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Bucket list for the equinox

anticpated — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:57:14 GMT

What will you be doing when the moon rudely interupts the sun?

Re: Bucket list for the equinox

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:12:14 GMT

That's for me to know & you to find out

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MI5 — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:15:16 GMT

I'll most likely forget all about it by Friday.

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viridis — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:19:08 GMT

I'm still 50/50 about it all

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Anonymous — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:20:34 GMT

Weren't we supposed to have a dark December & that never happened?

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jonsie — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:26:36 GMT

I'll probably sleep through it and watch it on the news that it was a huge disappointment unless you were flying at 36000 feet and fortunate enough to be sitting in business class seat 2F

Re: Bucket list for the equinox

anticpated — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 22:33:00 GMT

@viridis

Best answer.

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viridis — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 22:52:58 GMT

Good one weren't it.

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anticpated — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 23:55:41 GMT

Half of it anywayn

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Toby — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:53:12 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Weren't we supposed to have a dark December & that never happened?

Was this meant to be another eclipse @Anonymous ?

Welcome by the way

Re: Bucket list for the equinox

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:40:15 GMT

@Toby I am not sure but reports in late November were stating that we were supposed to have 6 consecutive days of darkness at the beginning of December & thanks for the kind welcome

Re: Bucket list for the equinox

anticpated — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:29:06 GMT

The last solar eclipse I can remember experiencing although it was ruined by cloudy weather was in the 1990's. It was weird as there was no sound not even birdsongs..very eerie indeed.

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Cleoriff — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:11:30 GMT

@anticpated wrote:
The last solar eclipse I can remember experiencing although it was ruined by cloudy weather was in the 1990's. It was weird as there was no sound not even birdsongs..very eerie indeed.

Last total solar eclipse was in 1999. Next full one will be 2090

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_visible_from_the_United_Kingdom_AD_1000%E2%80%932091#The_twenty-first_century_.28AD_2001_-_2091.29

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jonsie — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:27:43 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
@anticpated wrote:
The last solar eclipse I can remember experiencing although it was ruined by cloudy weather was in the 1990's. It was weird as there was no sound not even birdsongs..very eerie indeed.
Last total solar eclipse was in 1999. Next full one will be 2090
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_visible_from_the_United_Kingdom_AD_1000%E2%80%932091#The_twenty-first_century_.28AD_2001_-_2091.29

Think all of us on here need to make the most of this one then....

Re: Bucket list for the equinox

MI5 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:31:05 GMT

I'll only be 123

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jonsie — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:31:35 GMT

....mind you I do remember the last one

I remember one around 1958ish though when just a nipper and the headmaster in school had us all looking through a very dark lens. My memories were of a total eclpse but then again, it was a long time ago

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anticpated — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:34:31 GMT

Cleoriff any advice for anyone before the eclipse. I don't want to end up like Neo out of the Matrix, when his eyes get burned out of his head.

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Cleoriff — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:49:41 GMT

@anticpated wrote:
Cleoriff any advice for anyone before the eclipse. I don't want to end up like Neo out of the Matrix, when his eyes get burned out of his head.

All I know is sunglasses are no good at all. In fact on the BBC news today they were showing people how to make eye protectors out of sieves and colanders. They all looked so damn stupid I think best advice is either pray for cloud or "look away from the sun"

Re: Bucket list for the equinox

viridis — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:53:21 GMT

Welders goggles ftw

Re: Bucket list for the equinox

Cleoriff — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:58:06 GMT

@viridis wrote:
Welders goggles ftw

Right. ...so that's my tent...a pair of welders goggles and a torch? Note to self.....have a lie in tomorrow. ..