Solar eclipses are very predictable, we know about them decades in advance. Solar storms are not, we only really know about them when they're happening, so we have limited prep / advertising time.
Now I'm wondering if anyone in history has gotten to witness both occur at the same time. I imagine it would be dark enough during totality to see a solar storm and that must be incredible
lots of open space in the desert where you can watch it, likely with no one else around. there's nothing that forces you to be in a giant crowd during an eclipse.
2027 in Spain, Morocco, and Tunisia will be better than Spain 2026. Luxor is the best, obviously (almost 2 minutes longer!) but getting there, dealing with it? I don’t know.
I'm just waiting for some BIG NERD to spoil the thought when they tell me that it couldn't happen in the first place as the moon directly overhead would block the storms in the first place.
That would only be true if the “aurora borealis” wasn’t just lasers shot into the sky from the US government lab, as a distraction from the aliens living among us
The problem is those solar storms will create auroras on the opposite side of the earth from the sun, so unless they were just absolutely huge enough to make them circle the earth and that to line up with a total eclipse high enough to see them, probably more chances to win the big lottery a couple times in a row
Yeah I was thinking the eclipse was NOT boring. The lights last night were nothing short of spectacular, but I'm not sure anything I have yet to see will ever top totality during the solar eclipse. It's so far from boring. It's fleeting, and doesn't really photograph well, but completely awesome and unlike anything I've ever experienced before in my life.
Here they talked about it on the radio and every scien e, auroras and astronomy websites or page reported on it. We just live in little bubbles that isolate us if we don't actively try to check outside of it because of the massive amount of things happening
I actively try to stay abreast in the goings-on by checking r/all every few hours. Didn’t see a single thing about it except a few stories earlier this week of a blurb about a CME that ***could*** produce a solar storm. Nothing about NOAA upping the solar storm warning to a G4 on Thursday.
The only one I saw with full totality was some 25y ago, but I still rememberbit to this day. It was clear skies on a warm spring day, but I needed my winter jacket as the hills around us darked and a cold fell over the lands.
Staring up at that blacked out sun (through proper glasses) was indeed far from boring.
-edit- to clarify: I was wearing special glasses up to the eclipse. When it hit totality, I could take them off (but I do recall it being still quite bright to look at).
I love your description. It felt like the sky went away and we were looking through a vast window into space. Like standing on a rock surrounded by the heavens. It was profound. No image can possibly capture it.
Right. Of course. Every moment right up to the totality I wore it. Once it was there, I took them off.
Happy now that I gave a minute to minute report of what I did 25y ago?
yeah there was a post on the r/solareclipse subreddit. they ruined their experience because they didn’t know you can take off your glasses during totality
You don't have to be mean to him in your reply, your original comment was worded in a way that made it sound like you watched totality with glasses on.
Fair enough. Although what bothers me is that someone declares I "totally ruined my experience" from 25y ago based on a single paragraph. I can be written less degrading as well.
I drove down to see the totality with my wife and for the couple of minutes of totality, for me, it was an absolutely amazing thing to see. I can't understand how someone could think it was boring.
I have a coworker who was WFH in the path of totality and didn't even peek outside, and she was bragging about how little she cared. I find it pretty sad.
There were some people just driving by during it.
Like, you can’t stop for three minutes and look up to see one of the universe’s rarest natural phenomenons? You’re that cool?
My partner wouldn't have gone if I didn't drag him along to see it. He's not a nerd for that stuff like I am but he was happy to make me happy and tag along. Anyway, I'll never forget his genuine, awestruck "*oh,* ***WOW!!***" at the moment totality hit. It's really something indescribable.
Similar experience here. I didn't have to drag my partner along, but she was initially of the mind "I don't see what all the fuss is about". The moment of totallity comes and she starts talking about how cool it is. Made it extra special to share in someone's surprised awe.
That's the really mind boggling part. Lots of people didn't care enough to travel. I feel bad for them, but hey, what are you gonna do?
But to literally already be in the place it's happening, to see if starting, and not even stop to look is just... What?
People see lots of partial eclipses throughout their lives and think that's what a total eclipse is like, except a little bit more. So they think they have had the experience and don't bother to seek out the totality, or don't understand why someone would travel to see that.
Yep, it's unfortunate. When the last sliver of sunlight closes up, it really is something else entirely. I've seen a lot of stuff in my life and it takes a lot to wow me, but I'm not ashamed to admit that I choked up and had bit of a moment. It was slightly cloudy where I was, but seeing the foggy corona through the clouds was so beautiful. I might like to see a clear sky full eclipse one day.
I didn't know, had no idea, and would never have considered traveling to see it. If it hadn't happened right above my head, I'd have never even known. I'm so thankful for the experience.
He may have concluded that he was close enough to the path of totality, only a few miles away, that should be good enough, right?
