#1 22-08-17 20:39:51

viva

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TEOTS magic 2017

oh my god, did any one else see the eclipse totality?

oh my god!

_hyperballad_

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I so wanted to get amongst this Eclipse! Were you at the amazing festival in Oregon?

2012 eclipse was a life changing experience for me, did you absolutely fucking love it?

It's a really difficult thing to explain in words but I will never, ever forget the feeling inside my body & mind when the eclipse reached totality. Bonkers amazing!

Big love to you x

Tuxxie

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I was in the Midwest US, just north of total eclipse. But alas... it was cloudy here. It reminded me of a dark, stormy day.

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bing1957

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Yep! I drove down to a state park in southern Illionois  that morning and it was awesome!! It was like someone slowly turning down a dimmer switch and then slamming it off! I would submit a selfie from there but my tech know is not so good!

Howland

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I missed this one, but I did see the one in, um, 1970 (I was a kid!), and it was totally amazing. First more and more of the moon covers the sun, which is cool enough, but as it reaches totality you can literally see the moon's shadow racing across the ground toward you (we were out in a field), and then just as it reaches you, bam! the stars come out all at once, and where the sun was there's just a black disk with fire streaming out from it on all sides (the sun's corona). We had 7 minutes of totality as I recall. So I had time to look at all the unfamiliar constellations -- the ones you Aussies see all the time. Blew my little mind, it did.

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Blew my little mind, it did.

Hahahahaha. That's awesome

viva

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SEVEN MINUTES wtf!?!?!?! the next eclipse with that length of totality is 2186, I'm trying to stay alive long enough to see it!

god, the totality blew my mind. Hyperballad, I wasn't at the festival, but I rented a place on the coast of Oregon with my friends who came in from out of state, and we drove south and east about an hour from there on the morning of the eclipse.

fuck. it was so perfect, so beautiful. it was the first for all seven of us, and no one was prepared for how beautiful and moving and intensely life changing it would be. we saw 1 minute 45 seconds of totality. it felt like a blink, like a dream. Howland your description is magical!

the sun being replaced with darkest possibility of shadow! perfect circles, perfect blackness, a kind of darkness never accessible except in these fragile perfect minutes. the beads and diamonds, the redness of visible mercury, the purest shining halo of perfect light, that the glory of the sun can only be observed  by obscuring it, i shouted and cried, I was so overwhelmed by the beauty and impossibility of it.

i never felt so possessive about the sun, our sun, my sun, my warmth, my light, my planet's hope and nurture and life-sustaining source of energy, until its light was hidden...

ah, fuck.

it's so amazing that this solar system, this Earth, our sun, can behave in this way, creating a natural phenomenon so purely implausible that if aliens come to visit, it will be as tourists, just to see this.

goddamn, eclipse!! goddamn.