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18.7 Million people watched the Iowa-South Carolina NCAAW title game on Sunday. -- nm - budice Apr 8, 14:38
even if some asshole back in the Middle Ages to thinking that a dragon was swallowing the moon, wait three minutes and nothing bad actually happens - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 14:33 3
- The ones who 'earned' power were the ones who brought the sun back -- nm - JD Apr 8, 14:36 2
  - it's a really tight window to cash in on that grift tho -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 14:37 1
    - Just some cursory search, the longest time of totality possible is 7 minutes 32 seconds. And in a world without clocks? Woof. -- nm - Qale Apr 8, 17:26
Throwing it out there. Eclipse in Australia in 2028. -- nm - Dano Apr 8, 14:26 5
- Hmmmmmmmmm…. -- nm - mara Apr 8, 14:47
- get the guest room ready, wiggums -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 14:34
- Ugh, the journey time. I’d rather go to Gaza. -- nm - Loyola Apr 8, 14:33
- Yeah but - ty97 Apr 8, 14:33 [Attachment] 1
  - While you're looking at the sun, a spider will eat you. -- nm - Mop🧹 Apr 8, 14:33
*Now* the sky clears :/ -- nm - Meg Apr 8, 14:23
Genocide Joe's latest round of student debt relief will give to 30m new loan recipients -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 14:17
I'm saddened that our allien overlords did not use the eclipse to invade us -- nm - eag Apr 8, 14:17 1
- don't blame me i voted for Kodos -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 14:17
David/Kim - any Disney promo codes for end of September/first week of October on your radar? - Beaker 🍻 Apr 8, 14:10 2
- The answer to your second question is yes. I'll have to ask about the first one. If you're booking, I can get you in touch with an agent. -- nm - David Apr 8, 14:15 1
  - looking now. staying offsite at Disney Springs looks waaaaay cheaper currently. Like cheap enough to go that way -- (edited) - Beaker 🍻 Apr 8, 14:19
I'm trapped on a kitchen stool because the roomba is circling it like a hawk -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 13:52 1
- Was the Roomba bit by a vampire? -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 13:55
Totality free small Wendy's frosty with purchase using the app this week. -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 13:50
Quick selection of unprocessed totality photos. More on my instagram and Facebook and more later as we have to hit the road -- (link) - oblique Apr 8, 13:47 7
- These are great! What filter did you use? Or did you remove it during totality? -- nm - Roger More Apr 8, 14:19 1
  - No filter for these -- nm - oblique Apr 8, 14:31
- Stellar! -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 13:59
- Bro. I mean. Damn. Great job. Now I didn't even want to post my lame pictures. -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 13:54 1
  - Thanks.! Learned a lot from 2017 -- nm - oblique Apr 8, 14:32
- Awesome! -- nm - Fuzzy Apr 8, 13:50
- these are terrific -- nm - prayformojo Apr 8, 13:50
Post-processed -- (pic) - Fuzzy Apr 8, 13:40 [Attachment] 2
- geez -- nm - prayformojo Apr 8, 13:47
- Nice! -- nm - mara Apr 8, 13:45
Satellite Loop of Eclipse -- (link) - budice Apr 8, 13:21 2
- Globe view -- (link) - budice Apr 8, 13:27
- CNN live from Cleveland interviewing Dr. Pepper. -- (link) - budice Apr 8, 13:22
Edelweiss soft and white, OMG, wait, no, we're good -- (link) - JD Apr 8, 13:18 1
- "Listen, we need one pilot on the stick at least...we can't both change our shorts at the same time." -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 8, 13:25
lol Knicks gonna Knick -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 13:16 1
- heh. the amazing part is, even if staring at the sun didnt damage your eyes. The eclipse looks better *with* the glasses. -- nm - Jovian Apr 8, 13:18
John Quincy Adams apparently an original eclipse FAFO -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 13:12
How many heists took place while everyone was out? -- nm - LMS Apr 8, 13:11 4
- My library was rip for the picking. Most of the staff, including security, were outside. -- nm - . Apr 8, 13:18 2
  - Oh gosh darn it. -- nm - Book thieves Apr 8, 13:20 1
    - Time enough at la--- oh, an eclipse! Fascinating! -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 14:00
- Welcome to the Purge -- nm - budice Apr 8, 13:12
John Calipari walking his dog this afternoon. Declines to give a comment. -- (link) - budice Apr 8, 13:08 2
- It's a dog. What did they expect? -- nm - JD Apr 8, 13:12 1
  - And Walking a dog in a stroller? -- nm - budice Apr 8, 13:19
-8.43% - Jovian Apr 8, 13:04 2
- 2.375% - Strongbad Apr 8, 13:19 1
  - 3.1250% -- nm - budice Apr 8, 13:20
Dark @ Cleveland Guardians stadium -- (link) - budice Apr 8, 13:01
Solar panel data -- (pic) - Reagen Apr 8, 13:00 [Attachment] 1
