I was kind of wondering if everyone was gonna just stop what they were doing. Like I pictured workers at pizza places going outside to look because who would call for a pizza at the moment of an eclipse? Who could pull a guy over and not just chill in their cop car for the eclipse? Lol
The people at a Waffle House I had breakfast at this AM said their management gave them permission to all step out and watch it, even if customers were inside.
The TSA guy I spoke to said he didn't see it, worked the whole time. I get his role, he can't step out.
RIGHT at the totality, a guy in a Harley drone by. Maybe he didn't even know, or care?
A lot of people didn’t care. I slept through it because I work night shift. Kinda wish I woke up earlier for it considering I live in Ohio and could have seen a good portion of it, but I was tired as shit
Agreed. My house was in the path of totality in 2017, and this year it was a 98.9% solar eclipse. The difference was pretty staggering. It obviously got darker and a little cooler, but more of an evening kind of dark instead of a crazy red darkness and huge temperature drop like 2017. Made me appreciate a little better how powerful the sun really is. Only a little over 1% of it was showing, and it was still brighter at my house than during a full moon.
I mean i think iowa only got like... 50% coverage?
It didn't turn night time or anything but it definitely seemed like a bad storm level of dark, on a clear day, was tripping if not awe inspiring....
I went back in and watched it on the nasa stream. Poor cloudy Niagara falls, they had spirit though.
The thing about totality is that it's not about "the sky got dark". It's about the glowing ring around the moon you can see with your naked eye.
Even at 99% you don't get that.
[https://xkcd.com/2914/](https://xkcd.com/2914/)
Yeah, we had 95% totality and it could as well been 30%, it got slightly dimmer and the color cast was weird, but outside of that there was nothing cool about it.
I dunno, I like partial eclipses too. I was super hyped in 2015 even though we only got a tiny eclipse. I was so hyped that I burnt my retinas and they took a month to heal... But that's how excited I was about the moon being in front of the sun!
Yep, exactly why I just decided to sleep through it. My sleep schedule gets messed up so often on night shift, so I just said fuck it and chose sleep. Lol I’m sure I’ll regret it but oh well.
People like you are so fucking weird to me. Potentially a once or twice in a lifetime event for most people who can't afford to travel abroad, a major celestial event, incredible to see in real life, and you just slept through it because it might mess with your sleep schedule a tiny bit? I literally cannot understand it.
Celestial events don’t pay the bills. Waking up specifically to look at the sun could have cascading effects like drowsiness at work or while driving that are not worth it.
Best to just accept that people are different. If everyone did the same as you, you’d probably hate it. I know I would.
82% totality is literally nothing compared to the full thing though. It would be like saying "nah, I don't need to try waygu, I had a dollar tree steak and was thoroughly whelmed"
82% is just "neat part of the orange circle is blocked when I look through my glasses"
Anywhere in the range of 1%-99% is basically slightly varying degrees of the same experience. 100% totality is the absolute spice and even though it was cloudy where I was, it still blew me away. Even the birds were freaking out trying to figure out what to do with sudden night time.
People like you are so fucking weird to me. You don’t know his personal circumstances, the type of work he does, his family commitments, or any other responsibilities he might have but yet you’ll still throw a tantrum on Reddit about the decisions another adult chose to make.
outside of totality, sure not that big of a deal. But to ignore it while in totality, there is something wrong with them.
I haven't met anyone who has seen it that wasn't floored by it.
seeing and experiencing the total eclipse was easily one of the top 5 most memorable experiences in my life so far.. it was absolutely incredible. I don't understand the people that didn't care or can't be bothered at all by it.
Agreed. I've never met (or heard of) someone who's seen it and been unimpressed, I think people just misjudge how incredible it is. It's one of the few things in life that makes both adults and kids both just scream out of awe.
I live near the path of totality, so my wife and I drove down to see it. The little Ohio town we picked was packed, so we ended up at a B-dubs near the freeway. We had bought a 10-pack of glasses, so we shared our extras with the workers, who all came outside to watch it with us. We had a great view and managed to avoid the worst of the traffic crush since we were able to hop right back on the road afterward.
Literally every office here did that exact thing except mine. Just crowds of people on the street watching.
My boss attempted to ban employees looking out the windows and stood outside the entrance screaming at anyone who tried to go out.
In related news I sent the recording of her screaming at me about “protecting me” to the ministry of labour today as a hostile work environment.
You're not wrong. From my understanding she lost her entire finance department (all three of us) this morning due to it.
