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Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 11:36 pm
by Derron
BSmack wrote:
Derron wrote:Pay the fuck attention when updating your spreadsheets. I am moving to Central Oregon next year. The people in Central Oregon are moving to Idaho because those of us are moving to Central Oregon.
Wouldn't it work out easier if y'all just stayed where you were? Seems awfully complicated. :P
Not at all complicated. I have the chance to take a pile of money off the table selling my existing real estate to some yuppie Intel weenie who wants the farm life with in 25 minutes drive to the fab. The population growth here is making a formerly nice area to live full of millennial yuppies, illegal dope dealers, homeless criminals and beggars. My wife wants to cut back to half time work in the next year. I am tired of the yard work that 5 acres entails. My work can be done anywhere.

Sell existing property, putting at least 500k in the bank. Buy manufactured home, build large shop. Still have 250 in the bank Located in an area of conservative mind set, close to out door recreation and get away from 40 fucking inches of rain each fall and winter. Enjoy life on our terms from then on out. Living in a growing urban area where the government crams everybody into small geographical areas due to fucked up zoning is not how my retirement years are going to be spent.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:29 pm
by Softball Bat
https://countingdownto.com/countdown/us ... down-clock


T-minus 13 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes, and 17 seconds.


:)

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:04 pm
by smackaholic
Derron wrote:Living in a growing urban area where the government crams everybody into small geographical areas due to fucked up zoning is not how my retirement years are going to be spent.
Me neither.

sin-

Wags

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 2:34 am
by Softball Bat
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Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 1:57 am
by Softball Bat
What the eclipse will look like from your location...


http://time.com/4882923/total-solar-ecl ... aces-view/


Click
Enter your zip
Watch in amazement!

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 3:10 am
by Left Seater
Cool link. Thanks for sharing it.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 12:27 pm
by Left Seater
Well that and the fact that with a flat earth model if there is a total eclipse at any point on earth, all of earth would have a total eclipse.

These simple facts can be proven by a third grader with a dinner plate, globe, tennis ball and flashlight. In fact these same items can show that a flat earth model is wrong by trying to create a sunset over part of earth.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 4:36 pm
by Arch Angel
I don't know if I am down with this eclipse shit.

All it reminds me of are things like this that comes from that phenomenon.

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Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:53 pm
by Softball Bat

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 2:00 am
by Moving Sale
You could just not cut eye holes in the next sheet you wear you fucking nazi POS.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 1:00 am
by Softball Bat
A solar eclipse is not hard to explain.

A lunar eclipse is more tricky.
I'm still working on it.




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Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 1:49 am
by Left Seater
Add sunsets to the to do list as well.

Please and thanks.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 1:59 am
by Softball Bat
Sunsets are simple and obvious.

We are not moving.
And water is flat.

These are basics.

Oh well.



Research is fun.
Do your own.


... or not.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 4:12 am
by Left Seater
Softball Bat wrote:Sunsets are simple and obvious.

We are not moving.
And water is flat.

These are basics.

Oh well.



Research is fun.
Do your own.


... or not.

If the earth is flat then there is no way part of the earth can be dark while another part is light.

As you say do some research yourself. Place a dinner plate on a table. The plate represents the flat earth. Then take a flashlight and shine it at the dinner plate in a way that part of the plate is not receiving any light from the flashlight but other parts are. This is impossible to do. Even more so when the flashlight remains directly over the plate like the sun is over part of the earth at all times.

Can't wait for your explanation of your results of this.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 4:13 am
by Softball Bat
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:)

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 4:19 am
by Softball Bat
Lefty wrote:As you say do some research yourself. Place a dinner plate on a table. The plate represents the flat earth. The. Take a flashlight and shine it at the dinner plate in a way that part of the plate is not receiving any light from the flashlight but other parts are. This is impossible to do. Even more so when the flashlight remains directly over the plate like the sun is over part of the earth at all times.


There are a number variables involved here, Lefty.

Such as how big the flashlight is in comparison to the plate -- and how far the flashlight is away from the plate.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 12:59 pm
by Left Seater
Neither of those change the science. Perform the above with a pen light and a mag lite. The results are the same. You can't shine light on part of the plate and have another part in darkness. Then do the test again just holding the flashlight above the plate and then climb up on a ladder. The results will be the same.