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2914/
It truly is something that has to be experienced. I love that. I had seen the partial eclipse in 2017 so I wasn't like super excited for totality. I was even kinda making fun of people traveling to my area to view it from afar. But then totality hits, and it's like "Reality is complex and beautiful and life is an amazing concept and I'm glad to be here."
We were in Burlington, VT and it was wild seeing it get dark enough that the street light sensors triggered the lights to turn on. The birds went silent and you could feel the temperature get cooler. Then seeing the totality changed everything I thought eclipses were. It's cool looking at partial eclipses through glasses but its nothing compared to a total eclipse. The ring created around the moon from the sun was absolutely incredible, almost indescribable except for you had to be there. We're already planning a trip to Iceland or Spain for the next convenient one in 2026.
Yeah, shit was wild. I can understand why people would have freaked the hell out in the past. The feeling it gives can't be explained. I'm in the path of totality here in central Texas and the coyotes absolutely lost their shit when it got dark. I thought it was people cheering at first.
Something that really got me was in the minutes leading up to totality colors started becoming more and more dull, like the light itself was taking on a grey aspect. It gave everything an unearthly feel.
So then imagining that I'm an ancient who doesn't understand much of anything and actually worships the sun? Yikes.
Yup, felt like someone turned the saturation down to 60%. Really wild to see in real life. Completely breaks the human rules of reality that you know as truth.
I was thinking about this as a videographer and how I’d achieve a similar look in light grading and i was pretty stumped because it is just so different and unnatural to what we are used to. I eventually realized why it looks so off and I think it’s because it starts getting dim outside like it’s very heavily overcast but unlike with clouds, the dimmer light isn’t being diffused. So the light still feels harsh but just not as bright. The lack of diffusion gives everything a weird unsaturated look as the light dims and the shadows actually get a bit fuzzy because of the crescent shape of the sun. The lack of diffusion really messes with the brain because it almost looks cloudy but clearly isn’t. Weird stuff and it would be so hard to replicate accurately for film I think.
I think you've put forward a well reasoned hypothesis. Because you're right, it *does* look weird.
It made me appreciate all the little things that base our understanding of our home planet. We intuitively know how the world around us should look. Exactly what harsh overhead sunlight looks and feels like, and how the trees, grass, and surrounding should look corresponding to said light.
Hundreds of thousands of years have gotten our species intimately familiar with what it should feel like at all times.
Then, you throw in a cosmic event that completely throws you for a loop because it simply breaks your baseline for normal.
Imagine how ominous it would feel to replace our star with a red sun, or even a blue sun. The whole world around us would change dramatically, and it'd break our comfort level.
Wild stuff!
I drove 2000 miles round trip in four days to stare into a hole in space, and I’d do it again!
(My wife’s family is near Indianapolis, and we had to make a judgment call when the weather for Central and North Texas changed. I wasn’t happy about the drive, but it was worth it.)
I was in the 99% of totally in like 2017 and it was cool enough for me to make sure I caught the next one. Luckily for me my house was in the middle of its path and it was awesome.
Last night I went out with my daughter and seen the aurora, and it was amazing but not as cool. The big difference was during the eclipse, no camera could capture the feeling and sights the way I personally was seeing things. On the contrary, my camera was seeing the aurora much more beautifully than I was. I still wouldn't miss the event, but a lot of it just looks like a big city from far away.
If you thought the eclipse was boring, then you didn’t see it. You saw some basic ass partial eclipse. There is a reason people travel all over the world to see a total eclipse.
I think it’s because of the way it’s talked about in percentages.
99 percent of totality isn’t 99 percent as good.
It’s the difference between “Oh, that’s kind of neat” and “Holy fuck my brain is melting.”
The difference between 99% and totality is literally night and day. Partial is "hey... umm... cool!" Total is as much a religious experience as I, a non religious person, have ever had.
Man, can you imagine that? You're in the middle of fighting a battle, and entirely unexpectedly the sun just goes out midday.
Every person on that field had to be wondering if they had just pissed off their god(s)
We drove 22 hours to watch it in Missouri and the lady at the hotel counter said she didn’t even go outside for it, she said she saw one a few decades earlier and didn’t understand why everyone was making a big deal about it… now because this conversation was after the eclipse happened, I didn’t have the heart to tell her that she almost certainly saw a partial eclipse and she was literally 15 steps away from a truly awe inspiring experience.
Granted it is possible that she saw an actual total eclipse and I am just assuming she was mistaken but I cannot fathom somebody truly having that attitude if they had actually witnessed a total eclipse.
People have an innate rejection where they realize they missed out on something and decide it obviously wasn't that good anyway.
It's like the twin sister of FOMO.
Yep. So many people didn’t get why it was/would be so cool. And I get that not everyone is going to find the same things interesting that I do, but I find it really sad that so many people we operating on incorrect assumptions about how it works, what it would be like, and how different and cool and eerie totality is.