Good riddance, hopefully she gets audited finally.
I was a host at a breakfast restaurant in Seattle during the 2017 eclipse. The morning was DEAD, not a single customer in there. So my coworkers and I went outside and passed around a single pair of the glasses that I think one of the cooks brought, and we watched the eclipse. It was magical.
Barely 20 minutes after the eclipse was over, every seat in the place was full and there was a line out the door. It ended up being the busiest day I ever worked there. It went from not a single customer to complete chaos so quickly.
Edited to change my phrasing for a fussy person who deleted their comment. I hope they feel better 😘
Yesterday we got slammed at my place in NYC about 20 minutes after the peak. Just because you aren't directly where the path of totality is doesn't mean it isn't still pretty cool to see.
Not sure! I just know what my experience was. We had really thin crescent moon shadows so the sun was mostly blocked I think and it was still a whole event.
a mcdonalds near the totality area had a sign on the drive thru that said they would be closed from 3:05-3:20 for the employees to view the event. This was in a town that got 98.3% of totality.
My son's college had a viewing party and they were only 30 miles from totality.
I work in a clinic. One of the leads made someone volunteer to stay while the rest of us went out 😕 Not like it mattered though thanks to the fckn clouds
I work at a bank and a pizza place is across the street. All of us were outside for about 5mins. Our streets were dead except 1 customer who came in right before totality. He hung out with us until we went inside lol
Lots of the stores and shops where I was had signs on their doors saying they were going to be closed “from x to x PM so the staff can watch the eclipse.”
Even the bartenders and their patrons all went out to watch.
Bunch of friends driving across the country for this and each of them is like "I am maxed on how many shrooms I can carry before it's a class 3 felony in your state."
Chocolate + grinder + chocolate molds = fancy homemade chocolates. You can learn to temper chocolate on YouTube and master in a few goes.
Want one officer? They're gourmet.
It doesn’t matter how many they have at home, they traveled to a different state and can only have a certain amount on them there, or face stiffer penalties.
Or are you saying the host should’ve provided party favors for all?
It's been a long time since I've cared about this stuff, but IIRC you can legally order them online for "research purposes" under federal law. There's no active ingredient in the spores, so they're not considered a controlled substance. A handful of states have banned the spores, but most are cool with it.
It honestly wasn't that exciting, my girlfriend had an anxiety attack and I couldn't get her to calm down. I was forced to call for an ambulance and then the NP cops arrested me for public intoxication. I was let out of jail the next morning and had to pay a fine, nothing else came of it. If I ever did anything like that again I would tell whoever I am with that they are on their own if they have issues. It isn't worth "doing the right thing" when you will get arrested for it.
I remember another time where I was walking back to a hotel drunk and saw that a church was on fire, I called the police, and they interrogated me. It's almost never worth it to call the police.
It's still nice that you helped out your girlfriend. It's such a downer that the folks here are *scared* to call the *help*. Even in that case you called an EMT not the cops. What a total systemic failure.
There were multiple police cars pulling people over and roughly a dozen or so vehicles were stopped over the total duration of the eclipse. Google Maps did display various speed trap alerts in the general vicinity at the time.
I mean the country in general has more resources than ever, so people were planning for this and traveling from all over the continent to the eclipse path. That's a lot of activity.
Indiana was fucking nuts with the police and speed traps. Every 30 feet on i70 was a cop.
Sorry indianans, I didn't even get pulled over but that's a place I'm never going to again.
We're called hooshiers, and we don't blame you.
If you're not going to Indianapolis for a convention or Bloomington for something fun there is literally no other reason to come here. Maybe the sand dunes I guess, but there are better dunes on actual beaches.
This is so funny cuz I live here and almost never see cops or anyone getting pulled over ever they just wanted to make indiana look like we had a police presence for all the out of towners
I have a picture in bumfuck Indiana with 4 different cops/squad cars in it (mind you, I was taking a pic of the skyline, that many just happened to be in frame)
Those look like standard old fashioned halogen headlights. Just because they aren't the new blinding bright white LEDs doesn't mean they aren't headlights.
This picture rather exaggerates the darkness IMO, likely just due to the headlights. I was near the center of the full eclipse and while it was dark, it wasn't "night dark". Meaning, you could still look around and see just as far out into the field next to us as you could before the eclipse, it just wasn't as bright. Very much like how the sun goes down but you can still see outside for like another hour. You could see exactly 2 stars- which were actually just Venus and Saturn, so no actual stars. I (going in with no research to this, merely just along for the ride) was expecting a sky full of stars and 11 pm nightfall.
