Don't blind yourself....eclipse glasses on Aug. 21

coaledsweat wrote:Well there's something that you and I will never have to suffer through.

You bet! It will come about 500 million years from now.

As the earths angular momentum is shifted toward the moon (due I believe to the ocean tides), the moon is accelerated (thus moving to a higher orbit) and the earth rotation is decelerated (thus causing the day to lengthen). In about 15 billion years, when the moon is roughly 60% farther away than it is now, this will stop, and the moon will no longer be getting farther away. At that juncture the earths rotation will have slowed to the point where the moon and the earth will both be tidally locked, and the same face of the earth will always face the moon. The moon has already reached the rotational rate point where it only presents one face to the earth. We're just waiting for the same thing to happen to the earth.

But since the sun has only about 5 billion years of life left, this is also a rather moot point.

lsayre wrote:Because the moons orbit is elliptical, there are already times when a full transit of the moon across the sun does not cause a total eclipse with visible corona. And since the moon is getting about 1-1/2 inches farther away from the earth each year, there will come a time when no total eclipses will result in the visibility of the suns corona.

Exactly, they call these an annular eclipse which leaves the sun's edge uncovered, making a ring of fire around the moon. I read that the last total solar eclipse will be roughly 620 million years from now when the moon recedes approximately 15000 miles from earth. These times and distances are pretty small on a cosmological level.

lsayre wrote:

coaledsweat wrote:Well there's something that you and I will never have to suffer through.

You bet! It will come about 500 million years from now.
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And shortly after that ^^

Lightning wrote:

coaledsweat wrote:I'll just watch it on TV, it won't be a full eclipse in New England anyway.

The sun will be 70-80% covered at max eclipse depending on where you are in the northeast. Even so, get some eclipse glasses and check it out.

A group of us rented a cabin in the Smokey Mountains, Tennessee. We'll get there on Sunday afternoon and our cabin is right on the edge of the shadow path. On Monday hopefully we won't have to go far to get out from under clouds. I can't wait! I've had my eye on this eclipse for about 15 years. Our glasses came in the mail yesterday.

Other than that, we're staying at the cabin for 5 nights and will be checking out the local attractions in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge

Prepare for your trip !

He's a video that you become familiar with. And wear a hat that says "Federal Revenuor" or "ATF" ...

https://youtu.be/56duVYLsd4Q?t=31

The drive on I40 thu W. Va. is nice...

As far as I know it's the earth's oceans causing the regression of the moon along with the lengthening of our day. Crazy lol.

davidmcbeth3 wrote:Prepare for your trip !

He's a video that you become familiar with. And wear a hat that says "Federal Revenuor" or "ATF" ...

https://youtu.be/56duVYLsd4Q?t=31

That was great hahaha! I think I'll suggest it to my band mates for our "country moment" at the gig.

davidmcbeth3 wrote:
He's a video that you become familiar with. And wear a hat that says "Federal Revenuor" or "ATF" ...

https://youtu.be/56duVYLsd4Q?t=31

The drive on I40 thu W. Va. is nice...

Last I checked I 40 doesn't run through WV, US 40 does for just a short stretch. Too much PBR?

Lightning wrote:

davidmcbeth3 wrote:Prepare for your trip !

He's a video that you become familiar with. And wear a hat that says "Federal Revenuor" or "ATF" ...

https://youtu.be/56duVYLsd4Q?t=31

That was great hahaha! I think I'll suggest it to my band mates for our "country moment" at the gig.

Check out that dudes other videos. They are all twisted

lsayre wrote:

coaledsweat wrote:Well there's something that you and I will never have to suffer through.

But since the sun has only about 5 billion years of life left, this is also a rather moot point.

That's just great! I just got cured of my insomnia and you drop this on me! I'll never get a good night's sleep worrying about what we're gonna do. Think I could stockpile enough coal to get through that? Or maybe Al Gore could figure out how to preserve this global warming thing.

It's much worse than that. The sun is continually getting brighter (and hotter) as it ages, and in about 1-1/2 billion years it will be hot enough to boil away the last of our oceans.

And after that, at some juncture it will exhaust most of its hydrogen in its core, and switch to fusing helium in the core, at which juncture it will swell in size to where the earth will be either right near its nominal surface, or actually inside it.

Not much chance of surviving 1-1/2 billion years, let alone 5 billion.

If humans last that long, we'll need to find another Earth long before then. A new young solar system where humans can evolve for another few billion years lol

lsayre wrote:It's much worse than that. The sun is continually getting brighter (and hotter) as it ages, and in about 1-1/2 billion years it will be hot enough to boil away the last of our oceans. ................

I'll bet you're a blast at parties. Any more good news? Now my insomnia will be so bad I can't even sleep in the daytime. Well, maybe if I take a drive by myself. That usually puts me right to sleep. But the waking up part gets pretty rough sometimes.

gaw wrote:
Last I checked I 40 doesn't run through WV, US 40 does for just a short stretch. Too much PBR?

"too much"? I don't that's possible. Was thinking about W.Va. tho....one of 'em in the hills.

Brain don't work too good anymore.

As suspected, its supposed to be cloudy and stormy Monday in my neck of the woods (still hoping forecast changes here). I hope you all have a cloudless sky wherever you live.