Eclipse

[Robinjopo1]

Some illiterate goob just posted asking when our town was going to celebrate the eclipse and surely they wouldn't do it during school hours.
Are there really people that dumb? Yes, I said dumb for lack of a better word.

 

[Maverick]

Oregon and Washington going nuts over this, motels are all booked, they expecting highways to come to a complete stop, commerce to take a big hit, some businesses to close that day, local Oregon news thinks Oregon owns the eclipse. Local tv even had psychologist on talking about depression being brought on by the eclipse while others talk about the emotional effect it will have on animals, police were asking people not to shoot at the moon, I don't know where the hell that came out of or even why they would think people will shoot the poor moon. I'm like g'damn, what the hell is wrong with these humans.

 

[Psalm7]

I'm interested enough to make a attempt to watch it .

 

[jontte]

good luck to you all over there

 

[Robinjopo1]

Probably some religions are thinking this is a major sign of some apocalyptic basis. I have my glasses. We will only see it got 3 minutes at most

 

[Maverick]

Nothing planned here, I might go out on the porch, sit in my chair and light the pipe, enjoy the quietness of the brief night.

 

[DrPrepper]

Oregon and Washington going nuts over this, motels are all booked, they expecting highways to come to a complete stop, commerce to take a big hit, some businesses to close that day, local Oregon news thinks Oregon owns the eclipse. Local tv even had psychologist on talking about depression being brought on by the eclipse while others talk about the emotional effect it will have on animals, police were asking people not to shoot at the moon, I don't know where the hell that came out of or even why they would think people will shoot the poor moon. I'm like g'damn, what the hell is wrong with these humans.

I had to read your post about 3 times before I could accept that I was actually reading it correctly. This is just insane. ....insane...

 

[Maverick]

I had to read your post about 3 times before I could accept that I was actually reading it correctly. This is just insane. ....insane...

A very very small sampling out of Oregon

2017 Oregon Solarfest Summer Festival
https://www.facebook.com/events/1022506137785748/

Oregon Eclipse
http://oregoneclipse2017.com/

oregon star party
http://oregonstarparty.org/

Small town GoFundMe for port-a-potties
http://www.opb.org/radio/article/oregon-solar-eclipse-small-towns-preparation-spray/

 

[jontte]

this will prolly end up as "the end of the world" thingy for some religious nut job,just hope not another jonestown...
whish I could see it too..

it would be nice for a change if they declared;paradise is coming

 

[DrPrepper]

A very very small sampling out of Oregon

2017 Oregon Solarfest Summer Festival
https://www.facebook.com/events/1022506137785748/

Oregon Eclipse
http://oregoneclipse2017.com/

oregon star party
http://oregonstarparty.org/

Small town GoFundMe for port-a-potties
http://www.opb.org/radio/article/oregon-solar-eclipse-small-towns-preparation-spray/

I can't even think of where to begin...
Gofundme for port a potties? They need 13K...for port a potties?!?!
The ranchers are turning their land into campsites for hundreds of dollars (hundreds with and S)?!?!?
One convenience store, and the town's mayor doubles as the only physician's assistant. ....
There is no way! no way! you could get me out there. They are asking for TROUBLE!
snakes, sewage, large population, lack of resources etc. etc. etc.
But they think it will be one big party that will get people interested in science...
This is just wild! Like Woodstock for nighttime stargazing hippies.

 

[jontte]

I sure as hell wouldn't wanna be a LEO or paramedic there...it's way beyond sanity.
or they could take it as dress rehearsal for SHTF

 

[Brent S]

I have a couple good welding masks, so will try to see it if I'm near the shop. Do I think much of it, honestly, not a big deal.

 

[DrHenley]

police were asking people not to shoot at the moon, I don't know where the hell that came out of or even why they would think people will shoot the poor moon. I'm like g'damn, what the hell is wrong with these humans.

That tradition goes waaaaaaaaaaaay back...

Eclipse of the Sun
Blamed on Black Squirrel​

• 
  Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians by John R. Swanton, pages 210-211.
  