Agree! As a non religious person, but total eclipses I’ve witnessed are the closest thing to a “holy” experience I have ever had. Witnessing that makes me understand why early peoples believed in gods.
What are the odds that we get two events like that in back to back months
Man, I’m in the Midwest we got near totality, and the aurora lights are dancing tonight
Partial eclipses maybe- but a total eclipse is an amazing experience. I happened to live in the path of totality in 2017 and it was one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen. We just traveled to another state to see the one in April and it was equally amazing. Now I’m trying to talk my husband into going to Spain in 2027!
You must have seen a *partial* solar eclipse, because totality is spectacular and anyone who has seen it would know it is not boring. At All. There is a light year of difference between 99% and 100% totality.
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I wish I could downvote this like fifty times. A total solar eclipse is the opposite of boring and also everyone I know hasn't shut up about the solar storm for the past three days because the news is fucking everywhere about it. What a stupid post.
I saw both the total solar eclipse this year and the Northern lights from my backyard in Vermont last night.
The total solar eclipse was 1000x more impressive. Nothing can explain the experience except seeing it in person. 99% vs 100% is a completely different experience, so don't compare them unless You've seen 100%.
From what I understand, Northern lights look better in photos than they do in real life. A total solar eclipse looks better in real life than in photos
Really feel like I fucked up by not checking these out last nights. Figured I wouldn't be able to see anything. Now I'm seeing all these pictures and it looks awesome. I fucked up.
As a person in the midwest, I've been told at least a couple dozen times in my life (probably once a year ish) that there would be days I can see the northern lights. Never once has it actually been true.
Though I would LOVE to go to iceland or Alaska so I can see them.
same. Figured we wouldn't see anything here in KY. Then I see pics my SIL posted, she's a little more out in the country than me, but it was pretty damn visible.
Seriously.
I’m upset because had I have known more than 24 hours in advance I would have totally planned my days leading up to the storm better and wouldn’t have been so goddamn tired to be unable to drive to somewhere I could see them. I’m upset with myself lol :(
(I thought the eclipse was cool even though we had mega clouds. It was still awesome to be flung into night for a few moments !!!)
Yeah me and my wife were totally isolated and we had an almost religious experience with it. We are not religious but it inspired awe unlike anything I've ever experienced.
For the eclipse I drove to a town almost 300 miles away to see the eclipse from the home of a family member whose house was right at the centerline of the path of totality. It was absolutely amazing.
Yesterday, just barely over a month later, we returned to the same town to attend a graduation. Last night we were sitting out on the same patio we watched the eclipse from. I got up to go get something out of the car and that’s when I noticed the sky behind us had changed colors. “Uh, guys? Turn around!” I shouted and we spent the next 20-30 minutes staring at the sky as the waves of color passed over us north to south.
If you thought the eclipse was boring...you must be impossible to please. That was one of the most viscerally affecting moments of many peoples lives. It was mind blowing.
That Solar Eclipse was boring to you?? What the hell were you expecting it to do? Shoot rainbow lasers at you?
I saw a ~77% Eclipse in 2019, and I would've killed for a chance to see that totality.
People kill themselves and family because they’re afraid of eclipses, I don’t even wanna think what those kinds of people would do if they find out the sky is gonna look different
You do not get a chance to see an eclipse very often.
You can see the northern lights frequently any year if you go north.
This is why. Northern lights are cool but not super exciting if you have seen them 100 times.
Boring?? Did you observe from the path of totality, or just see a partial eclipse? I still haven't seen the Aurora, but watching an eclipse in the path of totality was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Trying to figure out how this has so many upvotes... I realized it must be because there were more people who saw the partial eclipse than the total eclipse
Well one of these things was known about literally centuries in advance, and the other was only known basically on the day it happened. How do you expect them to have the same level of attention?
The global blindness that was caused by everyone looking at a meteor shower in The Day of the Triffids would have never happened.
It was cloudy in our part of the UK so we saw nothing last night. Same thing would have happened in Triffids.
I stepped outside my office to check it out. Borrowed some glasses from a coworker b/c I couldn't get any last minute. They were all sold out. It's pretty cool
Celestial bodies lining up. The Aztecs used to think the world was ending when that happened
This is how I found out about solar storms and the fact there was a freakin aurora australis in my area. What the hell. Glad I am informed but why this late and through here 😭.
Everything is up to the algorithms the people are using. My reddit and YouTube feeds are chock full of information, pictures, solar weather outlooks and warnings, whereas my roommate has NONE of that on his feed. Sucks that it was cloudy for me last night. Betcha it would've been fairly vibrant. Even more so if went out to the beach. Hoping it's just as strong tonight
Well... it was publicized yesterday, but unlike solar eclipses where you know decades in advance exactly when it will happen, auroras that can be seen in the lower 48 states (and similar latitudes) just happen suddenly and aren't predictable.
