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[Diesel 11]

Path of Totality (Smith, Dickinson, Harris)

Oh, it's a new Maiden song? I thought an Individual Thought Patterns outtake had just been released. Oh well.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

Is that in case of a helicopter ditching at sea?

Yes. Part of offshore safety training. Repetition course today and tomorrow.

 

[Black Wizard]

Was that the official explanation then? Oh the irony! It was exactly the same down here in Hampshire. And I had booked the day off work months in advance so I could go to the park at the top of the hill to watch the eclipse, and it was so overcast I couldn't even be sure where the sun was!

Also I had purchased five solar viewers for the occasion, and left the other four at work in case anyone wanted to sneak out to the car park and have a look. One of them came back to me the next day with a post-it attached which said "They were SO good I missed it! LOL!"

I was supposed to be helping with a school group taking weather observations during the eclipse. It definitely got colder and darker, but the clouds just sat there.

 

[Travis The Dragon]

I wasn't up for it, but my mom and dad said it got a bit darker here, similar to when the sun starts to set.

 

[Travis The Dragon]

This would be quite amazing to see to say the least!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=880308585469787

 

[Perun]

I happened to be on holiday in Kent during the '99 eclipse, and it was fortunately all sunny and visible. I also saw the partial eclipse recently in Berlin. I remember being impressed mostly in the darkness that suddenly fell, and to this day, I ponder on the feelings people must have had about this in more superstitious times.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Stirs the imagination, doesn't it.

 

[Night Prowler]

Couldn't see this one. Next total solar eclipse that can be seen from Serbia is in 2081. Think I can make it.

 

[Deleted member 7164]

But, will Serbia make it?

 

[The Flash]

Couldn't see this one. Next total solar eclipse that can be seen from Serbia is in 2081. Think I can make it.

Next one that can be seen from Turkey is in 2060. I probably won't make it.

 

[Deleted member 7164]

I happened to be on holiday in Kent during the '99 eclipse, and it was fortunately all sunny and visible. I also saw the partial eclipse recently in Berlin. I remember being impressed mostly in the darkness that suddenly fell, and to this day, I ponder on the feelings people must have had about this in more superstitious times.

Thank you for reminding me of this. I didn't ponder anything special, I just thought it was cool and short.

 

[Black Wizard]

Next one that can be seen from Turkey is in 2060. I probably won't make it.

Turkey certainly won't make it.

 

[Night Prowler]

But, will Serbia make it?

Of course. I'll watch it from my mansion, since everyone will own one under God Emperor Vucic.

 

[Deleted member 7164]

That's easy. The God Emperor just slightly alters the "mansion" from dvorac to kurac and you're getting it in no time.

 

[Night Prowler]

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

I was in Nottinghamshire for the '99 eclipse - it didn't go total there but it got very close, down to a very thin crescent. I went outside for a walk and it was striking how dark it had become. Also I remember everything being tinged with blue, almost like moonlight. A nice clear day that time.

 

[Brigantium]

I was on top of a hill in West Yorkshire for the '99 one, and it was hazy but easy to see the sun. Or not.

 

[Night Prowler]

I was in Yugoslavia for the 1999 one. In the Montenegrian part, to be precise

 

[JudasMyGuide]

Montenegro. Where even the Sun dies a little.

 

[Black Wizard]

Montenegro: the best part of Yugoslavia.