to describe my own reaction is "shook" (Even though I knew, intellectually, what was going to happen). Also, photographs do not do totality justice.
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« Last post by SirPalomides on April 08, 2024, 09:49:17 am »
Seen while on the supermarket checkout line the other day:
She actually reminds me a lot of Mater Lachrymarum from Dario Argento's Inferno
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« Last post by SunflowerP on April 07, 2024, 10:36:20 pm »
After the Los Angeles Northridge earthquake in 1994, the observatory there received tons of calls about things in the sky - people legit DID NOT KNOW stars were even a thing. Sure they did. They just didn't know about the ones that live in the sky, rather than in, say, Malibu. <runs away very fast, laughing> (Alas, your corrected link, while it does work for going to the article, is paywalled.) Sunflower
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« Last post by SunflowerP on April 07, 2024, 10:28:22 pm »
Oh yeah it's pretty bad. From that thread you linked, re: not knowing about the constellation Orion -
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« Last post by atr on April 06, 2024, 07:26:15 pm »
Oh yeah it's pretty bad. From that thread you linked, re: not knowing about the constellation Orion -
After the Los Angeles Northridge earthquake in 1994, the observatory there received tons of calls about things in the sky - people legit DID NOT KNOW stars were even a thing : http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/04/local/la-me-light-pollution-20110104/2.
I recently posted in a popular Pagan Facebook forum, telling people to don't worry, enjoy the awesome display of power that's being shown to you, gather some moon energy if that's your thing etc and the majority of replies were... not good.
It seems that many of the topics and themes in the linked article have spread from Christianity over to the Pagan community - some are even parroting the same talking points verbatim.
It'd be one thing if they were saying that eclipses mean X in their belief system, or they have a history of Y. But no, they're talking about NASA, the rockets, CERN etc
It really shows just how strong of an influence Christian Fundamentalist culture has in the US. Even people who profess to be Pagans (at least online), in a Pagan forum, are parroting Christian Fundamentalist talking points without much thought.
Whoops, LA times link is broken. Here's a working link: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-jan-04-la-me-light-pollution-20110104-story.html
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« Last post by atr on April 06, 2024, 07:02:42 pm »
<follows Sefiru's and Jenett's links, and some other links from those>
  
The depths of some folks' scientific illiteracy is breathtaking. Makes the anecdotes in this thread from years back seem minor.
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Oh yeah it's pretty bad. From that thread you linked, re: not knowing about the constellation Orion - We who are nature-based pagans are particularly attuned to the natural world, granted. But are there really folks wandering around who are that disconnected to the universe they inhabit?
After the Los Angeles Northridge earthquake in 1994, the observatory there received tons of calls about things in the sky - people legit DID NOT KNOW stars were even a thing : http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/04/local/la-me-light-pollution-20110104/2. (Not exactly a festival, but certainly an event!)
Via Wonkette: Will Monday's Eclipse Bring The Rapture, Human Sacrifices, Or Demons?
On a more mundane level, Niagara Falls has pre-emptively declared a state of emergency , and my own city is battening down as if a hurricane is on its way ... a hurricane of tourists, that is.
I had signed up for one of the organised events, but now a local bridge is shut down for emergency repairs so getting there and back would be *impractical*. So I'll be heading to a smaller venue. I guess I could just step outside, but I do really want to make an outing of it. Not expecting to see any demons, through.
I recently posted in a popular Pagan Facebook forum, telling people to don't worry, enjoy the awesome display of power that's being shown to you, gather some moon energy if that's your thing etc and the majority of replies were... not good. It seems that many of the topics and themes in the linked article have spread from Christianity over to the Pagan community - some are even parroting the same talking points verbatim. It'd be one thing if they were saying that eclipses mean X in their belief system, or they have a history of Y. But no, they're talking about NASA, the rockets, CERN etc It really shows just how strong of an influence Christian Fundamentalist culture has in the US. Even people who profess to be Pagans (at least online), in a Pagan forum, are parroting Christian Fundamentalist talking points without much thought. [Adding quote code to quote from archive thread - SP]
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« Last post by SunflowerP on April 06, 2024, 10:35:21 am »
Via Wonkette: Will Monday's Eclipse Bring The Rapture, Human Sacrifices, Or Demons?
<follows Sefiru's and Jenett's links, and some other links from those> The depths of some folks' scientific illiteracy is breathtaking. Makes the anecdotes in this thread from years back seem minor. Sunflower Sunflower
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« Last post by Altair on April 06, 2024, 07:04:42 am »
(Not exactly a festival, but certainly an event!)
I'm hopping a plane in a few hours to Texas; I could have gone to Buffalo here in my own state, but considering my allergy to cold and snow, it seemed a poor choice for early April. That, and it seemed all too likely to have cloud cover. (Though now the cloud cover forecast for Texas is kind of iffy.) I had a very mundane 60th birthday last year, since--planning ahead--I saw that the eclipse was the day before my birthday this year. So the 61st will be celebrated as the milestone birthday, with a handful of friends joining me in Texas. Meanwhile, yesterday NYC was rocked by an earthquake--not a little shudder, but an honest-to-god earthquake!--so obviously the apocalypse is nigh. (I spent the whole winter in Southern California and got nuthin'; I'm back in NYC for a day, and my whole building is shaking and swaying.) Of course, the usual suspects informed us with absolute certainty that it was God's warning for us Northeasterners to abandon our trans-loving gay-coddling abortion-hugging ways. Between the quake and the impending eclipse, they're ovulating over the specter of doom.
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« Last post by Jenett on April 05, 2024, 11:10:39 pm »
(Not exactly a festival, but certainly an event!)
I'm rather fond of Katie Mack's response to some of the "It will last for DAYS" thing. (She's an astrophysicist and science communicator. USA Today asked her to comment, and quoted her in a pull quote saying "%u2018Nothing in this video is even adjacent to reality,' says expert". She added in the thread on Bluesky about it "Normally I aim for a degree of decorum in my comments to the press but in this case I suppose %u201Cnothing in this video is even adjacent to reality%u201D is actually pretty fair." I did actually really like Hank Green's video (youtube.com/watch?v=nOIME1ENKqI) on why the eclipse is more likely to be dangerous (spoiler: we are looking at the sun more than we normally do, and we are probably driving to get there.) I am taking a trip to get to totality (about 5 hours from where I live) and I am super excited for it. Going with friends, so also time with them, and the prospects of a fun and manageable road trip with one of them. (We have an Interesting Plan for the way back). And the weather forecast is looking promising for northern New England and Canada!
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