AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Same reaction, just less violently reacting.

At roughly 6:30 P.M., Pacific time, this Sunday, there will be an annular solar eclipse visible throughout the southwest States. An annular eclipse is where the moon is farther from the Earth than normal, and doesn't completely block out the Sun, resulting in a ring of light around the moon.

That's my birthday

Glad I'm not a firebender.

daisies China, extending days by .06 microseconds since 2006!

I've been watching this guy's science videos for four hours now and I have learned SO MUCH

Rather annoying that the eclipse was best viewed in the city I just moved FROM to enjoy the summer with family. Might as well though, I'd completely forgotten about it until I came and saw this thread anyway. It's probably better that way even, I'd have been kicking myself had I been in a prime viewing location and forgot to go looking for it.

Thought you couldn't look at solar eclipses directly anyway.

You're not, but everyone does anyway.

You can get special glasses to look at it though.

Like the propaganda we've painstaikingly painted on every visible surface.

This is how science works.

Best explanation. That just made my day.

I found it cool:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-memory-capacity

Ah, finally they've started working on the important issues. Took them long enough!