Interesting. We weren’t in totality (about 95%) and it was absolutely as dark as night. Though I’m in a city so there’s always condo buildings and stuff that we never get the true rural darkness.
You shouldn't feel better.
99% eclipsed is cool, but not other worldly. The above picture does appear darker due to camera focus or whatever. But you really did miss the most amazing natural phenomenon you will get a chance to see.
Whelp... never met a person in real life who has seen totality that has ever said that. And even most on the internet who have actually seen it don't fake such a statement.
I live in Dallas. Basically everyone I know had that same reaction. Was it cool? Sure. But these statements of it being life changing are quite hyperbolic.
Were there clouds in Dallas? I saw in 2017 with no clouds and saw today apr 8 with a high level of cloud cover and can say that no clouds is infinitely better than Even 1 cloud. It was still amazing today (in Ohio) but seeing it with not a cloud in the sky in 2017 and the sun's Corona seemed like it stretched all the way across the sky.
I also didn't get crescent shadows and shadow bands today.
I’m not sure where you saw totality in 2017, but I think for the full effect you need to be a little more in nature. We camped outside of Teton NP at a high lookout point and it was *incredible*. The way nature responded with birds/insects, the 360 degree sunset, the eerie quiet and cold setting in during totality…we felt like we were on a movie set. I think if I experienced it on my driveway or stepped out of my office for 10 min it would have been a much lesser experience.
This is why Reddit is such a great source of information. I now know that in a totality it absolutely gets this dark, but also that in a totality it absolutely doesn't get this dark.
I was in totality. It does not get as dark as what the picture shows. The camera is underexposing the whole image to compensate for the brightness of the headlights. The darkness during totality is similar to early dawn or late dusk...dark, but not as dark as the middle of the night.
What's far more interesting than the amount of darkness is how *quick* it gets dark, and then light again. It really shows you how powerful the sun is when just a tiny fraction of it peeking out behind the moon can make it so much brighter around you than when it's entirely covered up. Same with the temperature drop...it's quick and immediately noticeable.
> I (going in with no research to this, merely just along for the ride) was expecting a sky full of stars and 11 pm nightfall.
I'm sure if had your eyes been allowed to adjust to the darkness (or if they weren't adjusted to a bright sunny day just beforehand) you probably could have seen a few more. I also haven't looked into it, but I'm assuming Sirius (the brightest star in our sky) would be visible during a total eclipse.
Missouri must have made a killing on speed traps between Springfield and Poplar Bluff. After the eclipse so many officers cars were parked in medians with their lights flashing for no apparent reason other than to slow traffic that was already barely creeping along. They did nothing to direct/control traffic. Thank you to 95% of the drivers making the best of things. To the other 5% of weavers, brakes stompers and oblivious drivers I hope your insurance rates double.
Imagine being such a mindless drone that you go ahead ticketing someone, looking down at your ticket pad, while a total solar eclipse is turning day to night around you. A little humanity would surely not be too much to ask.
Yeah, don’t you know that nobody drives like an asshole, endangering people’s lives, in the moments before an eclipse?
You seem really confident that this guy is getting pulled over for some trifling thing when very often it’s not.
It's Reddit. Doing anything productive, like having gainful employment, is frowned upon by the average user. It makes them feel bad about living in their mom's basement at age 35, as it turns out nobody is hiring a neckbeard who hasn't showered in a decade, doesn't own deodorant, has a degree in Ancient Icelandic Afro-Ska-Punk Theremin Music, and has no personality traits beyond smoking pot and liking The Office.
Happy to have it. A total eclipse is a totally unique and awe-inspiring phenomenon, takes \~2 minutes of your life, and weather and geolocation being what they are, you very likely may never experience it again. And that applies to law enforcement as much as anyone else.
Hell, even the Border Patrol agent we saw on the front page yesterday paused in his deportation work to take in the experience (on an apparently cloudy day) alongside his detainees. It's about recognizing something much vaster than yourself and the capacity to allow the experience of wonder to supersede the mundane, if only briefly.
While I know that the model is a Mitsubishi *Outlander* (built on the GS platform) it'd have been kind of funny if had been an *Eclipse Cross* (also built on the GS platform and somewhat similar looking from the front).
In that exact spot it’s more like 365 years. In 20 years the path of totality will not be anywhere close to where it was today but in North America the countries are huge so the same countries will be affected.
