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Well, being in Europe, I can say that the sun is really going "dark" now 
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I'm 60 miles north of Atlanta. Certainly overhyped. Hey, but it was free.
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charlieg wrote: Certainly overhyped.
Indeed. Schools are letting out an hour later because they were worried about the kids and buses being on the road when it goes dark. News releases said to make sure if you are driving during it to put your headlights on. I was at 97% apparently and you didn't even need to turn on your lights. Very disappointing. But, I guess that goes to show how powerful the sun is if there is such a huge difference between 97% and 100%.
I also just spoke to my brother who lives in Idaho directly in the path and he said it was amazing. He loved it.
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The effect would probably have been stronger without diffuse light in the atmosphere. On the moon there is only deep shadow or bright sunlight, nothing inbetween.
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Difference between < 99% and 100% is enormous! Seeing <99 is slightly better than seeing full moon. Seeing 100% is almost spiritual event!
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Ya, I've learned that the hard way.  I thought maybe Europe got together to change the rotation of the sun so that I missed it.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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You'll have next chance in 2024. It's worth it. I'll be going 2026 to Spain. Here's difference between totality and partial. Guess which one is totality (100%):
Totality vs partial
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Haha, got ya (reply from a sneaky European) 
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Yes - we jump up-and-down for one day each fourth year after 28th Feb and before 1st March. We didn't bother in 1900 and we will not do it in 2100 either.
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We live 60 miles or so from Columbia, SC - one of the 100% zones.
Showed my daughter the pictures; she says they saw the small sliver of sunlight.
Not total, but still interesting.
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I think it was the Russians who sabotaged your experience of the eclipse out of pure spiteful envy! 
They are like that, you know! 
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I drove to southern Illinois to watch the total eclipse. Really without glasses there wasn't much noticeable difference until the blockage was hitting the 100% mark. Even a minute or two before hand it was almost full brightness glancing up at the sun without my glasses on. Sure the horizon wasn't quite the same shade of blue, but no real change in ambient light levels.
During those two minutes of darkness though, WOW!  I got chills from both the sheer beauty of it and the temperature drop.
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Ya, I wish I had known that ahead of time. I could have driven about an hour to be in the 100% zone.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I know. We're not meant to look directly.
But seriously: that's like putting a hole in a wall with a sign "do not look through this hole".
cheers
Chris Maunder
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We got a partial eclipse here. Quite cool.
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 I did wear my sunglasses and the cloud cover enabled me to see enough...we had around 90% coverage here. I really did try to do the pinhole camera, but it wasn't working...so yeah, I looked. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Yep! Crescent Sun retinal burn in ftw!
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It's just eyes. If you claw them out, you can grow a new set
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, so my statement above may not be accurate.
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I was outside 50 minutes ago and had already forgot about it. Supposedly we were to get 86% coverage, but all I saw was haze; c'est la vie!
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I was scheduled in a meeting for all but 12 minutes of the eclipse  . It's not as much of a disappointment as it sounds, since our weather was fairly overcast today. I've seen it get darker just before a line of thunderstorms came through.
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You need a welding filter, for arc welding. 
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That would protect against the pie too...
good tip 
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