Does this mean there's going to be super powers awakening across Asia now?

Sorry, someone had to say it =)

Longest eh?
If it's total, aren't they all the same length?

>> ^HenningKO:
Longest eh?
If it's total, aren't they all the same length?


No. Totality ranges in time from eclipse to eclipse. This one happened to be the longest until early 2100s.

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The longest Solar eclipse would happen if the moon should pass directly along and over the Equator. North or south of that, and it would take less time.

The last total eclipse near florida was in 1918 and the next one is in 2045, so I guess I'm going to be waiting a long time.

NASA is my friend
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEatlas/SEatlas.html

"Once you see it, you'll get hooked on it for life!"

True, oh so very true.

To think comets and eclipses were harbingers of doom. Before people understood science. But... science could be all wrong. It could be the cloak of night playing tricks on us. Making us think we live in a vast expanse of a universe rather than a 'true' human-Earth-centered reality entirely designed and scripted by a big invisible guy living in the clouds with bird winged people-creatures in eternal battle with horned red dudes who like to hang out in volcanoes.

this eclipse was really a huge letdown for me... and video reportings like this actually have me scratching my head and wondering what the hell happened...

july 22nd - from 8am to 10:30am i was near the top of taiwan's 2nd highest mountain, hshuehshan or snow mountain (3886m), avidly watching for this phenomenon on a very bright and nearly cloudless day

i literally saw very little to nothing -- i know, i know... even people here in taiwan are posting photos and saying the 'sky dimmed noticeably' ... but i noticed no dimming whatsoever, and could only see a very slight after-image-type of bright 'elipse' layered over a small part of the sun if i quickly glanced away and back (don't worry, i was wearing some nice polarizing sunglasses)

i took many digital photos and video throughout this period and they also show nothing special, but perhaps that was simply my camera or settings (though i tinkered with all possible settings including time lapse

the only other indication i had that 'something' was occurring was in my holding up a pinhole card to the sun and casting its shadow onto another piece of white card i would set on the ground - even though this showed that something was obscuring the sun, there was no visible dimming whatsoever to the 'not-quite' naked eye

anyway, very disappointing results for something that i thought i had carefully anticipated and planned for

BBC videos are *blocked for me.

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