It's always interesting to experience a solar eclipse, and the new filters allow us to look directly at it without any harm to our vision. Still, taking photos is difficult. we just have to do our best. Our area experienced 95 percent totality, which I'm told is quite different from the 100 percent in areas just to our south and east. While the frogs in our area were briefly convinced that dusk was coming, in the areas of totality, things were completely dark in the middle of the day. Stars were visible in the daytime sky, and animals instinctively treated it as nighttime. | |
This time, people liked sharing a social media post that claimed that pets needed to be shielded from the event. I don't know about you, but my dog doesn't make is a habit of staring at the sun, and I'm pretty certain that wild animals haven't ever been harmed in the process. The social media posts went on to say that some animals react to an eclipse in fear, much like they might with thunder and fireworks. I don't know about all animals, but I'm fairly certain, if they react at all, they will simply believe that its getting dark. Maybe they'll take an extra nap. One person on a major news agency even claimed that the solar eclipse - something that happens about every 18 months somewhere on the planet - is probably "another" sign of Climate Change. Are you kidding me?
I can't provide any personal evidence (I haven't been to outer space to witness it myself.) that the solar eclipse proves or disproves that the earth is flat, but I'm also fairly sure that the science of the movement of heavenly bodies has something to say about that, as well. It's amazing to me what some people can come up with in the 21st Century.