- I was going to wait a little bit to check mine but yeah mine's pretty much the same. -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 13:15
Flying a charter jet does not get you that much more totality time, the NBC jet got a little more than 4 minutes, a concord jet at max speed got 72m -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 13:00
What do you call a cowboy putting on clothes? - crash davis 😺 Apr 8, 12:59 4
- a Texan about to depart Maralargo? -- nm - Jovian Apr 8, 13:01 3
  - one day you need to charge Trump rent for living in your head -- nm - crash davis 😺 Apr 8, 13:04 2
    - *nods* - David Apr 8, 13:09
    - f**k that f**k - Jovian Apr 8, 13:05
Today 50 years ago, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves broke Babe Ruth's all-time home run record. -- nm - Jovian Apr 8, 12:57 1
- and now that baseball has returned. -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 12:58
At least I have this from 2017. -- (link) - Meg Apr 8, 12:53 [flickr]
Okay. That. Was. Amazing. I thought Nathan was going to cry. It’s apparently the greatest moment of his life! -- nm - kelly Apr 8, 12:52 11
- I cried. It was amazing -- nm - oblique Apr 8, 13:48 1
  - Apparently I giggle — happened both times. -- nm - mara Apr 8, 13:49
- Oh, that’s great! My mom enjoyed it too. -- nm - mara Apr 8, 13:46
- Yay! -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Apr 8, 13:43
- That's awesome! I remember one fondly from when I was a kid - JaxSean Apr 8, 13:41
- I love that it made him so happy -- nm - Pippy: Apr 8, 13:31
- Yay that's awesome -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 13:14
- sweet. -- nm - mud Apr 8, 13:05
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Apr 8, 12:59
- Nice! -- nm - David Apr 8, 12:58
- 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 8, 12:52
so did the eclipse expose any of the following: Aliens? the flat earth? Liberals? the biden weather control ballons? the biblical end of days? - tRuMaN Apr 8, 12:50 2
- The Cabal activated their Atmosphere Control machines to make the clouds hide that we live on a flat earth - decline Apr 8, 12:59
- Well know what it meant for Republicans. Not sure about everyone else. -- (pic) - Jovian Apr 8, 12:53 [Attachment]
I accidentally told someone that I hope they enjoy the pandemic. Oops. -- nm - Krusty Apr 8, 12:48 1
- Merry Christmas and a herpes new year! -- nm - Loyola Apr 8, 12:49
Blackstone is looking to buy Jersey Mikes - decline Apr 8, 12:46 5
- "Even if his business was sold, Cancro also told Restaurant Business he would want to remain active in the company." well that's the real trick now -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 13:44
- As long as the quality doesn't change. They're by far the better sandwich shop around here. - sycor covering up the bite mark Apr 8, 12:48 3
  - bwahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahah! -- (edited) - ty97 Apr 8, 13:40 1
    - You and znu are totality bumming me out man. -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 13:51
  - What could go wrong? It’s not like private equity firms have ever insisted on anything but the highest operating standards for their companies -- nm* - znufrii Apr 8, 13:00
Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom! -- nm - Marvin the Martian Apr 8, 12:43
In training at work today and convinced them to have a break during the totality....eclipse that was super cool!! -- nm - Walt_Disney Apr 8, 12:39 3
- It went from like noon sun to about 15 mins after sunset within five mins. All the street and house lights came on. -- nm - Walt_Disney Apr 8, 12:42 2
  - That's how it was in '17. So eerie and so cool. -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 12:43 1
    - And all the birds go quiet. -- nm - na-Baron Apr 8, 12:47
I'm so glad we saw it in Nashville in 2017. Today 15 minutes in the hotel parking lot looking at clouds in the dark :/ -- nm - Meg Apr 8, 12:39 6
- Sigh, all week they were saying it would be clear in NY and cloudy in Texas -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 12:53
- Niagara Falls are still super cool though. -- nm - Qale Apr 8, 12:52
- Now go on Maid-of-the-Mist! -- nm - decline Apr 8, 12:47 1
  - Couldn't get near it yesterday. Roads were closed everywhere we went :( -- nm - Meg Apr 8, 12:51
- Oh no! Sorry to hear that. -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 12:42
- rats -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 8, 12:40
I did feel kind of bad. About 4 minutes before totality the mailman brought our mail. -- nm - Spawn Apr 8, 12:38 1
- And it was just coupons for Burger King. -- nm - Loyola Apr 8, 12:41
Da Boss meets Da Fonz -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 12:37
“tell Calipari it was me” -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 12:34
If you arre hungry after, here's a bunch of chains with eclipse offers, BK and Jack BOGO etc -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 8, 12:32 1