  In Choctaw history, solar eclipses were attributed to black squirrels, or a black squirrel, supposed to be eating the luminary, and they must be driven off if mankind were still to enjoy the heat and light. Cushman says: The Choctaw attributed an eclipse of the sun to a black squirrel, whose eccentricities often led it into mischief, and, among other things, that of trying to eat up the sun at different intervals. When thus inclined, they believed, which was confirmed by long experience, that the only effective means to prevent so fearful a catastrophe befalling the world as the blotting out of that indispensable luminary, was to favor the little, black epicure with a first-class scare; therefore, whenever he manifested an inclination to indulge in a meal on the sun, every ingenuity was called into requisition to give him a genuine fright so that he would be induced, at least, to postpone his meal on the sun at that particular time and seek a lunch elsewhere. As soon, therefore, as the sun began to draw its lunar veil over its face, the cry was heard from every mount from the Dan to the Beersheba of their then wide extended territory, echoing from hill to dale, “Funi lusa hushi umpa! Funi lusa hushi umpa,” according to our phraseology, the black squirrel is eating the sun! Then and there was heard a sound of tumult by day in the Choctaw Nation for the space of an hour or two. Far exceeding that said to have been heard by night in Belgium’s Capital, and sufficient in the conglomeration of discordant tones terrific, if heard by the distant, little, fastidious squirrel, to have made him lose forever afterward all relish for a mess of suns for an early or late dinner.
  
  The shouts of the women and children mingling with the ringing of discordant bells as the vociferous pounding and beating of earsplitting tin pans and cups mingling in “wild confusion worse confounded,” yet in sweet unison with a first-class orchestra of yelping, howling, barking dogs gratuitously thrown in by the innumerable and highly excited curs, produced a din, which even a “Funi lusa,” had he heard it, could scarcely have endured even to have indulged in a nibble or two of the sun, though urged by the demands of a week’s fasting.
  
  But during the wild scene the men were not idle spectators, or indifferent listeners. Each stood a few paces in front of his cabin door with no outward manifestation of excitement whatever – so characteristic of the Indian warrior but with his trusty rifle in hand, which so oft had proved a friend sincere in many hours of trial, which he loaded and fired in rapid succession at the distant, devastating squirrel, with the same coolness and calm deliberation that he did when shooting at his game. More than once have I witnessed the fearful yet novel scene. When it happened to be the time of a total eclipse of the sun, a sufficient evidence that the little, black epicure meant business in regard to having a square meal, though it took the whole sun to furnish it, then indeed there were sounds of revelry and tumult unsurpassed by any ever heard before, either in “Belgium” or elsewhere.
  
  Then the women shrieked and redoubled their efforts upon the tin pans, which, under the desperate blows, strained every vocal organ to do its utmost and whole duty in loud response, while the excited children screamed and beat their tin cups, and the sympathetic dogs (whose name was legion) barked and howled – all seemingly determined not to fall the one behind the other in their duty since the occasion demanded it; while the warriors still stood in profound and meditative silence, but firm and undaunted, as they quickly loaded and fired their rifles, each time taking deliberate aim, if perchance the last shot might prove the successful one; then, as the moon’s shadow began to move from the disk of the sun, the joyful shout was heard above the mighty din “Funi-lusa-osh mahlatah! ” The black squirrel is frightened.
  
  But the din remained unabated until the sun again appeared in its usual splendor, and all nature again assumed its harmonious course.

 

[jontte]

that was interesting

 

[Arcticdude]

With the dry conditions you can expect to see a lot of new fires started.

 

[Brent S]

I don't know how well the eclipse will be viewable with the weather but I do know I was really disappointed with the perseid meteor showers this year. We were going thru the best meteor event all last week, culminating this past weekend. It rained and had cloud cover every day. I didn't see a single flash in the sky.

 

[Maverick]

I don't know how well the eclipse will be viewable with the weather but I do know I was really disappointed with the perseid meteor showers this year. We were going thru the best meteor event all last week, culminating this past weekend. It rained and had cloud cover every day. I didn't see a single flash in the sky.

Least from my end, even if we don't see it least we will experience the darkness from it. The news here brought this whole thing to a frenzy so a part of me hope we will have heavy cloud cover, I know, that's bad of me

 

[Robinjopo1]

I'm at the point that is it happens after 10 pm, I'm in bed. Can't see the meteors during the day.

 

[Brent S]

I'm at the point that is it happens after 10 pm, I'm in bed. Can't see the meteors during the day.

I'm in bed early too but wake before dawn and start the day off relaxing in the hottub with a cup of coffee every day. I see shooting stars all the time, but once a year I usually see more than a dozen each morning during this event.

 

[Brent S]

Least from my end, even if we don't see it least we will experience the darkness from it. The news here brought this whole thing to a frenzy so a part of me hope we will have heavy cloud cover, I know, that's bad of me

Yeah, there going nuts here too, selling tee shirts and all kinds of junk souvenirs. I'm sick of all the commercialism over everything.