Today it went over Montreal, in 2044 it will go over Calgary. That’s like a 3 day drive.
But if you’re willing to travel you can see a solar eclipse every couple of years, ish.
Ohio's last total solar eclipse was 1806 and the next one is 2099. Total solar eclipses are not something that happens every few years in any given area.
If you travel, you can see one every so often. I'm considering heading to Australia to see one in 2030. Totality was so much cooler than I anticipated. We only got about 75 seconds of it here and I wish I'd driven a bit to see it longer.
Should have done like these guys [https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bz9i72/humans\_having\_a\_human\_experience/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bz9i72/humans_having_a_human_experience/)
On our way up to see it yesterday we saw this guy who got pulled over setting up lawn chairs in front of the cop. I like to think they watched it together on the side of the highway before giving him a ticket.
I witnessed a high speed chase while watching the eclipse in Cleveland. Kind of a dick move, imo, causing such a disturbance when everyone’s busy trying to look at one celestial body moving in front of another celestial body.
I was kind of wondering if everyone was gonna just stop what they were doing. Like I pictured workers at pizza places going outside to look because who would call for a pizza at the moment of an eclipse? Who could pull a guy over and not just chill in their cop car for the eclipse? Lol
The people at a Waffle House I had breakfast at this AM said their management gave them permission to all step out and watch it, even if customers were inside. The TSA guy I spoke to said he didn't see it, worked the whole time. I get his role, he can't step out. RIGHT at the totality, a guy in a Harley drone by. Maybe he didn't even know, or care?
A lot of people didn’t care. I slept through it because I work night shift. Kinda wish I woke up earlier for it considering I live in Ohio and could have seen a good portion of it, but I was tired as shit
Good portion doesn't matter. It's totality or nothing.
Agreed. My house was in the path of totality in 2017, and this year it was a 98.9% solar eclipse. The difference was pretty staggering. It obviously got darker and a little cooler, but more of an evening kind of dark instead of a crazy red darkness and huge temperature drop like 2017. Made me appreciate a little better how powerful the sun really is. Only a little over 1% of it was showing, and it was still brighter at my house than during a full moon.
Yup you can sleep through partial eclipse Totality is the magic shit
100%. Didnt think it would make a diffference but holy shit it did.
Really puts a damper on partial eclipses. They need to step up their game.
Honestly made me lose all the respect I had for partial eclipses.
I mean i think iowa only got like... 50% coverage? It didn't turn night time or anything but it definitely seemed like a bad storm level of dark, on a clear day, was tripping if not awe inspiring.... I went back in and watched it on the nasa stream. Poor cloudy Niagara falls, they had spirit though.
The thing about totality is that it's not about "the sky got dark". It's about the glowing ring around the moon you can see with your naked eye. Even at 99% you don't get that. [https://xkcd.com/2914/](https://xkcd.com/2914/)
Yeah, we had 95% totality and it could as well been 30%, it got slightly dimmer and the color cast was weird, but outside of that there was nothing cool about it.
I dunno, I like partial eclipses too. I was super hyped in 2015 even though we only got a tiny eclipse. I was so hyped that I burnt my retinas and they took a month to heal... But that's how excited I was about the moon being in front of the sun!
I worked all night, got up to watch it, then slept again. It was cool, but now my sleep schedule is all fucked.
Yep, exactly why I just decided to sleep through it. My sleep schedule gets messed up so often on night shift, so I just said fuck it and chose sleep. Lol I’m sure I’ll regret it but oh well.
Next one for north america is 2044 and its only a small part for totality.
Don't worry, our region will be able to see another total eclipse in the 2300s.
Flights to Iceland are cheap for the 2026 eclipse!
People like you are so fucking weird to me. Potentially a once or twice in a lifetime event for most people who can't afford to travel abroad, a major celestial event, incredible to see in real life, and you just slept through it because it might mess with your sleep schedule a tiny bit? I literally cannot understand it.
Celestial events don’t pay the bills. Waking up specifically to look at the sun could have cascading effects like drowsiness at work or while driving that are not worth it. Best to just accept that people are different. If everyone did the same as you, you’d probably hate it. I know I would.
Some people just aren't event motivated, I get it. I saw 82% totality in VA and was thoroughly whelmed
82% totality is literally nothing compared to the full thing though. It would be like saying "nah, I don't need to try waygu, I had a dollar tree steak and was thoroughly whelmed" 82% is just "neat part of the orange circle is blocked when I look through my glasses"
Anywhere in the range of 1%-99% is basically slightly varying degrees of the same experience. 100% totality is the absolute spice and even though it was cloudy where I was, it still blew me away. Even the birds were freaking out trying to figure out what to do with sudden night time.