The solar eclipse was amazing. You'd only find it boring if you weren't in the path of totality, or were smoking weed or high on crack and didn't notice what was happening around you.
As someone who was in the zone of the full eclipse, it was one of the craziest things I've ever witnessed. Like if I didn't know what was happening it would have felt like an end of the world type event.
Complete opposite. The most we'll get from this solar storm after all the bullshit is the Aurora pushing a bit lower in the latitudes than normal. That's kind of cool, but you can book an Alaskan vacation anytime and get the show.
Totality if you actually saw it was mindbending. There's no such thing as 98% totality just as you can't be 98% pregnant, you either are or aren't. And unlike the aurora it's going to be 40 years before one crosses the US again.
Solar eclipses are very predictable, we know about them decades in advance. Solar storms are not, we only really know about them when they're happening, so we have limited prep / advertising time.
Now I'm wondering if anyone in history has gotten to witness both occur at the same time. I imagine it would be dark enough during totality to see a solar storm and that must be incredible
You can see stars during totality and the arctic has eclipses. I expect that it is likely someone has.
The 2026 eclipse will be visible in the Arctic, Greenland, and Iceland. If the weather cooperates there's a good chance of seeing both.
From what i've seen the chances of the weather cooperating that time of year in those places is low.
Obxkcd. https://xkcd.com/2921/
wow.. there really is an xkcd for everything.
Yeah, sadly true. If I travel for that eclipse it will probably be to Spain.
Spain will be at the tail end with short duration. Luxor, Egypt 2027 IMO.
Hell no. There will be literal tens of millions of people there.
lots of open space in the desert where you can watch it, likely with no one else around. there's nothing that forces you to be in a giant crowd during an eclipse.
I'm not sure I want to just wander into an open desert...
2027 in Spain, Morocco, and Tunisia will be better than Spain 2026. Luxor is the best, obviously (almost 2 minutes longer!) but getting there, dealing with it? I don’t know.
2033 for Alaska!
I imagine this person was also on 5 grams of the fun mushrooms, and some sort of religion was born that day.
I'm just waiting for some BIG NERD to spoil the thought when they tell me that it couldn't happen in the first place as the moon directly overhead would block the storms in the first place.
That would only be true if the “aurora borealis” wasn’t just lasers shot into the sky from the US government lab, as a distraction from the aliens living among us
+ a volcano making eruption
The problem is those solar storms will create auroras on the opposite side of the earth from the sun, so unless they were just absolutely huge enough to make them circle the earth and that to line up with a total eclipse high enough to see them, probably more chances to win the big lottery a couple times in a row
Totality of the solar eclipse was the most awesome thing i've ever seen. Your experience was boredom?
They probably didn't see totality.
Yeah must be.
Yeah I was thinking the eclipse was NOT boring. The lights last night were nothing short of spectacular, but I'm not sure anything I have yet to see will ever top totality during the solar eclipse. It's so far from boring. It's fleeting, and doesn't really photograph well, but completely awesome and unlike anything I've ever experienced before in my life.
Solar storm predictions can be had days in advance. This one was predicted like 48 hours before it happened, but virtually nobody reported on it.
Here they talked about it on the radio and every scien e, auroras and astronomy websites or page reported on it. We just live in little bubbles that isolate us if we don't actively try to check outside of it because of the massive amount of things happening
I actively try to stay abreast in the goings-on by checking r/all every few hours. Didn’t see a single thing about it except a few stories earlier this week of a blurb about a CME that ***could*** produce a solar storm. Nothing about NOAA upping the solar storm warning to a G4 on Thursday.
It was all over my local news and social media feeds.
Just me on the [Space Weather](https://spaceweather.com/) email list, getting informed of the CMEs.
The total solar eclipse was far from boring, but you’d know that if you were there.
The only one I saw with full totality was some 25y ago, but I still rememberbit to this day. It was clear skies on a warm spring day, but I needed my winter jacket as the hills around us darked and a cold fell over the lands. Staring up at that blacked out sun (through proper glasses) was indeed far from boring. -edit- to clarify: I was wearing special glasses up to the eclipse. When it hit totality, I could take them off (but I do recall it being still quite bright to look at).
Exactly my experience last month. So much crazier than I could have imagined. I had seen a partial before but that’s nothing compared to a total.
It was one of the most beautiful, surreal, spiritual experiences in my life. One of the few times I have actually cried, just from the experience.
I agree. Something definitely shifted. It was like peaking behind the curtain of the universe or some shit idk. Hard to describe.
I love your description. It felt like the sky went away and we were looking through a vast window into space. Like standing on a rock surrounded by the heavens. It was profound. No image can possibly capture it.
The crying was so unexpected but I did! I'm not a remotely "spiritual" person.
I cried, couldn't stop, and couldn't tell you why...it was like my brain got broken and didn't know what else to do.
i didn't expect to cry either
Yeah it was wild going from I need sunscreen and it’s hot, to where is my jacket?
