OT - Eclipse Tomorrow Will Blot Out the Sun

[Guest guest]

The last paragraph really amazes me and once again puts the world into

perspective!

 

Butch, enjoy it for us Are you again going to be watching it through

Miron Violet bottles?

 

Looks like some other folks here are in prime locations to experience

this too, eh?

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom)

 

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Eclipse Tomorrow Will Blot Out the Sun

By KWASI KPODO (Associated Press Writer)

From Associated Press

March 28, 2006 8:17 AM EST

 

ACCRA, Ghana - Tourists and scientists were gathering at spots around

the world for a solar show - the first total eclipse in years, which

will sweep northeast from Brazil to Mongolia, blotting out the sun

across swathes of of the world's poorest lands.

 

Wednesday's eclipse will blot out the sun in highly populated areas,

including west Africa, where governments scrambled to educate people

about the dangers of looking at the eclipse without proper eye

protection.

 

In Togo, authorities imported hundreds of thousands of pairs of special

glasses that consumers cleared rapidly from shelves in the capital,

Lome. But villagers in the interior won't have access to the eyewear and

officials called on them to stay home.

 

" Please, do not go out and keep your children indoors on solar eclipse

day, " Togo's minister for health said in a message broadcast on state

television.

 

Night will turn to day in the eclipse's route and a corona will glow

around the edges of the moon as it comes between the earth and the sun.

But the corona's light can burn eyes.

 

In Ghana, where the effect will be particularly visible, people were

spending about US$1 (about 80 euro cents) for " solar shades " -

paper-rimmed glasses with dark plastic lenses that resemble eyewear used

for viewing three-dimensional movies.

 

Crowds were anticipated in prime viewing points, among them Accra, the

capital of Ghana, and in Turkey and India. In Ghana, the University of

Cape Coast will broadcast the eclipse simultaneously on the Internet.

 

Tens of thousands of tourists were expected along the Turkish

Mediterranean coast. Astronomers from NASA and Britain's Royal Institute

of Astronomy also were going to an ancient Roman amphitheater in Turkey

to view the phenomenon.

 

The moon is expected to first begin blocking out the sun in the morning

in Brazil before the path of greatest blockage migrates to Africa, then

on to Turkey and up into Mongolia, where it will fade out with the

sunset.

 

Superstition will follow around the world, as it has for generations.

 

One Indian paper advised pregnant women not to go outside during the

eclipse to avoid having a blind baby or one with a cleft lip. Food

cooked before the eclipse should be thrown out afterward because it will

be impure and those who are holding a knife or ax during the eclipse

will cut themselves, the Hindustan Times added.

 

Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I sure hope there will be pictures on the internet so I can see it in Ohio. We

have been having cloudy days here lately. Kat

 

 

>Christine Ziegler <chrisziggy

>Mar 28, 2006 9:16 AM

>

> OT - Eclipse Tomorrow Will Blot Out the Sun

>

>The last paragraph really amazes me and once again puts the world into

>perspective!

>

>Butch, enjoy it for us Are you again going to be watching it through

>Miron Violet bottles?

>

>Looks like some other folks here are in prime locations to experience

>this too, eh?

>

>*Smile*

>Chris (list mom)

>

>All Natural 100% Olive Oil Liquid Soap

>http://www.alittleolfactory.com

>

>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>Eclipse Tomorrow Will Blot Out the Sun

>By KWASI KPODO (Associated Press Writer)

>From Associated Press

>March 28, 2006 8:17 AM EST

>

>ACCRA, Ghana - Tourists and scientists were gathering at spots around

>the world for a solar show - the first total eclipse in years, which

>will sweep northeast from Brazil to Mongolia, blotting out the sun

>across swathes of of the world's poorest lands.

>

>Wednesday's eclipse will blot out the sun in highly populated areas,

>including west Africa, where governments scrambled to educate people

>about the dangers of looking at the eclipse without proper eye

>protection.

>

>In Togo, authorities imported hundreds of thousands of pairs of special

>glasses that consumers cleared rapidly from shelves in the capital,

>Lome. But villagers in the interior won't have access to the eyewear and

>officials called on them to stay home.

>

> " Please, do not go out and keep your children indoors on solar eclipse

>day, " Togo's minister for health said in a message broadcast on state

>television.

>

>Night will turn to day in the eclipse's route and a corona will glow

>around the edges of the moon as it comes between the earth and the sun.

>But the corona's light can burn eyes.

>

>In Ghana, where the effect will be particularly visible, people were

>spending about US$1 (about 80 euro cents) for " solar shades " -

>paper-rimmed glasses with dark plastic lenses that resemble eyewear used

>for viewing three-dimensional movies.

>

>Crowds were anticipated in prime viewing points, among them Accra, the

>capital of Ghana, and in Turkey and India. In Ghana, the University of

>Cape Coast will broadcast the eclipse simultaneously on the Internet.

>

>Tens of thousands of tourists were expected along the Turkish

>Mediterranean coast. Astronomers from NASA and Britain's Royal Institute

>of Astronomy also were going to an ancient Roman amphitheater in Turkey

>to view the phenomenon.

>

>The moon is expected to first begin blocking out the sun in the morning

>in Brazil before the path of greatest blockage migrates to Africa, then

>on to Turkey and up into Mongolia, where it will fade out with the

>sunset.

>

>Superstition will follow around the world, as it has for generations.

>

>One Indian paper advised pregnant women not to go outside during the

>eclipse to avoid having a blind baby or one with a cleft lip. Food

>cooked before the eclipse should be thrown out afterward because it will

>be impure and those who are holding a knife or ax during the eclipse

>will cut themselves, the Hindustan Times added.

>

>Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved.

>

>

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