- We lost most of our JitB when the franchisee went under. It was like a repeat of the Wendy's situation. -- nm - na-Baron Apr 8, 12:39
Have they no poets to interview on CNN? Guy is bounding about just yapping his head off. -- nm - Loyola Apr 8, 12:32
I missed it. -- (pic) - Beryllium Apr 8, 12:31 [Attachment]
Straight out of camera -- (pic) - Fuzzy Apr 8, 12:30 [Attachment] 5
- Impressive. -- nm - David Apr 8, 12:47
- Nice! My filter makes everything orange instead of white. And I'm okay with that. -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 12:41
- wow -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 8, 12:41
- Nice! -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 12:36
- coooool -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 12:33
I'm waiting for Andie's post-event cemetery report -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 8, 12:29 4
- First the horror movie, now the cemetery? - Spawn Apr 8, 12:34
- All quiet here. Almost too quiet -- nm - JD Apr 8, 12:34
- braaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnns -- nm - Zombandie Apr 8, 12:30
- zombies alive -- nm - budice Apr 8, 12:30
That was terrific. While we were waiting in the driveway for Mac to get home, it looked like the clouds cover was pretty bad. But with the glasses on, - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 8, 12:28 2
- Totality in 2017 was so dramatic. This was still pretty neat. - na-Baron Apr 8, 12:35 1
  - Totality was like seeing U2 at the Sphere, everything else will pale in comparison. -- nm - Spawn Apr 8, 12:36
Oh there’s people on a mountaintop in Vermont about to experience the eclipse. -- nm - Loyola Apr 8, 12:26 1
- Followed by a marriage proposal. -- nm - Meg Apr 8, 12:37
Too many damn clouds -- (pic) - decline Apr 8, 12:25 [Attachment] 4
- yep. they rolled in strong once totality was about to occur. - Jovian Apr 8, 12:26 2
  - I thought it was supposed to be that clouds went away during an eclipse. That stinks -- nm - sycor covering up the bite mark Apr 8, 12:50 1
    - I think the sudden cooling causes condensation, the NBC jet got some icing -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 12:56
- Zoomed in -- (pic) - decline Apr 8, 12:25 [Attachment]
Anyway: Spain 2026 (maybe) -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 12:25 3
- I’m in. Could go to Bilbao too. -- nm - Loyola Apr 8, 12:26
- . -- (pic) - ty97 Apr 8, 12:26 [Attachment] 1
  - Let’s go to the north coast. It’s not as hot there. -- nm - Loyola Apr 8, 12:28
Next accessible total eclipse Aug 2026 hitting W Iceland and N Spain. Make your plans now. -- nm - na-Baron with 100 pairs of shades Apr 8, 12:24 2
- Then again in Aug 2027 for S Spain, Sicily, and the north coast of Africa. -- nm - na-Baron with 100 pairs of shades Apr 8, 12:28 1
  - Alaska is March of 2033. May have to do that one. -- nm - Spawn Apr 8, 12:37
I figured with 85% coverage and solid cloud cover, it would be darker than a normal day. I was wrong. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 8, 12:22 7
- We were at 94% (with no clouds) and it wasn't really noticeably darker. Maybe like the sunshine got a bit hazier. -- nm - pmb Apr 8, 12:36
- 100% here but all the horizons were light, so it was dark but not *dark*. -- nm - Spawn Apr 8, 12:33
- 99% was pretty cool. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Apr 8, 12:25
- 60% coverage here (no clouds) and was surprised how it got minimally darker. - ty97 Apr 8, 12:24
- The view from tacoma -- (pic) - zeitgeist Apr 8, 12:24 [Attachment]
- It did get a bit darker here, but it was minimal. We got wetter from rain drops than darker from the eclipse. -- nm* - David Apr 8, 12:23 1
  - Yeah, I hope other ST folks had better than this. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 8, 12:24
inbetween the moon and you, the angels get a better view of the crumbling wall between wrong and right... -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 12:22 1
- when you get caught between the moon and new york city -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 12:24
Okay, how many of you were just bitten by vampires? -- nm - David Apr 8, 12:21 7
- Qale has been a vampire for quite some time now. -- nm - Qale Apr 8, 12:55
- just nibbled by a vampire. I feel cheated. -- nm - Pippy: Apr 8, 12:48
- Not me. -- nm - sycor covering up the bite mark Apr 8, 12:44
- the real question should be, how many of you vampires were just bitten by non-vampires. - tRuMaN Apr 8, 12:26
- there aren't that many vampires, you were more likely to have your wallet pickpocked by some crackhead while you were looking up -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 12:23
- Better question: How many of you are vampires that just bit people? -- nm* - ty97 Apr 8, 12:21 1
  - That's entrapment, Ty. -- nm - David Apr 8, 12:23

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