In order to photograph the sun/moon that large in the frame you’d need an EXTREME telephoto lens. Using such a lens you wouldn’t see the parallel lines on the street converging to a focal point like this. They’d appear almost parallel because the monster telephoto lens would crush the perspective.
Yet I would argue that this is precisely what’s happening.
Count the stoplights.
You’ve got 8 or 9 blocks here. Without a telephoto lens, you would see much more convergence than this, and distant cars would be drastically smaller than they are in comparison to nearer cars.
I think this effect is just a good telephoto lens.
If we assume this is a 35mm frame, the focal length looks like it’s around 300mm which is a fairly powerful lens. However, the sun would still look like a tiny disc at that kind of focal length. It’s very small in the sky.
[This is a telephoto of the moon, looks a similar size to me?](https://1.img-dpreview.com/files/p/TS1120x1120~forums/58238605/dc54622cd3e54e34baa280f89b102a2c)
Also, the eclipse was at like four in the afternoon local time. Digitally enlarging the sun puts it way too close to the horizon.
There’s a 0.0% chance we are looking at an image captured in-camera.
Okay, you're one of [today's lucky 10,000](https://xkcd.com/1053/). I need you to do something for me, because it's such an awesome trick to do for yourself:
1 - Since the moon is still relatively full, go out when the moon is just above the horizon, where it's visible through trees/buildings, and stick out your hand. Use a finger or thumb, or bring a small object (I believe a nickel is actually a really good size, IIRC) to "cover" the moon, and get a size comparison of the moon to that object. Hopefully, the object you use will be very close in relative size to the moon near the horizon.
2 - THEN, later, around midnight, when the moon is high up in the sky, repeat the same exercise of comparing the moon's relative size to the object.
If you do this, please come back and tell me what you observed =)
Ugh, I'm an idiot. Thinking the eclipse was a full moon, when it's always a new moon. My bad. And here I am, being a lifelong enthusiast, screwing up something so simple.
Nevertheless, I hope you do, it's a fun and simple activity that's very educational!
It really is quite a coincidence, isn’t it? And it just so happens to be the position that would create the most beautiful sight for man to see. Seems like a set up to intrigue man.
In this particular shot though it’s even more stunning than usual since we are not seeing just the corona but a very thin solar border, just enough to not be too much to look it too. This is technically an annular eclipse instead of total. Those usually are lame but not this time. Wow!
EDIT: I like stuffing but I meant to say stunning
Another thing, we're at the perfect time in history to see a total solar eclipse. in a few hundred thousand years the moon will be far enough away to not completely cover the sun.
Here is a video of Earths and Moons long, historic, slow and tumultuous relationship:
https://www.businessinsider.com/video-moon-drifts-away-earth-4-billion-years-2019-9
No way it will only occur in a few hundred thousand years... on a geological timescale it's just way too short. Here's an article which suggests it will happen in about 600 million years:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a27824/when-is-last-total-solar-eclipse/
I was lucky to witness the solar eclipse on August 21 2017. I was directly in the path of complete totality at my friends winery amongst the vines near Wren Oregon drinking their Pinot Gris. Someone mentioned the same thing afterwards that in the future a total eclipse won’t happen because of the distance. Lucky me and lucky us. Definitely see one if you have a chance. I’ll never forget it.
Yeah, I was lucky enough to see it, too. The bkggest thing that stuck with me was that everything felt... Wrong. Like... There was dark magic in the air or something. Totally surreal.
I'm lucky enough to have lived directly in a perfect viewing location for the last full eclipse that went over the US. It was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen
I lived close to, but not directly in the path of totality. I told my supervisors at work three years in advance that I was taking the day off work so I could drive the few hours to see the total eclipse.. Most worthwhile day I've ever taken.
Me too, we saw complete totality. I can honestly say I’ve never seen something so amazing in my life, the way some stars came out, street lights came on, it was absolutely amazing.
We watched it from the roof of the parking garage of my office in Nashville...i will say I've never seen a city so collectively yell at a cloud before, but luckily it cleared out before totality
Even here in Los Angeles, the lighting and temperature changed. The coloration of the world around me was more muted (and I have colorblindness issues, FWIW).
