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Rescheduling the eclipse (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 37 points 3 months ago

Actually, you'd have to reschedule the moon. β˜οΈπŸ€“

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    [–] 36 points 3 months ago (7 children)
    1. Pretty typical ignorant Dallas Karen energy
    2. I'm more concerned about the 76 thumbs-up
    3. Just FYI, this was the 2017 eclipse and in Dallas it was kinda neat but nowhere near totality.
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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    To add to the FYI, there's a partial eclipse tomorrow evening in Europe. The farther north you are the better you can see it.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    Partial is pointless, really. Which is why I have to hope it'll be visible here in Iceland.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    If you're in Iceland then you're actually in luck, the path of totality does cross over the west of the country. Wikipedia has helpful details of timings and places https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_12,_2026#Eclipse_timing

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Yep! Flew here from Los Angeles, landed on Monday morning.

    Unfortunately, 4:47pm (eta: I was off by an hour, it's 5:47pm, was reading UTC) local time isn't looking good, and it's way too late to try and get a car and drive to the Westfjords

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    • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Or we can move the calendar to make it land on a weekend. Should be easy

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  • [+] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's actually kind of messed up that we don't.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Why?

    The absolutely maximum time you could be in totality during a solar eclipse is 7 minutes and 32 seconds, across a very very narrow path of land.

    Partial eclipses are cool, but not really worth taking any time out of your day for.

    If you’re in the path, taking all of less than 10 minutes to walk outside and see it covers it lol.

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    [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    *Farnsworth voice* Good news everyone! The solar eclipse has been rescheduled to August 12th.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    The answer is that, yes, you can still have the party on the weekend.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I mean, the actual eclipse is on the 12th, so unless this is from a previous solar eclipse, having a solar eclipse party 9 days after the actual eclipse is pretty weird.

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    • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Well what else do you propose, we reschedule the schools or something??

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Yes. She asked that. Absolutely nobody is ever sarcastic on the internet.

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