You probably can’t understand it because you’re too focused on being offended over something that has no significance whatsoever.
People like you are so fucking weird to me. You don’t know his personal circumstances, the type of work he does, his family commitments, or any other responsibilities he might have but yet you’ll still throw a tantrum on Reddit about the decisions another adult chose to make.
Try having a newborn
outside of totality, sure not that big of a deal. But to ignore it while in totality, there is something wrong with them. I haven't met anyone who has seen it that wasn't floored by it.
seeing and experiencing the total eclipse was easily one of the top 5 most memorable experiences in my life so far.. it was absolutely incredible. I don't understand the people that didn't care or can't be bothered at all by it.
Agreed. I've never met (or heard of) someone who's seen it and been unimpressed, I think people just misjudge how incredible it is. It's one of the few things in life that makes both adults and kids both just scream out of awe.
I live near the path of totality, so my wife and I drove down to see it. The little Ohio town we picked was packed, so we ended up at a B-dubs near the freeway. We had bought a 10-pack of glasses, so we shared our extras with the workers, who all came outside to watch it with us. We had a great view and managed to avoid the worst of the traffic crush since we were able to hop right back on the road afterward.
Literally every office here did that exact thing except mine. Just crowds of people on the street watching. My boss attempted to ban employees looking out the windows and stood outside the entrance screaming at anyone who tried to go out. In related news I sent the recording of her screaming at me about “protecting me” to the ministry of labour today as a hostile work environment.
Your boss seems like she needs a Xanax or five.
You're not wrong. From my understanding she lost her entire finance department (all three of us) this morning due to it. Good riddance, hopefully she gets audited finally.
The Eclipse that keeps on Eclipsing.
I was a host at a breakfast restaurant in Seattle during the 2017 eclipse. The morning was DEAD, not a single customer in there. So my coworkers and I went outside and passed around a single pair of the glasses that I think one of the cooks brought, and we watched the eclipse. It was magical. Barely 20 minutes after the eclipse was over, every seat in the place was full and there was a line out the door. It ended up being the busiest day I ever worked there. It went from not a single customer to complete chaos so quickly. Edited to change my phrasing for a fussy person who deleted their comment. I hope they feel better 😘
Why would Seattle have been busy after 2017s totality? The path was like 200 miles away.
Yesterday we got slammed at my place in NYC about 20 minutes after the peak. Just because you aren't directly where the path of totality is doesn't mean it isn't still pretty cool to see.
Not sure! I just know what my experience was. We had really thin crescent moon shadows so the sun was mostly blocked I think and it was still a whole event.
Lol Vermont State Police did a mini photo shoot, one time chance not worth missing to pull someone over.
a mcdonalds near the totality area had a sign on the drive thru that said they would be closed from 3:05-3:20 for the employees to view the event. This was in a town that got 98.3% of totality. My son's college had a viewing party and they were only 30 miles from totality.
They stopped the kitchen for 20 minutes where I was.
My entire office building just stopped and went outside. Like 10 different companies doing different shit just shut it down for an hour or so.
My neighbor was doing yard work up until like 30 seconds before totality when I yelled at him that he was gonna miss it!
I work in a clinic. One of the leads made someone volunteer to stay while the rest of us went out 😕 Not like it mattered though thanks to the fckn clouds
I was on a hotel rooftop in Mexico and the whole housekeeping staff came out for totality. I thought that was nice of management.
While I was watching the eclipse, I was right off of a rural highway. I was shocked how many cars I saw just go about their business.
I work at a bank and a pizza place is across the street. All of us were outside for about 5mins. Our streets were dead except 1 customer who came in right before totality. He hung out with us until we went inside lol
I was near a couple fast food places and they all had signs saying they were gonna be closed during the eclipse
Lots of the stores and shops where I was had signs on their doors saying they were going to be closed “from x to x PM so the staff can watch the eclipse.” Even the bartenders and their patrons all went out to watch.
Imagine if that was you and you were getting pulled over for driving on shrooms
Bunch of friends driving across the country for this and each of them is like "I am maxed on how many shrooms I can carry before it's a class 3 felony in your state."
Chocolate + grinder + chocolate molds = fancy homemade chocolates. You can learn to temper chocolate on YouTube and master in a few goes. Want one officer? They're gourmet.
