WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:06.639 Astonishing Legends Network Disclaimer. This episode includes the usual amount 2 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:09.560 of adult language and graphic discussions you've come to expect 3 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:12.480 around here, but in the event it becomes an unusual amount, 4 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:14.240 expect another call from me. 5 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:17.800 Hey, everybody, welcome back to Scaret all the time. I'm 6 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:19.239 your host, Chris Klari. 7 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:22.800 And I'm Ed. And I can't see and Ed can't. 8 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:25.800 See because we are wearing our safety glasses because this 9 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:29.640 week on the show, we are taking a long look 10 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:34.679 at the sun. Well, not directly at the sun. Don't please, 11 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:37.520 don't look directly at it. We're going to take a 12 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:40.799 look at solar eclipses. The next one is coming up 13 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:43.039 in about a week, on August twelfth, and it's going 14 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:48.520 to be visible over the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic Ocean, 15 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:51.000 northern Spain, and parts of Portugal. And if you're in 16 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:53.200 those parts of the world and listening to this show, 17 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:56.079 you probably already know that's going to be a total 18 00:00:56.439 --> 00:00:57.320 solar eclipse. 19 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:59.399 Wait, see these glasses, we don't need these here, We. 20 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:01.079 Don't need these here. We could actually take these off. 21 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:03.759 Oh and then we could see all right, Oh that's better, 22 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:04.640 that's better. 23 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:07.319 Oh, I mean, I've been hanging on to these for 24 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:09.920 the next solar eclipse for a long time and hasn't happened. 25 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:11.920 So we're going to talk a little bit about these 26 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:14.480 glasses in a little bit, but I want to start 27 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:19.560 by saying, in modern times, solar eclipses feel fun. You 28 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.040 order these little cardboard glasses, you go stand in a 29 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:25.640 parking lot with your coworkers, you go oooh for ninety seconds, 30 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:28.079 and then you go back inside and probably post about it. 31 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:28.719 That is fun. 32 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:33.920 But that reaction, that fun reaction, makes us historical outliers, 33 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:38.000 because for basically everyone who has ever lived before us, 34 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:41.920 the daytime sky going dark was the single most terrifying 35 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:44.400 thing that could happen. It was a sign that either 36 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:47.159 a god was dying or a demon was lose, so 37 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:50.359 the world was ending, or at the absolute minimum, that 38 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:52.840 you and everyone you loved are about to get eaten 39 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:56.719 by some creature from the sky. And look, our ancestors 40 00:01:56.719 --> 00:01:59.519 were not entirely wrong to be scared. And eclips can 41 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:02.040 hurt you. It can reach down out of the sky 42 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:04.359 and brand a scar into the back of your eyeball 43 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:07.159 painlessly in a couple of seconds, and you won't feel 44 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.240 a thing until your vision starts to go, but as 45 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:13.960 far as solar eclipse horrors go, that's honestly the best 46 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:17.520 case scenario. Sovirtu your eyes and turn up the podcast. 47 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:21.000 We're about to shed a little light on solar eclipses. 48 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:28.759 What are we screw? When are we all the time? Now? 49 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:29.479 Which is time? 50 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:31.719 Full time scat. 51 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:34.120 All? Right? 52 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:37.400 Let me start by saying that I know solar eclipses 53 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:40.719 are not exclusively a summer thing. They don't just happen 54 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:42.599 during the summer, but I thought that they would be 55 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:45.199 good for the summer year because we're about six days 56 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:48.919 out from a pretty significant one, and solar eclipses are 57 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:49.840 Sun related. 58 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:51.039 Sun and Sun is summer. 59 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:53.800 Sun is summer ed. I ask you what is more 60 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:57.280 summery than sun? I can't think of it, literally nothing. 61 00:02:57.439 --> 00:02:59.919 So maybe we'll just do the sun next summer. That 62 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:01.479 that's probably a good one. There are a lot of 63 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:04.319 terrifying things about it. But until then, we're going to 64 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:07.319 talk about what happens when it seems like it disappears 65 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:11.199 from the sky completely. Before we get into our personal 66 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.840 experiences with eclipses, as we usually start off the show 67 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:16.840 with our personal fear connection. 