This was my hole… reason for checking the comments

Why do people always feel like their inexperience on a topic is relevant?

Probably to politely invite contrasting opinions and experiences from people in the field

My entry point was 10x50 binoculars. There’s a lot of faint fuzzy white blobs out there to see with them.

Greetings, traveler. This server owner is waiting for the proper Ashlands patch instead of selecting the public test branch, is all

Dark fractures in the ice look like cartoon spiders. Clickbaity, but interesting after that

Need some help? I know of some body snatcher groups that exist out there but I’ll offer my own help. I can’t promise it’ll go swimmingly, but I’ve at least beat the queen (in a group of 5)

That’s a neato fact! That’s probably why the comment you’re replying to didn’t mention any transient party names, just conservatism.

Annular isn’t really noticeable without looking directly at the sun. It’s gets much darker, but dark adaptation and no funky colors just seems relatively normal. As for every 18 months, yes somewhere on the earth is an eclipse, but they’re not always total, not always over land, not always over countries with high research budgets, and not always over English-speaking countries, which is relevant for visibility on English-speaking sites/subsites

Edit: the paper specifically talks about prior eclipses across the world. So they’re just expanding the knowledge. So if you ask why they’re doing this, why do we do anything?

A ton of people live in the path of totality. Like double the 2017 eclipse. 30 million or something? Plus it’s within a few hours of massive population centers. So there’s plenty of people who should be aware of this issue.

Then you find out the rim-to-rim record is under 3 hours. That’s 21 miles of horizontal with -7kft and then +7kft of elevation.

I was there this year. I never desired to see it but I was “in the area”. It’s insane, it really is. You’re 7000ft above sea level in a big flat plateau that goes for a hundred miles in every direction. And then there’s this huge, 1 mile deep, 7 mile wide trench in the ground. I did a light hike of about 1 hour down and 1.5hrs back up from the south Kaibab trail. Now I’m no trail runner, but I do a decent pace. I made it most of the way down into that white layer near the top. Through the brown/green and through most of the white, but didn’t touch red. An hour of cliffside zigzag to not even really be in the canyon. I probably could have made it to the cedar point in the red but I didn’t want to help the Rangers reach their annual rescue goal

Friendly reminder that “nonprofit” doesn’t mean it’s a charitable and honest corporation. Not saying DSI is bad, just that nonprofits love to bury profits in executive salaries as “cost of operations” while making people picture volunteers doing good.

I agreed, thinking immediately of larger un/sparsely populated regions. While DSI is American and probably biased, this part has something to do with it that would set it apart from some other places:

The certification involved a years-long arduous effort by federal, state and local officials, community members and several legal jurisdictions. It required parties to agree to the plan as well as monitor the night sky and institute lighting improvements, DarkSky International said in a statement.

I’m sure there’s some casual bribery suggestive donations

I drove through TN and skipped the buc-ees. I guess I’ll never know

Odd indeed since the link works fine in my mobile app (connect) but doesn’t show on the native comment thread. I kinds figured it was something like that with a different source instance. At least I can feel good knowing I explained where 28 does occur

I’m not seeing a comment pointing out why 28 days isn’t a moon thing, so I’ll take a shot. If you watch new moon to new moon or full moon to full moon, it’s a 29.5 day cycle. It’s true, the moon’s orbit is only 28 days. However, that’s 360° of travel. We don’t track the moon against the stars for its cycle though, it’s tracked against the sun. A full moon sits opposite the sun, a new moon in line with the sun, etc. So, in that 28 day orbital period, the earth has also orbited about 1/13 of an orbit around the sun, changing the position of the sun against the stars . That means the moon has to travel an extra 28° of orbit to reach the new moon position again - about an extra day an a half.

I thought his jeep issue was that P on the dial didn’t actually guarantee the parking pawl was engaged to stop it from rolling. Separate from the lack of positive engagement with the P position, more about the physical disconnect between the two. Unless that was just the non-offensive language version of “user didn’t turn the dial all the way and our polite warning chime was too polite”

I’d recommend reiterating why fushia isn’t there. I rewound the video to find the relevant part again (not hard in a <5 minute video) but, imo, restating the cause and effect after separately stating the cause and then effect would help drive home the message. This way, you can actually apply the cause to the now-known effect. Maybe that’s just me.

For me, it depends how much of the game is story-driven, how long a campaign takes, and how dynamic the gameplay is. I’ve never replayed an assassin’s creed game (from 3 thru Odyssey), but rank them highly. I consider racing/sim games “replayable” in the sense that I never finish the absurd number of championships but will binge them for a while as I buy more dream cars. Similar story for battle Royale/arena/non-story games like rocket league or fortnite. My most-replayed game series is Ace Combat (4-7), but that’s because the campaign is only about 5 hours typically and offers more variation in gameplay along with attainable medals. Puzzle games like Portal 1/2 or The Turing Test offer replayability to me because I never really remember all the tricks to the puzzles, but that’s like 5 years between replays to not spoil the entire story.

This is also driven by having less time available to game. I wish I could learn 2 games every week but a good gaming week has 10 hours of gameplay for me. It’s usually less than 5. So there’s a little more motivation to play something familiar so I can start having fun faster. Ironically, Elite: Dangerous is a comfort game despite the common complaint of its complexity. Some PS2 era games come to mind

I played amnesia exactly once and still haven’t brought myself to replay it. I tried a year ago (originally played in 2012) and, while I admit I didn’t give it much effort to relearn the mazes, I didn’t feel too motivated still remembering most of the plot and of course the finale.