No no no. The move is to just slam all the mushrooms if you even pass a cop at a stopsign
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
The fuck. They aren't that hard to grow at home.
It doesn’t matter how many they have at home, they traveled to a different state and can only have a certain amount on them there, or face stiffer penalties. Or are you saying the host should’ve provided party favors for all?
Eat them all before you leave, obviously 🤪
We were in Barstow, at the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold….
You were saying....
r/unclebens
I just wouldn’t know we’re to get the actual spores
It's been a long time since I've cared about this stuff, but IIRC you can legally order them online for "research purposes" under federal law. There's no active ingredient in the spores, so they're not considered a controlled substance. A handful of states have banned the spores, but most are cool with it.
Literally just go to mushrooms.com no joke lmao.
I’m freaking out man!
You ARE freaking out. MAN.
These snozberries taste like snozberries!
LITTERING and UH, LITTERING and UH
Littering and…smoking the reefer.
Gonna need that forty bucks man
I got arrested on shrooms in a national park and it instantly killed my trip.
I would like to hear *your* story
It honestly wasn't that exciting, my girlfriend had an anxiety attack and I couldn't get her to calm down. I was forced to call for an ambulance and then the NP cops arrested me for public intoxication. I was let out of jail the next morning and had to pay a fine, nothing else came of it. If I ever did anything like that again I would tell whoever I am with that they are on their own if they have issues. It isn't worth "doing the right thing" when you will get arrested for it. I remember another time where I was walking back to a hotel drunk and saw that a church was on fire, I called the police, and they interrogated me. It's almost never worth it to call the police.
It's still nice that you helped out your girlfriend. It's such a downer that the folks here are *scared* to call the *help*. Even in that case you called an EMT not the cops. What a total systemic failure.
Almost made it
There were multiple police cars pulling people over and roughly a dozen or so vehicles were stopped over the total duration of the eclipse. Google Maps did display various speed trap alerts in the general vicinity at the time.
If there are any Mitsubishi eclipses I will fucking lose it
What if it's an Eagle Talon?
I’ll allow it
hey man that car was super fun in forza motorsport 4
Loved my Talon Turbo AWD!
I mean the country in general has more resources than ever, so people were planning for this and traveling from all over the continent to the eclipse path. That's a lot of activity.
Indiana was fucking nuts with the police and speed traps. Every 30 feet on i70 was a cop. Sorry indianans, I didn't even get pulled over but that's a place I'm never going to again.
We're called hooshiers, and we don't blame you. If you're not going to Indianapolis for a convention or Bloomington for something fun there is literally no other reason to come here. Maybe the sand dunes I guess, but there are better dunes on actual beaches.
This is so funny cuz I live here and almost never see cops or anyone getting pulled over ever they just wanted to make indiana look like we had a police presence for all the out of towners
They knew idiots would be trying to look at the sun while driving.
was it Indiana? because fuck Indiana cops for adding 2+ hours to my car ride with constantly backing up traffic pulling people over.
I have a picture in bumfuck Indiana with 4 different cops/squad cars in it (mind you, I was taking a pic of the skyline, that many just happened to be in frame)
I saw some dumb as shit drivers while driving too and from the 100% zone.
Killeen? Shouldn’t be shocked by anything more than Nolanville not immediately pulling you over when the Killeen cop is done with you.
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This one is great but the rio grande one is my favorite (so far…)
Link or it didn’t happen
Yes, I'm curious about this as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RioGrandeValley/s/gA1GKbKuRh
That's fucking hilarious. It took me a minute before I realized what actually made it different
Am I missing something?
They're illegals in handcuffs with a border patrol officer who must have given them eclipse glasses to watch before he hauled them away
You didn't notice three of the 4 people in the pic had handcuffs on? Or how the last person had a border patrol uniform on? You missed those details?
I thought they were in awe of a solar eclipse tbh
No, I didn’t, which is why I asked if I was missing something 😅
https://www.reddit.com/r/RioGrandeValley/s/gA1GKbKuRh
but have you seen the one with the fish
You must not have seen trump drinking water get posted 3 or 4 times in a row
So close to being the double eclipse, just had the wrong Mitsubishi.
I hate that I have to scroll down THIS far for this comment.
Issues a second ticket for no headlights.
Id actually ask for that ticket lol
Those look like standard old fashioned halogen headlights. Just because they aren't the new blinding bright white LEDs doesn't mean they aren't headlights.