This simple experiment shows sunsets and light and darkness can't exist on a flat disk. I know you have said the flat earth map isn't definitive, but that is the big problem. When actual events and facts don't work on one model, another is developed and tested. That either works or it doesn't. You and others can't come up with a model that fits observed sunlight times in different cities over the same period of time, flight times, lunar eclipses, etc, etc. Even if we add in multiple suns we can't get this to work on a flat earth model. Yet amazingly these same things fit perfectly on a globe.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 1:16 pm
by Softball Bat
Lefty, the sun is not a flashlight.


But for what it's worth...


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If you put a garbage can lid up close to that flashlight, the amount of the lid covered in light would be less than it would be if the lid were moved further away.

The beam is cone shaped.

Like your head.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 1:21 pm
by Softball Bat






:)

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 1:31 pm
by Softball Bat
Btw, eclipse Monday happens to be a -----> new moon. :shock:

Does that give you a creepy feeling?


Image

http://www.moongiant.com/phase/8/21/2017




Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 1:33 pm
by Left Seater
Typical, response with insults.

But you are wrong. Take the flashlight and garbage can lid into the closet or room you can darken completely. Shine the light on the lid and change the distance of the light from the lid. The brightness across the lid changes but the entire lid is visible meaning light is reaching all parts of the lid. (FYI use a dark colored plastic lid rather than a metal one to reduce reflection.)

As for the cone shape of the light from the flashlight that is due to the focused cone around the light. If you want to better replicate the sun take the lense and cone off of the flashlight and perform both the dinner plate and trash an lid tests. Without the lense and cone this just makes the flat earth model harder to explain. Either way the results are the same though.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 7:07 pm
by Dinsdale
5 days before the Eclipocolypse, the traffic jams have already begun.


http://www.oregonlive.com/eclipse/2017/ ... rt_m-rpt-2

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 7:18 pm
by Mikey
Softball Bat wrote:Image
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Are we not men?


I'll be in Paso Robles for the eclipse.
Actually, not for the eclipse but I'll be there.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 7:21 pm
by Moving Sale
I'll be in Hawaii for the eclipse. I heard Mikey would be Paso so I'm out of here.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:42 pm
by Carson
RACK any and all Devo references!

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:55 pm
by Arch Angel
It's gonna rain here. I hope Goobs have better weather down in Mad-Town.

Mom said that hotels are charging a killing in Kentucky (4 X normal cost). She said that they will have the best view. She has a sign up for RV's if they want to camp out in the yard for $25 a night. She got two so far and she said no beer would be provided or consumed on property and don't scare the animals that made it their home in the brush and woods around the house.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:51 am
by Python
I remember a time when posting about an Eclipse would get someone ridiculed. Times have changed.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:55 am
by Softball Bat
Just more evidence that evolution is bullshit, Py.

Man is always regressing.

Even on this board.

Next thing you know there will be a bird watching thread.




Wait...

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:02 am
by Softball Bat
During the eclipse, keep pets indoors... with the blinds closed.









:)

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:06 am
by Softball Bat
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Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:43 pm
by Softball Bat

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 4:23 pm
by Mikey

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 12:57 pm
by Softball Bat
Interesting video.
And they talked about August 21, 2017!









A world of peace on August 21, 2017?

Hmmmm...




:|

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 5:24 pm
by Left Seater
Please get a photo of the basketball in front of the sun, it you can.

At least a cell phone pic...you know no photo or it didn't happen and what not.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 5:43 pm
by Wolfman
And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 5:44 pm
by Joe in PB
Just finished the Eclipse party here at the office, they provided 150 eclipse glasses for viewing, pretty cool. Not cool enough for me to travel across the country, but cool none the less.

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Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 5:45 pm
by Left Seater

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 7:08 pm
by Dinsdale
That was pretty freaking cool (this was my second eclipse).

Had to go a little south to get in the path of totality. Glad I'm a Northwest Oregon old-timer, and not a tourist. Got home in less than an hour. The news is showing aerial shots of I-5 heading north from Salem to Portland -- it's completely stopped for 50 miles.

There's a lot of people here.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 7:55 pm
by Goober McTuber
Rack that twitter feed. Hilarious.

Re: Mark your calendar for the total solar eclipse

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:16 pm
by MgoBlue-LightSpecial
I heard some people around here took the day off and went all the way down to Carbondale, IL to see the eclipse. Apparently it was rainy and cloudy most of the day. :lol:

Personally, I would never consider driving 500 miles for 2 minutes of entertainment unless it involved me, trev, and a cheap motel.