David Chen
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Bonus Audio: Seeing the Solar Eclipse, Soap Etiquette
🕑 Added 2024-04-10 22:52:37 +0000 UTCIn this piece of Patreon bonus audio, David and @joyonapping discuss what it was like to experience a solar eclipse with 100% totality in Indianapolis this week. Also: What is the proper etiquette when it comes to shared bars of shower soap?
PATRONS: You can get this audio in your podcast app by going to patreon.com/davechen,going to the "My Membership" section, and copying and pasting the RSS link to your podcast app.
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Joe Darcy
I was grateful to have seen a few moments of totality in the Austin area for this eclipse since the prevailing clouds blocked many peoples' view; looking at options for 2026 already... A quick tl;dr on why totality is different lengths for different eclipses, as mentioned in the podcast the orbits of the earth around the sun and the orbit of the moon around the earth are both ellipses rather than circles. Since the orbits are ellipses, the distance between the two bodies differ at different points in the orbit -- if the orbits were a circles, the distance would always be the same. So, if an eclipse happens when the earth is far way from the sun and when the moon is close to the earth, the eclipse will be extra long because the moon is relatively bigger in the sky compared to the sun. On the flip side, if an eclipse happens when the earth is close to the sun and when the moon is far way from the earth, totality will be less. We don't get eclipses every month because the plane of the moon-earth orbit is offset by several degrees from the earth-sun orbit. HTH
Del Nakamura
2 haikus: ass flecks be damned, soap- so primitive. one asks why? use body wash. duh inspired by chen-joy south heading, wind and accord gaze up and enjoy my eclipse experience with some visual flourish: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t5bUwoMqqB9bRuu-N51Fmm5lPyONmToV/view?usp=sharing
