OT: Eclipse Today Blotted Out the Sun

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Hey y'all,

 

Its over .. I won't get to see it again for 60 years. I reckon then I

gotta find me some real backward place and tell folks I'm gonna blot out

the sun if'n they don't straighten up and fly right .. course, they

ain't gonna believe me. But after it goes down I'll tell'em they gotta

make some changes fast or I'll blot it out forever. ;-)

 

The last time we had a total eclipse here in Turkey was 11 August 1999

http://www.hermit.org/Eclipse1999/

 

Six days later .. on 17 August 1999 .. we had the biggest quake in many

years .. 7.4 magnitude .. over 22,000 people died. I worked S & R on

that one for a week. Some of the more backward Imams then told folks it

was punishment for this and that. :-(

 

On the other hand .. I have recently read of a theory that activation of

quakes might well have something to do with solar activity .. I can

think of a few variables that might eventually show that there is some

fact to this theory .. can't remember who or where the research was

going down but it was a relatively logical presentation of data. Butch

 

 

>> Butch, enjoy it for us

>

> Doing it right now .. as I write this. Its a bit after 1300 here now

> and dark in the house now .. no way could one read in this light .. and

> the eclipse is not yet complete.

>

>> Are you again going to be watching it through Miron Violet bottles?

>

> Matter of fact .. got three 120 ml bottles out .. Tanya and her mother

> and I are watching from the balcony .. or at least I will be when I hit

> send for this post. ;-)

>

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

>> this too, eh?

>

> Its big news .. lots of experiments and research going down now .. and

> folks being interviewed on every TV channel.

>

> Gotta run now .. its getting mighty dark.

>

>> *Smile*

>> Chris (list mom)

>>

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> Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-aT.com

>

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>> 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.