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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    Here's a shot from NASA of the eclipse beginning to happen. At first glance you might think those are all sun spots. But if you look closer, you'll see that one of them is the International Space Station doing a gangsta photo bomb.
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    I could see that setting up to happen when I was on my way down to Florida from Des Moines. It was through St Louis on I-64 to I-57 down to I-24 in Illinois, and across I-24 to I-75 in Chattanooga. I-24 was basically in the totality band the whole way. I crossed the river into Paducah overnight...
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    The parking lot and surrounding area really filled up with people. Mostly from all up and down the coast. I stood next to a guy and his girlfriend from The Netherlands. This was his 9th eclipse. There was a family from Germany here.
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    The Fake News Depot

    This is hilarious. Fox & Friends Teases ‘Great American Eclipse’ Because…Of Course They Did The comments are brutal.
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    Parking lot lights here at the Pilot came on, too. Didn't exactly ruin it, but didn't go very far in helping enhance the experience. :rolleyes:
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    Hey, believe what you want. I'm not going to use an eclipse as a cudgel either for or against. But an eclipse isn't a mathematical improbability, it's a mathematical certainty. They are utterly predictable decades, even centuries in advance. That's why there are people who have seen 20 or 25 of...
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    The clouds here in this little sliver of South Carolina cooperated in biblical fashion. 90% of the sky was covered in white, puffy clouds, except where the sun was. And it was awesome.
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    With mathematical precision and predictability.
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    Lots of big white puffy clouds here. Some moments the sun is completely unobstructed, other moments it's completely covered. It's gonna be a roll of the dice, I think. This was a few minutes ago.
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    That's where I am, at the Pilot in Bowman, SC. I-26 exit 159. All I can do now is hope the clouds cooperate.
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    The Trump Card...

    Charles Barkley speaks his mind without a filter, much like Trump. And Barkley is right - it doesn't affect the day-to-day lives of black people any more than it does white people. There are a few Confederate statues that I think should come down, because they were erected explicitly as a push...
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    The sun will fry the sensors in a camera if pointed at the sun for very long (more than a few seconds).
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    On TV, streaming on the Internet. NASA has high altitude weather balloons spread across the country so the total eclipse can be seen for hours, instead of minutes. (They did the same thing once with the Concord, where it flew along in the shadow for hours).
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    The Trump Card...

    Monuments (statues, plaques, etc.) go up, and come down, depending on the sentiments and topics of conversation of those involved. When they go up, and come down, it always says more about those putting them up and taking them down that it does about who the monument is to. When you see someone...
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    Yeah, don't look at it. If you have a #14 welding mask, that'll work. Gotta be #14, though. Most aren't. But, you can use a camera obscura (which is what Vermeer used to paint his photo realistic paintings, actually). A camera obscura is simply a pinhole camera. A pinhole camera projects a...
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    A partial solar eclipse is pretty impressive, but a total solar eclipse is life changing. It's a large scale celestial event that is humbling and awe inspiring. You feel connected to the universe in ways got can't imagine. You suddenly get an understanding of enormity of scale and distance...
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    That would have been great. I'm sitting here deep in the quarry of a Cemex plant on the northwest side of Brooksville. They aren't open today, but there's are a handful of people in the power plant. What I've is got is going to the quarry. I called my contact name and he's like 'I ain't...
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    Probably not. I'll most likely deliver (Brooksville) and then head back up towards South Carolina.
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    The Trump Card...

    The Mainstream Media (and The Left) is outraged that Trump supporters aren't outraged at Trump. You'd think that after being as stunned, and as wrong, on election night as they were, they would bother to figure out what the heck is going on, to show a little intellectual curiosity. But no...
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    Solar Eclipse - What are you doing?

    On a load from Des Moines to just outside Tampa. Eclipses are overrated anyway. I don't even want to see it. Stupid eclipse. But, I deliver Sunday morning, and I may very well drive up so South Carolina, along with everyone who lives east of the Appalachians, from Maine to Key West. The...
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