situated as I am in the western hemisphere, it was sure nice to see all the AP & Reuters photos of last week's eclipse posted on boston.com. I guess it was 6 minutes long over parts of India & China, the longest eclipse anticipated this century.
it's also been sort of fun -in more of a petty, less cosmically inspiring way- to skim over the hundreds of things said in multiple languages in response to the truly amazing photo collection. aside from effusive gratitude, the comments generally seem to follow one of a couple basic threads. bickering: whether it's the Ganges or Ganga, whether Hyderabad is in India or Pakistan, and so on. and evangelism: Islam, Christian, anti-Christian, math & physics, and so on.
as if a "one planet, under heavenly bodies, with sunlight and darkness for all" weren't more than enough for us to just agree on and be thrilled with. (and then there's the occasional wild posting of stuff like lyrics from an entire Pink Floyd song.)
anybody else ever seen an eclipse? I've just seen a couple partials. the first was one morning they let us out of junior high. I held up a sheet of looseleaf and we watched 3 crescents form in the shadow it cast. the second was one evening, 7 or 8 years ago from my lawn.
anyway, for those of us who missed this last one, we can try to console ourselves w/ this video.
While you were looking through some looseleaf, I was using some cardstock in elementary school. Very neat, wouldn't you say. Do you think all those sunglasses provided enough protection? Hmm.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, good point, ash.
ReplyDeleteI remember playing four square during the eclipse you speak of(back in elementary school)and feeling a little sluggish. I remember making a concious decision to be more thankful for the sun after that. There is much four square can teach us.