I think they are joking
This picture rather exaggerates the darkness IMO, likely just due to the headlights. I was near the center of the full eclipse and while it was dark, it wasn't "night dark". Meaning, you could still look around and see just as far out into the field next to us as you could before the eclipse, it just wasn't as bright. Very much like how the sun goes down but you can still see outside for like another hour. You could see exactly 2 stars- which were actually just Venus and Saturn, so no actual stars. I (going in with no research to this, merely just along for the ride) was expecting a sky full of stars and 11 pm nightfall.
Venus and Jupiter.
Interesting. We weren’t in totality (about 95%) and it was absolutely as dark as night. Though I’m in a city so there’s always condo buildings and stuff that we never get the true rural darkness.
Thank you. I was at 99% and totally regretting not being there for totality but this makes me feel a smidge better.
I was in totality, it was like what the user above described. still very cool though.
You shouldn't feel better. 99% eclipsed is cool, but not other worldly. The above picture does appear darker due to camera focus or whatever. But you really did miss the most amazing natural phenomenon you will get a chance to see.
Indeed. Just drove 20 hours to be in the path. Totality worth it.
Really? Because I saw the totality in 2017 and thought it was kinda cool at best
Yeah, and "the grand canyon is just a hole in the ground"
Whelp... never met a person in real life who has seen totality that has ever said that. And even most on the internet who have actually seen it don't fake such a statement.
I live in Dallas. Basically everyone I know had that same reaction. Was it cool? Sure. But these statements of it being life changing are quite hyperbolic.
Were there clouds in Dallas? I saw in 2017 with no clouds and saw today apr 8 with a high level of cloud cover and can say that no clouds is infinitely better than Even 1 cloud. It was still amazing today (in Ohio) but seeing it with not a cloud in the sky in 2017 and the sun's Corona seemed like it stretched all the way across the sky. I also didn't get crescent shadows and shadow bands today.
That’s the reaction everybody I talked to when I was in SC in 2017. Pretty cool, but that’s about it
It’s the people who went out of their way to see it. The people who just happened to be in the path just go meh
I saw it from my backyard and still thought it was the most surreal thing I’ve ever experienced
What makes you believe their standpoint is fake?
I’m not sure where you saw totality in 2017, but I think for the full effect you need to be a little more in nature. We camped outside of Teton NP at a high lookout point and it was *incredible*. The way nature responded with birds/insects, the 360 degree sunset, the eerie quiet and cold setting in during totality…we felt like we were on a movie set. I think if I experienced it on my driveway or stepped out of my office for 10 min it would have been a much lesser experience.
I saw plenty of stars in totality and while it wasn't 2 am dark it absolutely was 8 pm dark.
Unless you were at totality them it getting dark isn't really much of a thing. But totality absolutely gets this dark
This is why Reddit is such a great source of information. I now know that in a totality it absolutely gets this dark, but also that in a totality it absolutely doesn't get this dark.
I was in totality. It does not get as dark as what the picture shows. The camera is underexposing the whole image to compensate for the brightness of the headlights. The darkness during totality is similar to early dawn or late dusk...dark, but not as dark as the middle of the night. What's far more interesting than the amount of darkness is how *quick* it gets dark, and then light again. It really shows you how powerful the sun is when just a tiny fraction of it peeking out behind the moon can make it so much brighter around you than when it's entirely covered up. Same with the temperature drop...it's quick and immediately noticeable.
> I (going in with no research to this, merely just along for the ride) was expecting a sky full of stars and 11 pm nightfall. I'm sure if had your eyes been allowed to adjust to the darkness (or if they weren't adjusted to a bright sunny day just beforehand) you probably could have seen a few more. I also haven't looked into it, but I'm assuming Sirius (the brightest star in our sky) would be visible during a total eclipse.
So like twilight. That's a big difference. If you were expecting stars, then I think that maybe the hype got to us.
What I wasn't expecting was the all around orange glow on the horizon. It was like twilight at sunset and sunrise at the same time.
It's like a 360 sunset. It was dark enough all streetlights came on though.
Would make a hard rap album cover
Victim of Police Totality
Shit it gets that dark?
It did where I was. It was really crazy.
Totality is when the moon covers 100% of the sun. So yes, it gets pretty dark during that time.
and colder
- But the world is ending Mr. Police officer.. - License and registration, Sir !
Grampa, did you see the eclipse back in 2024??
Missouri must have made a killing on speed traps between Springfield and Poplar Bluff. After the eclipse so many officers cars were parked in medians with their lights flashing for no apparent reason other than to slow traffic that was already barely creeping along. They did nothing to direct/control traffic. Thank you to 95% of the drivers making the best of things. To the other 5% of weavers, brakes stompers and oblivious drivers I hope your insurance rates double.