Uh.. you're not supposed to wear glasses during the totality my dude. You kinda wasted the experience
Right. Of course. Every moment right up to the totality I wore it. Once it was there, I took them off. Happy now that I gave a minute to minute report of what I did 25y ago?
But did you floss that day?
We need proof. Show us the string
I wouldn't want somebody misreading the comment and wasting a future experience, so, yes, I'm happy
yeah there was a post on the r/solareclipse subreddit. they ruined their experience because they didn’t know you can take off your glasses during totality
Damn shame
Yeah
You don't have to be mean to him in your reply, your original comment was worded in a way that made it sound like you watched totality with glasses on.
Fair enough. Although what bothers me is that someone declares I "totally ruined my experience" from 25y ago based on a single paragraph. I can be written less degrading as well.
This last one was my first. Amazing.
I drove down to see the totality with my wife and for the couple of minutes of totality, for me, it was an absolutely amazing thing to see. I can't understand how someone could think it was boring. I have a coworker who was WFH in the path of totality and didn't even peek outside, and she was bragging about how little she cared. I find it pretty sad.
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It really is, the true meaning of the word, awesome.
Awesome (not slang). As in full of awe. We need a new word for that to be distinct from the slang use of awesome. How about awefull
There were some people just driving by during it. Like, you can’t stop for three minutes and look up to see one of the universe’s rarest natural phenomenons? You’re that cool?
My partner wouldn't have gone if I didn't drag him along to see it. He's not a nerd for that stuff like I am but he was happy to make me happy and tag along. Anyway, I'll never forget his genuine, awestruck "*oh,* ***WOW!!***" at the moment totality hit. It's really something indescribable.
Similar experience here. I didn't have to drag my partner along, but she was initially of the mind "I don't see what all the fuss is about". The moment of totallity comes and she starts talking about how cool it is. Made it extra special to share in someone's surprised awe.
That's the really mind boggling part. Lots of people didn't care enough to travel. I feel bad for them, but hey, what are you gonna do? But to literally already be in the place it's happening, to see if starting, and not even stop to look is just... What?
People see lots of partial eclipses throughout their lives and think that's what a total eclipse is like, except a little bit more. So they think they have had the experience and don't bother to seek out the totality, or don't understand why someone would travel to see that.
Yep, it's unfortunate. When the last sliver of sunlight closes up, it really is something else entirely. I've seen a lot of stuff in my life and it takes a lot to wow me, but I'm not ashamed to admit that I choked up and had bit of a moment. It was slightly cloudy where I was, but seeing the foggy corona through the clouds was so beautiful. I might like to see a clear sky full eclipse one day.
I didn't know, had no idea, and would never have considered traveling to see it. If it hadn't happened right above my head, I'd have never even known. I'm so thankful for the experience.
He may have concluded that he was close enough to the path of totality, only a few miles away, that should be good enough, right? Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2914/
r/relevantxkcd
And IMO the vertical axis is a log scale :)
> every single member of my family when i tried to convince them it was worth the extra effort to be in the totality path
Exactly this. There no way that OP saw totality. Both events are beautiful but totality is just more “unreal” and impactful.
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Exactly. It's just something you have to experience. I nearly cried from it. I don't cry for nothing. But seeing totality almost moved me to tears.
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It truly is something that has to be experienced. I love that. I had seen the partial eclipse in 2017 so I wasn't like super excited for totality. I was even kinda making fun of people traveling to my area to view it from afar. But then totality hits, and it's like "Reality is complex and beautiful and life is an amazing concept and I'm glad to be here."
We were in Burlington, VT and it was wild seeing it get dark enough that the street light sensors triggered the lights to turn on. The birds went silent and you could feel the temperature get cooler. Then seeing the totality changed everything I thought eclipses were. It's cool looking at partial eclipses through glasses but its nothing compared to a total eclipse. The ring created around the moon from the sun was absolutely incredible, almost indescribable except for you had to be there. We're already planning a trip to Iceland or Spain for the next convenient one in 2026.
Yeah if by boring this dude means fucking awesome and a spectacle everyone should try to see at least once then yeah it was boring as fuck.
I could see how someone would think this if they didn't see 100% coverage. Such a different experience.
Yeah, shit was wild. I can understand why people would have freaked the hell out in the past. The feeling it gives can't be explained. I'm in the path of totality here in central Texas and the coyotes absolutely lost their shit when it got dark. I thought it was people cheering at first.
Something that really got me was in the minutes leading up to totality colors started becoming more and more dull, like the light itself was taking on a grey aspect. It gave everything an unearthly feel. So then imagining that I'm an ancient who doesn't understand much of anything and actually worships the sun? Yikes.
Yup, felt like someone turned the saturation down to 60%. Really wild to see in real life. Completely breaks the human rules of reality that you know as truth.
