Thinking About the Solar Eclipse

Like everyone else in the U.S., I’m thinking about the solar eclipse tomorrow so I’m blogging about it today.

We were on our way home this afternoon from our house in the country. The traffic on the north side of the freeway was stunning. Bumper to bumper for miles.

I guess everyone was headed to the Dallas area to get a good view of the solar eclipse.

Unfortunately, according to the weather forecast, we’re expectiving 100% rain tomorrow. I guess the eclipse will look like a rainy dark night.

Of course, the computerized signs on the freeway flashed warnings: “Don’t stop on the highway to watch the eclipse.” That seems odd that the public must be told a common sense bit of advice like that, but we seem to be living in an era when common sense isn’t exactly common.

Oddly enough, according to Leroy Chiao said, “An eclipse is one phenomenon that is actually more impressive from the ground.”

8 ECLIPSE FACTS

1. A solar eclipse only happens in the New Moon lunar phase.

2. The ancient Chinese believed that eclipses were caused by a dragon devouring the Sun.

3. Everyone in the continental U.S. will see a part of the eclipse.

Image by Colin Behrens from Pixabay.

7. Antikythera mechanism, built over 2,000 years ago and discovered in Antikythera, Greece in 1901, could predict eclipses. (I couldn’t find anything that said how that was known since the mechanism looks like a giant rusty disk.

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