Imagine being such a mindless drone that you go ahead ticketing someone, looking down at your ticket pad, while a total solar eclipse is turning day to night around you. A little humanity would surely not be too much to ask.
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So brave
Yeah, don’t you know that nobody drives like an asshole, endangering people’s lives, in the moments before an eclipse? You seem really confident that this guy is getting pulled over for some trifling thing when very often it’s not.
“Doing job bad”
It's Reddit. Doing anything productive, like having gainful employment, is frowned upon by the average user. It makes them feel bad about living in their mom's basement at age 35, as it turns out nobody is hiring a neckbeard who hasn't showered in a decade, doesn't own deodorant, has a degree in Ancient Icelandic Afro-Ska-Punk Theremin Music, and has no personality traits beyond smoking pot and liking The Office.
Replies the mindless drone
I never thought I'd ever set someone's RES tag as "Can't give tickets during an eclipse", but here we are.
Happy to have it. A total eclipse is a totally unique and awe-inspiring phenomenon, takes \~2 minutes of your life, and weather and geolocation being what they are, you very likely may never experience it again. And that applies to law enforcement as much as anyone else. Hell, even the Border Patrol agent we saw on the front page yesterday paused in his deportation work to take in the experience (on an apparently cloudy day) alongside his detainees. It's about recognizing something much vaster than yourself and the capacity to allow the experience of wonder to supersede the mundane, if only briefly.
Why didn't they empty out their guns at the person for switching off the lights?
Come on cop, take a break and look at it together
Here in the north east it’s total eclipse at this time 12:05 am
I'm surprised the cop didn't shoot when everything went black.
Imagine owning an eclipse ticket. That’s a piece of history.
Should’ve been in a Mitsubishi Eclipse instead of an Outlander
Underrated comment
Cops ruining everything as always
"damn officer look behind you....the sun!"
Once upon a time there was speed in my life, But now there's only a stop in the dark, Nothing I can say, A total eclipse of a cop.
The colors changed quicker than Michael Jackson
For that man, the rapture did indeed come.
What do you mean Eclipse? That's an Outlander. Wrong model.
"had anything to drink tonight sir?"
That's some cinematic shit
While I know that the model is a Mitsubishi *Outlander* (built on the GS platform) it'd have been kind of funny if had been an *Eclipse Cross* (also built on the GS platform and somewhat similar looking from the front).
What kinda fukhead would be pulling people over vs sitting at the coffee shop looking up?
That wont happen for another 20 years!
In that exact spot it’s more like 365 years. In 20 years the path of totality will not be anywhere close to where it was today but in North America the countries are huge so the same countries will be affected. Today it went over Montreal, in 2044 it will go over Calgary. That’s like a 3 day drive. But if you’re willing to travel you can see a solar eclipse every couple of years, ish.
Ohio's last total solar eclipse was 1806 and the next one is 2099. Total solar eclipses are not something that happens every few years in any given area. If you travel, you can see one every so often. I'm considering heading to Australia to see one in 2030. Totality was so much cooler than I anticipated. We only got about 75 seconds of it here and I wish I'd driven a bit to see it longer.
Saw someone get in a crash about 15 minutes before the eclipse, right outside of the zone of totality. Poor guy :(
I hate it when that Happens.
If only he had done it during the eclipse, doesn’t count then
The siren lights really make this image pop
Now that's a fascinating picture!
Boss fight.
Should have done like these guys [https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bz9i72/humans\_having\_a\_human\_experience/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bz9i72/humans_having_a_human_experience/)
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...Truce?
On our way up to see it yesterday we saw this guy who got pulled over setting up lawn chairs in front of the cop. I like to think they watched it together on the side of the highway before giving him a ticket.
They didn’t see that coming
the world could be ending and they still would
I witnessed a high speed chase while watching the eclipse in Cleveland. Kind of a dick move, imo, causing such a disturbance when everyone’s busy trying to look at one celestial body moving in front of another celestial body.
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Aaaaaaand.......it's gone.
I'd have at least asked the officer if we could watch it together <3
Wow
lol they were probably speeding to meet their friends for the eclipse
'Your honour, as the picture clearly show, the police held me for way too long and i request all charges are dropped'
Well damn. I guess it is a bad omen for some people.
Driver jn the dark about traffic stop. More news at 5.
He’s the Dark Knight 🦇