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[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 155 points 4 months ago

You'll see this is also a perfect example of a map without New Zealand.

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 62 points 4 months ago

Why would imaginary countries be on this map?

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago

It's got Missouri on there, so why not invent a country too?

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 14 points 4 months ago

Um, if Missouri doesn't exist, where do YOU think Jesus will return and establish Zion?

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

It has been foretold in the holy texts that your mother has plenty of room between her legs.

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 11 points 4 months ago
[-] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

Mmmm... Peppermint

[-] orphiebaby@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

The second reform school in a row that my parents abandoned me to was an abusive Baptist one in Missouri. I wish that place were imaginary.

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[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago
[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Canada and Mexico didn't even make it.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

further evidence in favor of the theory that canada and mexico are new zealand territories

[-] Dultas@lemmy.world 82 points 4 months ago

I'm more worried about that's going on in that box in south Georgia.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

that’s the containment zone

[-] HonorableScythe@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago
[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

trust me you dont want to know

[-] mars296@kbin.social 20 points 4 months ago

Nothing good that's for sure. But I wonder what this map is actually from.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Margorie is yelling at the sun without glasses?

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

That's where they keep the goobers and peaches.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 9 points 4 months ago

The eclipse but white

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 months ago

Man, it was a little disappointing.

Mind you, here in the southern Appalachians, I didn't expect anything highly dramatic, but I figured it might get dim outside. Nope, without the glasses and looking directly, I wouldn't have known it was happening.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 67 points 4 months ago
[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 26 points 4 months ago

Screw the Golden record, let's send a complete archive of XKCD comics on the next interstellar mission.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

Even the interactive ones?

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[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 months ago

Total vs partial solar eclipses are a literally night & day difference. The pictures you see online do not do it justice

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

I took a picture of the parking lot I was in and it looked normal, but actually looking at it felt like the sun was broken.

People don't talk about what the world looks like in the moments before total eclipse. Everything looks flat and desaturated. Kinda looks like a photo from the 90s but in HD.

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[-] Skanky@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

Yeah, i hate to say it, but unless you're in the path of totality, it's pretty lame. Sure, the light gets weird, and you can make neat little crescents with shadows, but that's about it

Being in totality is without a doubt, one of the most awe-inspiring things you could ever witness

[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 months ago

Had a few people tell me how they are in the 90% path and didn’t see a reason for seeing totality.

I tried explaining it to them in terms of sex: “I was 95% close to getting laid! Sure, that was probably fun, but you should really see totality.” Realized they just didn’t think it was worth it as an experience. Their loss.

[-] jupiter_jazz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah I traveled to a city for 1 min of totality because I couldn't afford a hotel to stay the night and had out from there. Totally worth, it's one of the prettiest things I've ever seen. Like a ring of absolute silver. It felt like night too because the crickets came out and started chirping.

[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

What is neat is how you experience sunset from a 360 degree perspective rather than just the normal western arc.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

Had totality for 1 min 22 seconds. The entire time I was slack-jawed or going "Holy shit!" My kids were going bananas lol

[-] wetnoodle@sopuli.xyz 19 points 4 months ago

Idk near Philly I thought it was pretty cool

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

See, that is cool. Here, it was just sunny.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 16 points 4 months ago

I..... Disagree. But I'm a space nerd anyways so the thought of 2 celestial bodies as far away as they are from each other to be such a perfect ratio that they basically perfectly overlap, to be just the neatest little cosmic joke on our improbable planet. It's a fun quirk and being at all able to see it is neat.

Also, I'm sorry but I was in northern Appalachian where for like half an hour it got slowly darker by just a little bit at a time and by the time it got mostly covered a perfect cloud coverage hit to make it viewable from the naked eye behind the clouds as a crescent for the next hour and it was very cool to see that sliver of crescent sun just hanging up there.

It was neat for not being totality.

[-] Galapagon@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago

Totality or bust. See you in South America or Spain!

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

What percentage was the eclipse? It probably got dim, but human eyes are very good at filtering out wide range of intensity changes to handle both full sun and cloudy sky. You really only notice an eclipse maybe at 80-90 %. But it isn't that special even at 99 %. On the other hand, total eclipse is absolutely incredible.

[-] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

at 99% I think you can see the clouds several km away turn dark from the shadow of the moon, might get a nice view of watching the shadow move along.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I managed to drive south for an hour and found a spot that reached 1.006 magnitude. It was really surreal

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

That sounds very interesting. The time I saw total eclipse, at 99 % I was to excited about totality and it was cloudy. But I think I remember seeing the shadow rushing over the landscape.

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[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Don't feel bad. I 3D printed the NASA approved pinhole camera to see an 80% eclipse I never got to see.

According to NOAA the chance of overcast has historically been 53% for the the 8th of April for where I live. I was on the the wrong side of the 53% chance.

At my age, in 20 years I probably will be dead according to statistics.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

It's crazy how bright the sun is. At 98% it got to something close to golden hour.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Half the state is crazy for Pigmy Hippo day, the other half go NUTS for Rex Manning day. They've got no time for whatever the cancer orb and wolf trigger are up to.

[-] DrownedRats@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wolf trigger is the name of my new metal band and cancer orb is the first song on their new album

[-] thisbenzingring 8 points 4 months ago

I hope Cancer Orb is just a screamo cover of The Beatles Waiting for the Sun

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

No lie but I do love Pigmy Hippos though.

[-] millie@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago

We mustn't dwell. No, not today! Not on Rex Manning day!

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Because those brave patriots are keeping an eye on Russia.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

To busy fighting off wolves and rabid prospectors.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago

Kudos to including territory number 6!

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

Glad to see Alaska got it too!

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

The colors, Mason. What do they mean?

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