68 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:18.280 You're going to say, with the Sun, and I was like, 69 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:20.120 every morning I wake up and that piece of shit 70 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:20.680 it's still there. 71 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:22.520 Still it's welcoming. 72 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:24.879 Viting life, but also being annoying. 73 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:27.919 Being annoying, burning your skin, especially out here. 74 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:29.960 Yep, chasing you if you're Mario. Mm hmmm. 75 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:34.759 Before we get into our experiences of solar eclipses, though, 76 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:37.439 I do think it's probably good to just clue the 77 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:40.599 entire audience in if they aren't aware on what exactly 78 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:44.560 a solar eclipse is. So, in a total solar eclipse, 79 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:48.439 the Sun seems to completely disappear from the sky. It's blocked. 80 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:51.439 There are a big black circle goes in front of it, 81 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:52.759 and you can't see the Sun. 82 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:54.439 It's not even like an iris or like a ring. 83 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:58.000 Sometimes there is, yes, but when an eclipse happens, it 84 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:02.520 is being covered up or eclipsed by the Moon sliding 85 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:05.199 directly between the orbit of the Earth and the orbit 86 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:09.120 of the Sun. And the first crazy fact about eclipses 87 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:12.840 is that the only reason they happen and the way 88 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:15.599 that we see them on Earth is because the Sun 89 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:19.279 is about four hundred times wider than the Moon, and 90 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:22.519 it also happens to be about four hundred times farther away, 91 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:25.759 which means when the Moon comes directly between the Earth 92 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:29.519 and the Sun, it blocks out the Sun exactly. They 93 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:32.160 look to us to be about the same side. 94 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:32.519 That worked out. 95 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:37.759 Yeah. Yeah, it's a really wild coincidence. And according to NASA, 96 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:41.519 that's not a thing that has to happen scientifically. It's 97 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:43.920 just a thing that happens to be true right now 98 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:46.920 on Earth at this point in time, and it won't 99 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.759 be true forever because the Moon is slowly drifting away 100 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:51.519 from our planet. 101 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:52.639 I get it, I've met us. 102 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:56.519 Well, it's not our fault, humanity, humanity, you and. 103 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:58.480 I oh yeah, yeah, we're saying, if you have the 104 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:01.120 opportunity to go, go. You never hear a billionaires talking 105 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:03.040 about fixing anything here, right. 106 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:05.120 Yeah, Well, they talk about they want to put some 107 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:07.360 bases on the moon, But the Moon is drifting away 108 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:09.800 and in a few hundred million years there won't be 109 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:13.360 any total eclipses at all because the Moon will be 110 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:15.680 in a different position, and so it won't be able 111 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:19.959 to fully eclipse the Sun. When the moon does eclipse 112 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:20.720 the Sun, and. 113 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:22.720 A big pizza pie. 114 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.519 When the moon hits the Sun like a big pizza pie. 115 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:31.000 As the song famously goes. NASA also tells us that 116 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:34.160 the people on Earth who are located in the center 117 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:38.680 of the shadow that the Moon casts will experience a 118 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:43.279 total eclipse. The sky will darken almost to dawn or 119 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:48.800 dusk even darker, and weather permitting, people standing in that path, 120 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:51.319 depending on how clear the sky is, will be able 121 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:54.519 to see the Sun's corona or the outer atmosphere, which 122 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:55.720 is what I think you were talking about. 123 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:57.240 Yeah, yeah, that's what Iran talking about. 124 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:00.199 Normally, you can't see the corona because the Sun is 125 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.480 so bright. First of all, you shouldn't be looking at it. 126 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:04.279 But if you were to look at the Sun, then 127 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:06.879 you can't see the atmosphere because the light of the 128 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:10.000 Sun is so bright, it doesn't it doesn't appear to 129 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:13.680 the eye. If you aren't directly in the Moon's shadow 130 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:16.000 when it slides in front of the Sun, you'll see 131 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.959 a partial eclipse, which is much more common. And again, 132 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:20.959 depending on where you are in the world, some people 133 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:23.560 are experiencing a total eclipse, while the rest of us 134 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:26.399 are only experiencing a partial eclipse. They're not, They're the 135 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:30.639 same celestial event. Just depends on your perspective, Okay, And 136 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:32.920 if you're seeing a partial eclipse. That's the one where 137 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:35.319 it looks like the moon has taken a bite of 138 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:36.920 the Sun or there's a crescent. 