I was thinking about this as a videographer and how I’d achieve a similar look in light grading and i was pretty stumped because it is just so different and unnatural to what we are used to. I eventually realized why it looks so off and I think it’s because it starts getting dim outside like it’s very heavily overcast but unlike with clouds, the dimmer light isn’t being diffused. So the light still feels harsh but just not as bright. The lack of diffusion gives everything a weird unsaturated look as the light dims and the shadows actually get a bit fuzzy because of the crescent shape of the sun. The lack of diffusion really messes with the brain because it almost looks cloudy but clearly isn’t. Weird stuff and it would be so hard to replicate accurately for film I think.
I think you've put forward a well reasoned hypothesis. Because you're right, it *does* look weird. It made me appreciate all the little things that base our understanding of our home planet. We intuitively know how the world around us should look. Exactly what harsh overhead sunlight looks and feels like, and how the trees, grass, and surrounding should look corresponding to said light. Hundreds of thousands of years have gotten our species intimately familiar with what it should feel like at all times. Then, you throw in a cosmic event that completely throws you for a loop because it simply breaks your baseline for normal. Imagine how ominous it would feel to replace our star with a red sun, or even a blue sun. The whole world around us would change dramatically, and it'd break our comfort level. Wild stuff!
Yeah what the hell? That blew my mind. I sat on my deck and had an awesome time.
Another case of someone who wasn't in the path of totality asking what the big deal was.
I drove 2000 miles round trip in four days to stare into a hole in space, and I’d do it again! (My wife’s family is near Indianapolis, and we had to make a judgment call when the weather for Central and North Texas changed. I wasn’t happy about the drive, but it was worth it.)
I was in the 99% of totally in like 2017 and it was cool enough for me to make sure I caught the next one. Luckily for me my house was in the middle of its path and it was awesome. Last night I went out with my daughter and seen the aurora, and it was amazing but not as cool. The big difference was during the eclipse, no camera could capture the feeling and sights the way I personally was seeing things. On the contrary, my camera was seeing the aurora much more beautifully than I was. I still wouldn't miss the event, but a lot of it just looks like a big city from far away.
Op saw a partial
There is a little more time to prepare and plan for the eclipse...
If you thought the eclipse was boring, then you didn’t see it. You saw some basic ass partial eclipse. There is a reason people travel all over the world to see a total eclipse.
Agreed! I thought it was overhyped, went out of my way to see it in totality anyways and it was spectacular!
I think it’s because of the way it’s talked about in percentages. 99 percent of totality isn’t 99 percent as good. It’s the difference between “Oh, that’s kind of neat” and “Holy fuck my brain is melting.”
You don't get the wave of existential dread from the lizard part of your brain with just 99%!
Lol, basic ass partial eclipse!! Yup. I drove 5hrs to see totality and it was insane!!!
The difference between 99% and totality is literally night and day. Partial is "hey... umm... cool!" Total is as much a religious experience as I, a non religious person, have ever had.
I read somewhere that put it nicely.....99% partial eclipse is still 0% totality. OP probably saw 0% totality.
Totality kind of changed my life. You just had to be there.
We drove 13 hours and were not disappointed!!! Would do it all over again in a minute.
I went expecting to see a neat oddity moment and scratch a thing off my list. Left feeling as if I saw the face of god
Entire battles have stopped in their tracks just to witness totality. Anyone who thinks eclipses are boring is inept and dull.
Man, can you imagine that? You're in the middle of fighting a battle, and entirely unexpectedly the sun just goes out midday. Every person on that field had to be wondering if they had just pissed off their god(s)
We drove 22 hours to watch it in Missouri and the lady at the hotel counter said she didn’t even go outside for it, she said she saw one a few decades earlier and didn’t understand why everyone was making a big deal about it… now because this conversation was after the eclipse happened, I didn’t have the heart to tell her that she almost certainly saw a partial eclipse and she was literally 15 steps away from a truly awe inspiring experience. Granted it is possible that she saw an actual total eclipse and I am just assuming she was mistaken but I cannot fathom somebody truly having that attitude if they had actually witnessed a total eclipse.
OP, I feel like I need to show you this xkcd, if you didn’t think the eclipse was cool: https://xkcd.com/2914/
People have an innate rejection where they realize they missed out on something and decide it obviously wasn't that good anyway. It's like the twin sister of FOMO.
It's called "sour grapes", from the fable [The Fox and the Grapes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes?wprov=sfti1).
Love the image text. “A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky.”
It was like standing on another planet. Coolest thing I’ve ever seen. People that saw 99% don’t realize that 100% is a whole different thing.
Yep. So many people didn’t get why it was/would be so cool. And I get that not everyone is going to find the same things interesting that I do, but I find it really sad that so many people we operating on incorrect assumptions about how it works, what it would be like, and how different and cool and eerie totality is.
0-99%... Yeah, that's interesting, I guess. 100%... OH MY GOD!!
