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[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Someone at the office brought a bunch of pairs of eclipse glasses. You cannot see through these things.

 

[ZackM]

Someone at the office brought a bunch of pairs of eclipse glasses. You cannot see through these things.

Same. They block 99.9% of light. Look directly at the sun and it's just an orange ball in a sea of blackness.

 

[CMon85]

That was pretty disappointing and we were at like a 96% coverage. Not nearly as dark as I expected.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Yes this was a non-event to me. I'm going to tell my kids when they grow up that it was the most spectacular thing I ever saw.

 

[torontoduke]

Someone at the office brought a bunch of pairs of eclipse glasses. You cannot see through these things.

Same. They block 99.9% of light. Look directly at the sun and it's just an orange ball in a sea of blackness.

I should have used those to watch the Jays game yesterday.

 

[StopThePumpFakesShav]

Someone at the office brought a bunch of pairs of eclipse glasses. You cannot see through these things.

Yeah, just saw it through someone else's glasses. Interesting, but probably far less cool than if I was in the total eclipse range.

 

[CK86]

I had a different experience than others, it was crazy here in Lincoln. Got dark enough that all the street lights turned on. Very cool.

 

[DurhamSon]

Wasn't that great even at 94%. Oh well the place I was going to travel originally ended up with cloud cover, so whatever.

 

[rome8180]

Chicago was really overcast all day. Kind of ruined it. That said, it definitely got noticeably darker for about an hour.

At work they were playing the CNN live stream on a giant screen, so I just watched that.

 

[kchu1701]

The view from Duke campus today.

 

[physicsfactor]

Looked pretty cool through XRay film that the experts warned us not to use.

 

[deepdarkblue]

 

[aiw]

Sun out until 20 minutes beforehand then all the clouds rolled in. Just as totality occurred, there was a break to thin clouds, so we could see the corona. It was really kinda weird. Tons of people on the beach jumping and screaming (very strange). Got nighttime dark overhead and we could see stars. Looking both north and south down the beach, you could see areas that looked like sunset/dusk. Since we were almost directly in the center of totality, I presume those areas were about 30 miles away.

 

[aiw]

The president looked at it without glasses and apparently aides had to yell at him to put them on. I wish he stared at it long enough to melt his brain.

 

[aiw]

Oh, it's also amazing that 97% of the sun can be covered and it's totally light out.

 

[CK86]

The president looked at it without glasses and apparently aides had to yell at him to put them on. I wish he stared at it long enough to melt his brain.

Someone on twitter mentioned that the best part of Trump blinding himself by looking at the sun would be his denial of being blind.

 

[deepdarkblue]

The president looked at it without glasses and apparently aides had to yell at him to put them on. I wish he stared at it long enough to melt his brain.

 

[aiw]

This is pretty cool

https://qz.com/1058842/solar-eclipse-2017-photo-the-iss-just-pulled-off-the-photobomb-of-a-lifetime/

 

[aiw]

Shep lol

 

[aiw]