139 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:38.639 You know, they're all fun. 140 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:41.360 They're all fun, they're all pretty cool. And there are 141 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:43.879 three other types of eclipses that we won't really get into. 142 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:46.720 There's annular, partial, and hybrid, which are all kind of 143 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.680 majestic in their own ways, but none of them hold 144 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.399 the same kind of power over the human imagination as 145 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:57.879 a full total solar eclipse, even though we know much 146 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:01.600 more now about what caused his solar eclipses than our 147 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:06.240 ancestors ever did. I don't think experiencing an eclipse in 148 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:09.079 the present day makes it. I don't think it's any 149 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.000 less powerful of an experience than when people thought it 150 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:13.920 was a sky god eating the Sun. 151 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:16.160 No, it's cool. I mean it's it's a little less 152 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:18.399 powerful experience because I have a good picture from the 153 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:21.519 last eclipse of like a local news reporter just dressed 154 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:24.759 like the sun and it just sucked and it was 155 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.399 like this epic event, and then this person being like, Eh, 156 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:29.920 this is Chad from w I hate my fucking life. 157 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:34.079 Sun's getting the way of the moon or whatever. 158 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:36.759 The Moon's getting in the way of the Sun. Let's 159 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:39.000 let's keep let's try to keep that straight. It is 160 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:40.720 the moon blocking out the Sun? 161 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:43.879 I don't know, or yeah, I think each time it is, you. 162 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.360 Know it is, it is every time if the Sun 163 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:48.920 blocked out the moon, I don't know that you would notice. 164 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:52.079 I mean, there are lunar eclipses. I guess that's what. Oh, No, 165 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:54.920 the lunar eclipse is when the Earth gets between the Sun. 166 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:56.959 Yes, that's what I'm saying. There's no way the Sun's 167 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:58.120 the Sun's just not It's not. 168 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.360 Possible, right right, right, The Sun is at this really 169 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:06.040 far away. What's so majestic about it? Is that? And 170 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:09.079 it's it's sort of because of our perspective on Earth. 171 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:12.240 It's sort of hard to keep this in mind. Maybe, 172 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:15.560 but we are watching a moon block out a star 173 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.360 in real time. I mean it's about as Oh, it's 174 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:24.040 force perspective, but yes, it's forced perspective, but it still 175 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.759 is an awe inspiring force perspective. Look, I know a 176 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.199 lot of Lord of the Rings was done with forced perspective, 177 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:31.600 and that's still pretty impressive. 178 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:33.399 This time, I have the glasses, all right, I don't 179 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:35.879 have to be told about awe inspiring. I have the glasses. 180 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:38.120 I like looking at it. It's fun. I have no 181 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:40.320 money to travel for whatever this one is, but I 182 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:41.759 have glasses. 183 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:46.399 I think. The novelist James Fenimore Cooper captured the experience 184 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:49.279 well after he witnessed an eclipse in upstate New York, 185 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:53.440 and years later he recalled it vividly, saying, quote, I 186 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:56.399 shall only say that I have passed a varied and 187 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:00.919 eventful life, that it has been my fortune to see Earth, evans, ocean, 188 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:04.320 and man in most of their aspects, he wrote, But 189 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:08.240 never have I beheld any spectacle which so plainly manifested 190 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:11.120 the majesty of the creator, or so forcibly taught the 191 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:14.559 lesson of humility to man as a total eclipse of 192 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:14.960 the sun. 193 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:16.720 Well, year, do you write that? It's a long time 194 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:18.159 ago before the moon landing? 195 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:20.240 Yes, since before the moon landing. I don't know what 196 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:21.600 year he actually wrote this. 197 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:24.559 Probably is that what he's trying to convey there is 198 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:27.600 what the like is what Earth rise the picture should 199 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:31.080 be conveying to everyone. It seems like people have forgotten that. 200 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:35.279 Yeah, I mean, I would also argue that whatever lessons 201 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:38.440 of humility that man was so forcibly taught by the 202 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:41.080 eclipse that he witnessed were forgotten pretty quickly. 