monkeylizard

I don't see why you'd need to sign for an ammo delivery. I've never had to sign for any ammo shipments.

@Wingshooter Check out https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html?starty=2020 That shows every upcoming eclipse and its path. The April 2023 one might make a good excuse to finally go to Australia! It's only about a minute duration at the centerline though.

I'm already making plans for 2024, and hoping I'm still alive for 2045. Once they're back in stock and at normal prices, I think I'll pick up some Celestron EclipSmart binoculars. Even without an eclipse, they'd be good for looking for sun spots and maybe catching a glimpse at a big solar flare around the edge.

If you're not keeping yours as a souvenir or to reuse for the 2024 eclipse, Astronomers Without Borders will be collecting them to redistribute to people in Africa and South America for their upcoming eclipses. As long as they aren't scratched or damaged they can be reused. Keep a watch on this page for more details as they become available. https://astronomerswithoutborders.org/ FYI - The warning on some glasses about discarding them after 3 years is out of date if yours are ISO 12312-2 compliant. That 3-year thing was part of the old ISO standard which was replaced in 2015. Some manufacturers still printed it on their glasses, but that's a bit like asking your barber if you need a haircut. Don't believe me? NASA said it, not me. https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety Read the "Note:" paragraph just below the map of the USA.

Bring a few packets of their strawberry jam and you're in.

That's a terrier of some sort and the description pretty much sums up every terrier ever.

Yes, Venus was the very bright one to the west. Mercury was to the east and much closer to the sun. You can see it in a lot of the pictures being posted to the Interwebs. It's a bright speck just to the upper left of the eclipsed sun.

See, everyone. this is what happens when you go straight for the farm implements and skip over the important documents like my magazine covers and pages. Your belly's full, but you look like a homeless crack-head. Aint nobody got time fo dat!

Here's a sneak peak at what my Post-Cracker-Barrel-Raid survival commune might look like. . . on Casual Fridays, naturally

Does your wife know about Nancy? Seriously though, that's great. Keep it up and you'll be out of the debt hole entirely. It's very freeing.

^^^This. Some SCUBA diving shops can also pressure test a tank. If there's one near you, give them a call.

Bersa, you can have the tank pressure tested if you ever want to fill it again. If it passes, the tester will stamp a new date into the metal. It's sometimes cheaper than buying a new tank, but of course that's only true if it passes. If it fails, you'll pay for the test and a new tank. For the smaller tanks, it's usually cheaper to get a new one.

SHHHH!!!! That's like saying "Beetlejuice" three times.

Get a natural gas grill. Mine's hard-piped into the house gas lines. I'll never go back to the propane tanks.

Just know that you won't be fixing up that shotgun in style because you won't know what to wear to be a stylish man on the go.....I mean seriously.....without my magazine covers and pages, you'll probably do something stupid like wear a fedora with a dinner jacket. Or worse, wingtip shoes with a tuxedo!

@XxthejuicexX, if the weather cooperates, I would. Maybe head over towards Woodbury.

If you're deciding between just inside the band and getting to the centerline, I might agree with you. If you're talking about outside the band vs. inside the band, I'd say the drive would be worth it. But the forecast doesn't look so great right now, so it may all be for nothing.

Not a chance.

Putting the duh in Floriduh.

According to Google Translate, that says: Something tells me that's not exactly right.

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This doesn't feel as radical of a change as the last one. More like an upgrade than an overhaul. I like it so far. I enjoy some of the new features like the different kinds of reactions besides "Like", and the forum is definitely faster.

If he doesn't, I'm writing him in.

There's no such thing as partial totality. There's totality and there isn't. Click on the map link I posted above or the one from vontar. You can click specific spots and it will show the exact duration of totality. Along the center line, it's going to be about 2m 40s. You only lose a few seconds as you move away from that for the first several miles, but as you reach the edges, the duration falls off very quickly. If you're outside the boundaries, you will NOT see totality. You won't see the sun's corona or the diamond-ring effect, etc. It can literally be a mater of a few meters. People just inside the line will will get the show, but their next door neighbors will not.

Here's that old thread. It went on for a while, so get some popcorn.