Eclipse '17, US edition
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http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/maps.htm
Interactive map...
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The site design feels very 15 years ago. Like I stepped into a time capsule to the early 00s!
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Wow! A reason to go to Salem, Oregon!
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Nah, still not.
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Meh. I prefer IDEA.
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Eclipse + Vrapper
(Bonus 00s site design)
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And in preparation for the 2026 elcipse, the National Grid in the UK have already started worrying about it...
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@pjh said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
And in preparation for the 2026 elcipse, the National Grid in the UK have already started worrying about it...
How the fuck do you people deal with nighttime?
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@weng said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
How the fuck do you people deal with nighttime?
Gas, coal and nuclear at the moment...
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@weng said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
How the fuck do you people deal with nighttime?
Gin, if I understand correctly.
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@boomzilla said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
@weng said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
How the fuck do you people deal with nighttime?
Gin, if I understand correctly.
That, or cheap lager
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@raceprouk said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
@boomzilla said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
@weng said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
How the fuck do you people deal with nighttime?
Gin, if I understand correctly.
That, or cheap lager
Personally, cheap wine followed by cheap vodka.
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@weng said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
@pjh said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
And in preparation for the 2026 elcipse, the National Grid in the UK have already started worrying about it...
How the fuck do you people deal with nighttime?
By sleeping.
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Really, though... in the nighttime, when most people are sleeping, the power demand drops.
Smart Meters - Executive Summary - smartmeters.vic.gov.au
Daytime energy usage is notably higher than nighttime usage, except in the case of dual-element meters which are installed to allow the power utility to sell electricity at a cheaper rate overnight -- to encourage customers to use more of their electricity during the night, thereby reducing the load during the day. As such, those meters typically show a spike in usage during the night, although if you ignore that spike there's still a lower usage at night (before and after the spike) than there is during the daytime. Despite those customers who actually are using more energy during the night, the average system load (green line in both graphs) still shows that the energy usage is significantly lower overnight than it is during the day. The graphs also show some interesting differences between residential customers (which typically peaks in the midmorning and evening) and SME customers whose usage is highest in the morning but still fairly high through the entire day's business hours and dropping rapidly once people go home for the day.
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Bonnie Tyler Will Sing Total Eclipse of the Heart During the Eclipse
The singer will celebrate the astronomical event like only she can
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NASA will stream incredible 360-degree video of the eclipse — and you can watch it live on Facebook
When you open Facebook on Monday, a special message about the 2017 total solar eclipse will promote NASA's live-streaming video feeds.
Is it just me, or is it kind of dumb to broadcast a 360-degree livestream of an event during which people's interest will primarily be fixated on a particular small area of the sky?
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@anotherusername you're missing the point - in the days following the eclipse, people will look through the crowd to find the stupid reactions and other random stupid things stupid people do.
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@weng said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
How the fuck do you people deal with nighttime?
By hiding underground until the Germans stop bombing.
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@anotherusername said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
Is it just me, or is it kind of dumb to broadcast a 360-degree livestream of an event during which people's interest will primarily be fixated on a particular small area of the sky?
I went to the Smithsonian on their "Eclipse Day" and they had NASA guys speaking there. They said (from first hand experiences) that you should focus on more than just the sun and moon and take in the full experience.
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Today is truly a dark day in America.
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I've been eclipsed for 10 minutes now and it's just as bright.
Boo.
I want my money back.
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@blakeyrat We're way too north for this shit. I'm watching NASA's feed instead.
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@yamikuronue Pfft. What would NASA know about the sun, they've never even landed on it. Lamers.
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I am using the sophisticated NASA method of "when my oven timer dings I'll be maximal eclipsed, and I can go out with my old bank statement with a hole poked in it and project the eclipse on this Acer laptop box."
NASA can't beat that level of technical sophistication. I even poked the hole in the bank statement using a $0.99 travel sewing kit. Take that, NASA.
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@yamikuronue said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
@blakeyrat We're way too north for this shit. I'm watching NASA's feed instead.