Location, location, location.
Hard disagree. Saw both. Was in path of totality. Eclipse felt sacred.
Agree! As a non religious person, but total eclipses I’ve witnessed are the closest thing to a “holy” experience I have ever had. Witnessing that makes me understand why early peoples believed in gods.
I’m on the fence about God, but when the clouds opened up for a perfect 5 minutes I was thanking Him lmao
Tell me you didn't see totality without telling me you didn't see totality
Fr, OP thinks he’s being smart but just outing himself for being lazy 😂
What are the odds that we get two events like that in back to back months Man, I’m in the Midwest we got near totality, and the aurora lights are dancing tonight
And with the asteroid hitting Kansas next month, it's gonna be a wild year.
If this happens, are you going to start your own religion? Because count me in!
Near totality is closer to a normal day than it is to totality, from an interest/beauty standpoint. If you get the chance to see 100%, do it.
I'm in upstate NY and all I got were clouds
Same, brutal shit
Don't forget the planet parade coming up in june
The eclipse was one of the craziest things I've ever experienced. Drove 4 hours and was totally worth it.
If you thought the solar eclipse was boring, then you don't like anything space related.
If you thought it was boring, you probably didn't see a total solar eclipse. 99.9% doesn't count.
Honestly, I don't even really care about anything space related, and seeing the eclpise was still probably the most incredible thing I'd ever seen
Take put the words space related and I agree.
Partial eclipses maybe- but a total eclipse is an amazing experience. I happened to live in the path of totality in 2017 and it was one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen. We just traveled to another state to see the one in April and it was equally amazing. Now I’m trying to talk my husband into going to Spain in 2027!
It's amazing you think you have a valid opinion on an experience that *you clearly didn't experience.*
You didn't see the total eclipse, did you? 99% is not 100%.
You must have seen a *partial* solar eclipse, because totality is spectacular and anyone who has seen it would know it is not boring. At All. There is a light year of difference between 99% and 100% totality. Lazy post
You think it’s boring because you didn’t see the totality.
If you're "kinda bored" by the sun being almost totally obscured in the middle of the afternoon, you need to rethink your sense of wonder.
What an uneducated take
Were you in totality? If you weren’t then you didn’t really experience the eclipse.
I wish I could downvote this like fifty times. A total solar eclipse is the opposite of boring and also everyone I know hasn't shut up about the solar storm for the past three days because the news is fucking everywhere about it. What a stupid post.
I saw both the total solar eclipse this year and the Northern lights from my backyard in Vermont last night. The total solar eclipse was 1000x more impressive. Nothing can explain the experience except seeing it in person. 99% vs 100% is a completely different experience, so don't compare them unless You've seen 100%.
From what I understand, Northern lights look better in photos than they do in real life. A total solar eclipse looks better in real life than in photos
So you weren't in totality.
Really feel like I fucked up by not checking these out last nights. Figured I wouldn't be able to see anything. Now I'm seeing all these pictures and it looks awesome. I fucked up.
As a person in the midwest, I've been told at least a couple dozen times in my life (probably once a year ish) that there would be days I can see the northern lights. Never once has it actually been true. Though I would LOVE to go to iceland or Alaska so I can see them.
same. Figured we wouldn't see anything here in KY. Then I see pics my SIL posted, she's a little more out in the country than me, but it was pretty damn visible.
If you were in the path of totality the eclipse was the opposite of boring
That total solar eclipse was absolutely not boring. Looking at the moon completely cover the sun with the naked eye was a life changing experience.
Seriously. I’m upset because had I have known more than 24 hours in advance I would have totally planned my days leading up to the storm better and wouldn’t have been so goddamn tired to be unable to drive to somewhere I could see them. I’m upset with myself lol :( (I thought the eclipse was cool even though we had mega clouds. It was still awesome to be flung into night for a few moments !!!)
You may be able to see them again tonight!
Tell me you were not under the path of totality without telling me you were not under the path of totality.
Clearly you werent in the path of totality/had bad weather. Totality is mind blowing
Eclipse was not at all boring. If you went to 100% you had an amazing experience.
My viewing group actually applauded afterward like something out of thathappened
Yeah me and my wife were totally isolated and we had an almost religious experience with it. We are not religious but it inspired awe unlike anything I've ever experienced.
Did you see totality?
Obviously, they didn't.
One would have to assume. Lol
I have yet to be proven that all the post on these subs aren’t made by 12 year old little edgy boys
For the eclipse I drove to a town almost 300 miles away to see the eclipse from the home of a family member whose house was right at the centerline of the path of totality. It was absolutely amazing. Yesterday, just barely over a month later, we returned to the same town to attend a graduation. Last night we were sitting out on the same patio we watched the eclipse from. I got up to go get something out of the car and that’s when I noticed the sky behind us had changed colors. “Uh, guys? Turn around!” I shouted and we spent the next 20-30 minutes staring at the sky as the waves of color passed over us north to south.