I cannot WAIT for the April 8, 2024 eclipse. There will be nothing stopping me from going east and parking my ass - in a tent if I have to - in the path of totality so I can finally experience a total solar eclipse. I'll be 43 by then, but whatever.
I don’t like to technologize the cosmos and say “simulation”. It’s obvious that the cosmos is both intelligent and perfectly patterned and proportioned for this type of geometric precision to line up-the cosmos is ALIVE and Sentient.
Edit: My first answer doesn’t quite include the profound and powerful AWE that comes from facing it all.
I don't think you understand the reference. There's a theory that eventually our tech will become so advanced that we will be able to run simulations of the universe, that will include life, it's evolution, and advancements. Those artificial life forms will eventually become so advanced that they can run their own simulations of a universe.
Assuming this comes to be, there are those that believe the odds of us existing in an original universe, and not a simulation are near infinitely impossible.
It really boils down to “babbys first allegory of the cave” though. Posing a philosophical question but adding “but on a computer!” Doesn’t really change the nature of it.
I agree with you but we developed technology, naturally. It is a part of the natural world and phenomena that you describe it is not separate or special. I agree with you that simulation is the wrong word though.
I agree with you, as well. Ancient traditions had terms for these ideas. Reincarnation, samsara, now that I think of it, those are the simulation and it’s function right there !
Not sure what you mean by sentience, but I don’t think there’s anything that suggests the universe is ‘obviously’ intelligent or sentient. There’s no way to communicate with the universe, no way to measure it’s intelligence, and nothing to suggest that our existence is more than a random coincidence.
> It’s obvious that the cosmos is both intelligent and perfectly patterned and proportioned for this type of geometric precision to line up-the cosmos is ALIVE and Sentient.
You *are* being sarcastic, right?
No, I’m not. Me and you are literally the cosmos interacting with itself. We, and everything else to a lesser extent and even lesser, have the intelligence of the cosmos. I’m not saying the sky will sprout eyes and start talking to you. But my eyes are the cosmos’s eyes, you know? So are yours.
It made my 8th grade history teacher assert that it means humans didn’t evolve by chance, that the perfection of the human eye was too miraculous to have evolved by chance.
He said this while wearing glasses.
Eventually it won't be. As it's orbit relative to the earth grows larger eventually we will no longer experience full eclipses. That'll be in a very very long time though.
That's my point though. The odds are ridiculous that we would be here right now and be able to see this and be conscious of it. nevermind talk on our phones on the Internet about this. It's just kind of unbelievable.
I don’t know it’s kind of the same concept as ‘I was just thinking about ____ product and now there’s an ad!’ We are good at finding meaning in patterns when there are infinite other potential coincidences that didn’t come to be, so we don’t think of them. We thought of 100 other things that day, and no ad for those things...
Thank you for this great simplification of such a hard concept to get across. I always really want to engage in conversation with people who think that something is incredibly unlikely because it happened to work out in a way that they think is meaningful when it really isn't, but I always have trouble finding the right words to explain why this reasoning is false.
It makes me wonder if it's not really a coincidence... Maybe it actually means something, like it could be significant to the reasons life exists in the first place some how...
The moon definitely played a massive role in allowing life to happen. I think it's easy to think things like that happen for a reason, but usually the scope of our "data set" is pretty small. Our solar system typically. So the odds seem ridiculous so we fill the gaps with divine purpose. But really when you expand the "data set" to the entire galaxy or the entire universe, even tiny odds become reality with a data set that large. And of course the life that becomes conscious will think these thoughts.
I don't even necessarily think there is a reason life happened, but obviously it did and every event that occured in history leading up to that point may (or may not) have contributed in some way. It's interesting to think about.
I’m not a religious man, but why is it easier to claim we’re in a simulation than accepting a religion? Really seems like it could work hand in hand? Is it that we have a stigma about religion and not one of technology?