It looks like you're going to get about a 95% eclipse.
https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/nasa_eclipse_map.jpg
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@masonwheeler Nah, I'm north of Seattle. Not quite at the 90% line but close to it. It'll be like 91%.
I'm just glad the fog cleared, really. I expected it to be a greyish blur.
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@blakeyrat That was a reply to Yami, who's in Ohio :P
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@masonwheeler Bah it had my name in it. This forum's confusing.
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on station awaiting less sun
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If you're tempted to play the crappy Total Eclipse of the Heart, I beg you to instead play the far-superior Black Hole Sun.
Thank you.
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*sigh*
A bunch of people from work are outside looking up at the sky already; it's not going to actually be properly eclipsed for another hour yet.
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@blakeyrat said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
I beg you to instead play the far-superior Black Hole Sun.
I couldn't find where they freak out watching the video, so enjoy this instead:
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Let's see how long I can listen to the idiots on NASA's stream until I hit mute.
Still 35 minutes or so until I'll go out and see it.
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@yamikuronue said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
@blakeyrat We're way too north for this shit. I'm watching NASA's feed instead.
I'm trying to, but there's like a 2 second delay in the audio.
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@anotherusername said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
I'm trying to, but there's like a 2 second delay in the audio.
Seriously, is that everywhere? I was hoping that was just the Twitch.TV feed.
Obligatory "we can put a man on the moon but we can't sync stream sound" complaint.
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@blakeyrat NASA's stream is hilariously incompetent, I'm enjoying watching this. Terrible sound sync, 45 seconds of dead air, commentators not talking when they go live, etc.
Even Ben L's local news could do better than this. And NASA actually has a budget!
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@blakeyrat said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
And NASA actually has a budget!
i assume they're using the budget for science things instead f livestreams.
.... right?
right?!
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@accalia Considering the quality of their livestream, I FUCKING HOPE SO.
I don't understand how nobody's noticed the sound sync issues, like are they not actually watching the end-product at all?
EDIT: live update, it's starting to get noticably dimmer around here. The sun reflection is no longer perfectly lined-up with my car window, so I actually have to get up and look now.
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@blakeyrat said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
NASA's stream is hilariously incompetent, I'm enjoying watching this.
That's why Iw as recommending it XD
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I haven't really gotten much work done anyway, so I took the time to make a cardboard box viewer, upgrading my viewing experience.
Also the NASA stream just died completely on Twitch, haha.
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What's with all this hysteria around the eclipse? With AMA-s and live commentary and people driving 100-s of miles to see it and everything?
I've seen the total solar eclipse in 1999 and it was meh.
Total Solar Eclipse on August 11, 1999
Total solar eclipse on Wednesday, August 11, 1999: Where and when is the Sun eclipse visible? Path map, animation, and local times.
Play videogames. "Oh, it's starting?" I hear animals kind of freaking out for a bit, then they relax. I take one of those soldering visors, look up. It's a blackened sun. "OK, cool". Go inside, play some more games.
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2017 Solar Eclipse News and Articles
Aug. 21, 2017 marked a unique opportunity for scientists in the contiguous U.S. — for the first time in nearly a century, a total solar eclipse would sweep coast to coast, providing scientists under the path of totality with a rare chance to study the Sun and Earth in uncommon ways. Read the...
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the apocalypse has begun and it's cloudy where I live
Edit: I am in San Francisco and it's kind of raining, all hell has broken loose
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Took a peek. It's begun, but it's still just a very tiny sliver occluded so far.
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10% of the sun is still a lot of sun. Like, it looks like 8 PM, not like "midnight".
I tried taking photos through my cardboard viewer, but the CCD blooms-out the brightness and it's just a roundish light-dot. Oh well.
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@cartman82 said in Eclipse '17, US edition:
It's a blackened sun. "OK, cool"
Watching the stream, the totality bit (which you can look at with your bare eyes) looks really cool. that's about it.
