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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 23, 2017 at 10:24 am
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(August 22, 2017 at 10:13 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: BTW, Edmund Halley managed to calculate a ground track for a 1715 eclipse. He nailed it down to within 20 miles and 4 minutes.
An amazing feat considering the difficulty of getting accurate elements to do the tremendous amount of calculations necessary to do it.
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Besides, the dude is also cool because he explored with boats and diving bells and shit.
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 23, 2017 at 11:44 am
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Realizing the state of the art technology in 1715 didn't include much of anything we would recognize as a precise scientific instrument. Ships were still becoming lost at sea and surveying the countryside accurately was barely possible.
That Halley was able to nevertheless generate a ground track map accurate to 20 miles is astonishing.
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 24, 2017 at 12:12 am
(August 23, 2017 at 10:08 am)Jehanne Wrote: Yet another cool article:
https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/status...7414291456
And, don't forgot (read the article) that the next eclipse is on April 8, 2024!
I already told my Texan friends that we're a comin to stay over with the kids.
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 24, 2017 at 1:16 am
If you don't mind a fun ship voyage, there's a nice one in the South Pacific in 2019.
A side trip to Pitcairn Island (YES!! Pitcairn Island !!!!!!!) is possible, weather permitting.
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 24, 2017 at 6:54 am
(August 24, 2017 at 1:16 am)vorlon13 Wrote: If you don't mind a fun ship voyage, there's a nice one in the South Pacific in 2019.
A side trip to Pitcairn Island (YES!! Pitcairn Island !!!!!!!) is possible, weather permitting.
I hope the crew doesn't mutiny.
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 24, 2017 at 9:03 am
LOL, never had much of an urge to go on a cruise of any sort, 'ceptin barely an eclipse cruise, but a stop at Pitcairn Island is quite an inducement.
Bouvet Island would do it too . . . .
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 24, 2017 at 9:25 am
(August 24, 2017 at 1:16 am)vorlon13 Wrote: If you don't mind a fun ship voyage, there's a nice one in the South Pacific in 2019.
A side trip to Pitcairn Island (YES!! Pitcairn Island !!!!!!!) is possible, weather permitting.
I wonder which part of rum, lash, and sodomy will you explore on Pitcairn.
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August 24, 2017 at 9:26 am
horny isolated needful mens, a literal vorlon paradise . . . .
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 24, 2017 at 9:45 am
Saw it once, think I'm done now.
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 24, 2017 at 12:32 pm
(August 24, 2017 at 9:25 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: (August 24, 2017 at 1:16 am)vorlon13 Wrote: If you don't mind a fun ship voyage, there's a nice one in the South Pacific in 2019.
A side trip to Pitcairn Island (YES!! Pitcairn Island !!!!!!!) is possible, weather permitting.
I wonder which part of rum, lash, and sodomy will you explore on Pitcairn.
If you're over 16, I suspect you might not get the sodomy, and since the Pitcairn natives are all Seventh-Day Adventists, it appears that rum might not be in the cards, except for Friday nights at Christian's Cafe and the duty-free Government Store, so if you expect any of the three, it might be the lash.
Also, on the subject of the eclipse, I mentioned trying to glimpse the eclipse bare-eyed to my therapist. She said that, the next time it comes around, she'll buy me a set of eclipse glasses herself so I don't have to do it again.
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