tribepolt.blogg.se

Joss Fong, who produced the video, shared the following on Twitter: Update: Before the 2017 eclipse, Vox talked to some eclipse chasers about what it's like to witness a total solar eclipse. Next time, and there will definitely be a next time, I'm hoping to get up high somewhere so I can see the shadow and more of the 360-degree sunset. We saw the wall of shadow coming, and screamed before it hit. If you think very fast, you may have time to think, "Soon it will hit my brain." You can feel the deadness race up your arm you can feel the appalling, inhuman speed of your own blood. Seeing it, and knowing it was coming straight for you, was like feeling a slug of anesthetic shoot up your arm. It rolled at you across the land at 1,800 miles an hour, hauling darkness like plague behind it. No end was in sight - you saw only the edge. Language can give no sense of this sort of speed - 1,800 miles an hour. I have since read that this wave of shadow moves 1,800 miles an hour. It was the monstrous swift shadow cone of the moon.

We no sooner saw it than it was upon us, like thunder. The second before the sun went out we saw a wall of dark shadow come speeding at us. But something else was happening at that same instant, and it was this, I believe, which made us scream. (I have since read that screaming, with hysteria, is a common reaction even to expected total eclipses.) People on all the hillsides, including, I think, myself, screamed when the black body of the moon detached from the sky and rolled over the sun. Sparkling planets came out in a midnight sky.īut back to Dillard's piece.this part, about the shadow rushing towards them, sounds amazing: Entire landscape shifted, valleys, hills, mountains painted in nightcolour and cold. I understand now why people chase the eclipse. Sparkling ring, sun fire ghostly streaming, darkest circle. 10/10 Would recommend.Īnd on a mountaintop for totality was crossing into another dimension, suddenly finding ourselves on another world. Totality is so much different than even 99%. Probably the coolest thing I've ever seen. But none of that stuff really happens unless you're really close to totality.and then it goes completely dark and your brain turns inside out. It was neat - look, there's a chunk out of the Sun - but they thought it would be darker or that the air would get colder. I heard lots of disappointment with the eclipse among friends and on social media. Although the one experience precedes the other, it in no way prepares you for it. Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him, or as flying in an airplane does to falling out of an airplane. It bears almost no relation to a total eclipse. In an essay from 1982 about her seeing a total solar eclipse in Washington (recently republished in this collection), Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard puts into words what I only attempted to express in my eclipse experience.