203 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:42.639 Yeah. Yeah, with social media. 204 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:46.679 We are not a humble species. Because the experience of 205 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:51.200 a total eclipse is so majestic, people have gone to 206 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:57.279 genuinely unhinged lengths to experience them for as long as 207 00:09:57.360 --> 00:09:58.639 possible when they happen. 208 00:09:59.039 --> 00:09:59.360 So ed. 209 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:02.799 Have you ever heard the movie Endless Summer? Yeah, yeah, 210 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:04.799 it's a documentary from the night of the poster. 211 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:06.559 Better than I've never sat through the movie. 212 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:08.679 My grandparents showed it to me when I was a kid, 213 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.879 and I don't think I really particularly enjoyed it at 214 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:14.120 the time. But as with most of the movies they 215 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:16.080 showed me as a kid, I've rewatched them and gone, 216 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.799 oh wow, they were trying to instill good taste in me. 217 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:20.159 But yeah, it's a great poster. 218 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:22.519 It's a great poster. The movie itself, if you haven't 219 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:26.480 seen it, is a documentary about a surfer who travels 220 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:30.120 around the world to always be surfing in the summer, 221 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:32.360 to have an endless summer where you can surf in 222 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:36.799 every cool location around the globe. And in nineteen seventy three, 223 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:39.600 a team of scientists sort of tried to do the 224 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:43.440 same thing. Within Eclipse. They loaded onto a Concord jet, 225 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:46.559 the supersonic jet that we don't use anymore less because 226 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:47.679 it explodes too much. 227 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:51.519 Only twice. Only twice. I mean it's a little weird. 228 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:55.120 Only twice, and then we've given up supersonic flight commercially. 229 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:58.080 A little weird. We had that, and then we stepped 230 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:00.320 backwards as a society, and that's weird. 231 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:02.399 It is a little bit. But you know, I wonder 232 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:07.440 if it's partially because it was not a particularly common 233 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:09.799 I mean it was common in the sense couldn't. 234 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:10.919 Fly a lot of places. They had to fly over 235 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:12.799 the water, so it can only fly to like New 236 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:13.919 York to England. 237 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:16.879 Yeah, Australia couldn't fly a lot of places, and it 238 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:18.600 was an expensive ticket. 239 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:21.279 It was, and wasn't. I'd be interested to see what 240 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:23.720 the difference is just between a first class price now 241 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:27.399 in twenty twenty six with a fucking oil crisis versus 242 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:30.759 like a coach seat if that existed on that right, 243 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:33.480 But it was even when it existed, the Concord was 244 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:37.120 really built for a very small segment of society, and 245 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:41.600 so I think two jaw droppingly awful explosions that captured 246 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:44.440 the world's headlines was probably enough to make it a 247 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:49.039 financially unsustainable business after that. An interesting point to that, 248 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:51.240 when they were before they all blew up, they was 249 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:53.639 already at a financially unstable business because they just didn't 250 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:57.799 have enough routes. And I think I read something somewhere 251 00:11:57.919 --> 00:11:59.879 where it was like the people over there were like, 252 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:01.519 we need to charge more for tickets. It's like, how 253 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:04.279 much should we charge? And it was like, almost everyone 254 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:07.759 who flies the Concord it's a fucking corporate expense. They 255 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:10.679 probably know what they're spending. So they just were like, 256 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.639 just charge whatever we want and see what happens. And 257 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:15.960 so they charged like way more than they thought was 258 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:18.840 like not it was okay, but like, ye, we'll see, 259 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:23.080 we'll see, they said price, and they just kept getting 260 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:27.159 tickets sold because they were all like just corporate business cards. 261 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:31.399 It was no most real regular people weren't flying the Concord, 262 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:35.600 but they were exclusively flown by executives first class whatever. 263 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:37.919 They realized at that moment, like, yeah, these are all 264 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:40.440 corporate expense accounts, Like no one's even gonna notice what 265 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:40.960 we're charging. 266 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:42.919 So did they ever have to bring the price down 267 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:45.000 because someone did notice what they were charging. 