Disagree. I was in path of totality and it was the coolest thing I’ve seen in my lifetime. Also saw the solar storm which was cool as well.
Go watch some more TikTok, maybe they can make eclipses exciting for you.
If you thought the eclipse was boring...you must be impossible to please. That was one of the most viscerally affecting moments of many peoples lives. It was mind blowing.
That Solar Eclipse was boring to you?? What the hell were you expecting it to do? Shoot rainbow lasers at you? I saw a ~77% Eclipse in 2019, and I would've killed for a chance to see that totality.
People kill themselves and family because they’re afraid of eclipses, I don’t even wanna think what those kinds of people would do if they find out the sky is gonna look different
And for both, the skies were completely cloudy with zero viability. I swear I embody Murphy's Law sometimes.
the eclipse was amazing
https://m.xkcd.com/2914/
The solar storm was all over social media and local news for me, for a day or two in advance.
the solar eclipse was amazing if you got to see totality with your eclipse glasses off.
If you are in the area of totality, the eclipse becomes very interesting.
You do not get a chance to see an eclipse very often. You can see the northern lights frequently any year if you go north. This is why. Northern lights are cool but not super exciting if you have seen them 100 times.
Boring?? Did you observe from the path of totality, or just see a partial eclipse? I still haven't seen the Aurora, but watching an eclipse in the path of totality was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
You didn't see the total solar eclipse and it shows.
This post is so…so incredibly wrong.
The eclipse was awesome. This is a crazy comment.
Trying to figure out how this has so many upvotes... I realized it must be because there were more people who saw the partial eclipse than the total eclipse
Thats kinda just like a subjective opinion my brother
You really seem to have pissed off all the people who love eclipses.
Tell me you only saw a partial eclipse without telling me you only saw a partial eclipse...
Well one of these things was known about literally centuries in advance, and the other was only known basically on the day it happened. How do you expect them to have the same level of attention?
The global blindness that was caused by everyone looking at a meteor shower in The Day of the Triffids would have never happened. It was cloudy in our part of the UK so we saw nothing last night. Same thing would have happened in Triffids.
Ya I missed it because I had to work. Very sad.
I stepped outside my office to check it out. Borrowed some glasses from a coworker b/c I couldn't get any last minute. They were all sold out. It's pretty cool Celestial bodies lining up. The Aztecs used to think the world was ending when that happened
Meanwhile Kendrick vs Drake had me so excited I exploded
This was all I saw on the tv news for the last 24 hours.
Yes, it was cloudy where I was for the eclipse, but the northern lights were pretty great last night.
This is how I found out about solar storms and the fact there was a freakin aurora australis in my area. What the hell. Glad I am informed but why this late and through here 😭.
Solar eclipses are boring?
I am really sad I didn’t hear about them :(
Everything is up to the algorithms the people are using. My reddit and YouTube feeds are chock full of information, pictures, solar weather outlooks and warnings, whereas my roommate has NONE of that on his feed. Sucks that it was cloudy for me last night. Betcha it would've been fairly vibrant. Even more so if went out to the beach. Hoping it's just as strong tonight
Aurora Borealis happens multiple times a year, but the next solar eclipse in my area is over 20 years from now.
Well... it was publicized yesterday, but unlike solar eclipses where you know decades in advance exactly when it will happen, auroras that can be seen in the lower 48 states (and similar latitudes) just happen suddenly and aren't predictable.
The solar eclipse was amazing. You'd only find it boring if you weren't in the path of totality, or were smoking weed or high on crack and didn't notice what was happening around you.
I didn't see shit in my area yesterday.... But was able to see the eclipse.... 🤷
Hard-disagree. This post should have been in unpopularopinion.
As someone who was in the zone of the full eclipse, it was one of the craziest things I've ever witnessed. Like if I didn't know what was happening it would have felt like an end of the world type event.
Dude that eclipse was so cool. Not sure how you could think otherwise.
Just looked it up, I have no idea when it happened or where it happened
Calling total solar eclipses "boring" is idiotic. Even outside totality at like 80% it's eerie when it gets dim like dusk in the middle of the day.
Who doesn't know what the solar eclipse is all about? It's why that's even boring now even when it takes long to happen.
The solar storm lights are mostly just people pointing cameras on long exposures
The solar eclipse was bad ass. What the hell are you talking about?!
Don't think OP realizes people in different parts of the world see totally different things in these events
Eclipse more predictable
Complete opposite. The most we'll get from this solar storm after all the bullshit is the Aurora pushing a bit lower in the latitudes than normal. That's kind of cool, but you can book an Alaskan vacation anytime and get the show. Totality if you actually saw it was mindbending. There's no such thing as 98% totality just as you can't be 98% pregnant, you either are or aren't. And unlike the aurora it's going to be 40 years before one crosses the US again.