268 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:47.720 No, I think they all crash you for that happened. 269 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:50.000 But I think they were like, oh shit, because it's 270 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.279 a we could do a whole episode on the concord. 271 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:54.919 But America was one of the three countries that were 272 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:56.679 supposed to be like paying for it. Like a bunch 273 00:12:56.720 --> 00:12:59.759 of countries went in on it, and then America bailed 274 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:02.120 the life minute to make the dreamline or whatever because 275 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:03.840 they were like, hey, you might have more it's a 276 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.000 very American thing to do, where basically they were like, oh, 277 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.639 you might be able to fly a ton more times 278 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:13.639 back and forth from New York to London than we can, 279 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:16.000 but we'll just build a plane so big that we 280 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:18.120 can sell more tickets that will come out the same. 281 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:21.480 We'll have less times back and forth, but we'll have 282 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:24.200 so many more fares, right and so. But I think 283 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:25.720 they told them pretty late in the game and kind 284 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:27.240 of left them in the lurch a little bit. 285 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:29.639 Is that part of why I was poorly engineered and 286 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:32.240 exploded a lot because maybe we pulled out I don't. 287 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.559 Know, I don't know. I haven't revisited that long article 288 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:35.320 in a long time. 289 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.080 Well, in this case, the concord was used for a 290 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:42.240 very unique purpose, which was this team of scientists again, 291 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:45.919 this was nineteen seventy three. They got onto the concord 292 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:50.320 the supersonic jet and they chased an eclipse across Africa 293 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:53.720 at faster than the speed of sound. So they wanted 294 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:57.559 to stay inside the totality of the eclipse as long 295 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:01.600 as they could as the Earth and they were able 296 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:05.279 to stay inside the total darkness for about seventy four minutes, 297 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:10.000 which is the longest that anyone ever could possibly experience 298 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.039 in eclipse. Well, I guess you could ride, you could 299 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:15.399 ride the shadow for longer, but on the ground, NASA 300 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:19.519 says the absolute theoretical maximum you could ever get out 301 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:22.360 of a total solar eclipse is around seven and a 302 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:25.919 half minutes, and that almost never happens. So they were 303 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:29.639 in totality for ten times as long as any human 304 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:32.879 being has ever been or probably will be. Although I 305 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:35.759 didn't look up prices, apparently I saw my research. There 306 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:41.000 are commercial airlines that still offer special eclipse flights, so 307 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:43.759 when they know that they're going to be I think 308 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:46.159 it was even just like American airlines, if they know 309 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:48.960 they're going to be flying the route through the path 310 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:52.559 of totality. They'll they make it like a special thing, 311 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:54.559 that's fun. You can buy tickets for it. 312 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:56.240 Sure, we can't afford it, probably not. 313 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:59.159 But if anybody wants us to record a live episode 314 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:02.879 from the SKA, yeah, while experiencing a fear of flying 315 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:06.639 and eclipses, you know what to do. Send us those tickets. 316 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:07.360 Yeah. Sure. 317 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:10.320 Most total eclipses, the longest is seven and a half. 318 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:13.600 Most total eclipses give us two, three, maybe four minutes 319 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:17.240 if we're lucky. The longest one coming this millennium in 320 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:20.799 July of the year twenty one eighty six. 321 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:22.480 Well, I'm not gonna be wrong for that. 322 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:25.120 No, but it'll clock in it's seven minutes and twenty 323 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:29.159 nine seconds. So it's about the longest that anyone could 324 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:33.320 ever possibly experience if you are in Colombia, Venezuela or 325 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:35.639 Guyana where the totality will be visible. 326 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:37.360 Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say it's gonna go 327 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:38.279 for forty one minutes. 328 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:40.039 No, it's not, though I think is. 329 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:41.639 I'm not gonna be here to find out I'm wrong, 330 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:44.679 So just you heard it here. First, everyone, get down 331 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:46.840 to Colombia, it's gonna be a forty one minute fucking 332 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:47.639 of darkness. 333 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:49.679 You heard it here first, everyone, I'm gonna bury it 334 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:52.600 on a hill in Guyana so that his corps will 335 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:56.039 be forced to watch him being wrong. Dude, probably market 336 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:00.399 Now on the other end of eclipses, the shortest total 337 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:05.159 solar eclipse happened on February third, nine, nineteen, the year 338 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:10.399 nine to nineteen, and lasted just nine seconds. Since you 339 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:12.519 and I ed were born in the mid eighties, the 340 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:16.240 US has experienced about fourteen major solar eclipses, two of 341 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:19.159 which have been total throughout lots of the United States. 342 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:22.320 One of them was in nineteen ninety four. Do you 343 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:23.159 remember that one? 344 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:24.440 No? 345 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:26.600 Okay, well this is where else this is? I guess 346 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.519 we're all stop and ask and say do you remember 347 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:31.519 ever seeing a total solar eclipse? 348 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:35.279 I remember seeing eclipses. I've never stopped to confirm whether 349 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:37.519 it was a partial or a total. What was it 350 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:38.279 one like a year ago? 351 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:43.559 Well, so that one I believe was twenty seventeen, or 352 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:45.320 maybe was there one in twenty twenty four? 353 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:48.480 It was just these glasses or not deteriorated to nothing. 354 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:49.600 It must have been a pretty. 355 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:52.639 Recent Yeah, well, you would remember if. 356 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:54.840 You were ever if someone Trump looked directly at that. 357 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:57.240 Was the one in twenty seventeen, that was total. That 358 00:16:58.279 --> 00:16:59.039 not where he was. 359 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:01.120 That's where I got. That's what I'm pretty sure that's 360 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:02.120 when these glasses are from. 361 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:05.759 Yeah, these glasses probably are from twenty seventeen. Let's see 362 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:07.039 if there's a date on them. 363 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:09.680 It has a lot of like First off, it's by 364 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:13.200 a company called Medical King Medical King, and I like 365 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:17.440 that it conforms and meets the transmission requirements of whatever filters. 366 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:19.039 But I also don't know if they just stamped that 367 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:20.960 on there. Well, we'm not gonna be able to confirm that. 368 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:22.799 We're going to talk about that. And it's in a 369 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:23.559 little bit here. 370 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:25.640 But before this, I think I would have any other 371 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:28.160 eclipse I looked at before purchasing this, it would have 372 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:31.680 just been through my dad's welding mask. Like my dad's 373 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:33.759 welding helmet. It is probably the only way we looked 374 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:34.200 at shit. 375 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:37.400 You would remember if you'd experienced a total eclipse, because 376 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:41.000 the sky goes dark. It's not like U like the 377 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:41.960 sun is blocked. 378 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:44.279 Well, I was here, you know what. I don't know 379 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:46.680 if even the twenty seventeen one was totally eclipse because 380 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:50.119 it was because I want to say that in my backyard, 381 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:53.880 they're like the dappled light right from the trees was 382 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:55.119 like little crescent moons. 383 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:58.240 Yes, that happens. That happens many places where you get 384 00:17:58.279 --> 00:17:59.359 the partial I don't know. 385 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:01.359 If I ever saw a total clips. 386 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:04.279 I'm pretty sure the one in nineteen ninety four, the Heart. Well, 387 00:18:04.680 --> 00:18:06.960 we've all experienced a total eclipse with the heart at 388 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:08.079 one time, rightah, yeah. 389 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:11.119 But never never. Don't think I've ever seen total clips. 390 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:14.440 I remember maybe it didn't maybe it didn't pass over Connecticut. 391 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:16.279 I feel like it must have been nineteen ninety four 392 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:19.519 because in Pennsylvania, I remember, I didn't know it was 393 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:22.160 nineteen ninety four, but I remembered in elementary school there 394 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:24.480 was definitely one that our school had. It was like 395 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:26.400 a big deal, like we did a unit on it 396 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:29.039 and then we had like little I think we maybe 397 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:31.279 watched it through the shadow, you know. 398 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:34.519 I think we built a stupid box thing. Yeah, exactly, 399 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:36.319 think we built like a now that you're saying it, 400 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:39.160 I think our class built a dumb thing made of 401 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:42.319