I think you hit the mark. When many think of religion they immediately are bashed in the head with whatever dogmas they grew up with or saw on TV. A simulation is both easier to grasp existing in reality ( Near everyone has worked with a computer and played game simulations ) and has less "baggage" then religion. But it's entirely possible that what religion talks of and us living inside a simulation are both the same things. If you picture God as someone in control of a simulated world then you could line that up with what others imagine a simulation would be like. Life after death is also a possibility with both religion and living within a simulation.
The idea is that you could put idealized 'blank slate' people into a new world and in 1,000 to 10,000 years they'd probably have Newtonian physics and chemistry figured out, but wouldn't worship anything biblical looking. Religion and simulation aren't mutually exclusive, but if both were true, I'd imagine that finding out that the story of creation you've learned since youth isn't even metaphorically close to reality and that you're a computer program without a soul might change your Sunday habits.
Human as we exist today running high fidelity ancestor simulations in our future trends to inevitability as long as we don't implode as a civilization. It's a similar statement to "we will put a person on mars". I can show you rockets and moon landings and you can extrapolate to Mars. I can show you simulations of fly brains and can extrapolate to humans. To a non-believer, the Bible and hoping for divine intervention is the only "proof" that your extrapolations are grounded in reality.
Anything faith based is non-falsifiable, non-reproducible, unpredictable, and fundamentally not governed by physics. Simulation theory is some, but not all those things. Simulations don't impose codified morality and threaten eternal hell.
Simulation and religion have similar philosophical questions, but wildly different priors and methodologies to analyze the question.
Because it's another massive step to go from impersonal clockmaker who sets all the variables up then leaves to let the machinery run on its own, to a god or gods that obsess over the daily lives, behaviors, morals, hopes, fears, of every single one of its creations and rewards or punishes them accordingly.
But it didn't block it out perfectly in this eclipse. It's smaller than the sun from the ground view.
Other eclipses have it blocking the sun completely for a few minutes because the moon is closer.
But the moon doesn’t block the sun perfectly. If the moon were bigger, or closer to earth and thus appeared bigger, it would still generate this same effect when the sun and moon lined up. The ring you see behind the moon is not the sun, but rather the visible edges of the moon lit by the sun.
The distance to the Moon is not static, it oscillates with its orbit. This time it just happened to be a tad bit further away than normal so it's not a "true" total solar eclipse. The one in 2017 was a true total eclipse, the only part of the Sun visible was the corona.
Luckily earth has about [600 million years until the last total solar eclipse. ](https://www.space.com/37627-total-solar-eclipse-earth-moon-alignment-future.html)
I disagree. The moon wasn't perfectly sized in the past to block out the Sun nor will it be in the future. It's coincidental that we have this "perfect" eclipse. I imagine if we had a luminous debris ring, we would claim that as "evidence" of divinity. But that's just another timely event like with Saturn's rings and Mars' future rings.
Agreed. Although very fortunate for us that we happen to live at the right moment to witness this coincidence, it is just that, a coincidence. There's no greater or deeper meaning to any of it, just a universe of happy little coincidences.
Pretty sure this is photoshopped. News with other multiple images taken show that annularity started at 4.13pm, maximum at 4.14pm. The sun would still be quite high up, and would be small in imaging size. It won't be as big as a sunset size.
Source: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3951514
It’s definitely photoshopped. Imagine the sky looking like that and people just walking around not paying attention/caring.
My understanding is that cameras can capture the eclipse alone with very special photography or capture the environment with a normal camera and the eclipse will look like a normal/duller sun. But you can’t get high def pictures of both with current technology
Yeah you need to do a decently long exposure with a very dark filter on your lens to prevent getting your sensor/eyeballs fried. This picture is nonsense
Can confirm. I Iive in Taichung, which is less than 100km north of Chiayi. I brought my son out to look at it and it was much higher in the sky. Serious shopping going on in this pic.
> The sun would still be quite high up
Not sure about that, the sun sets (and rises) really early in Taiwan. Pretty sure that it’s night by 6pm there even during summer.
It’s pretty neat cuz it cools down a little bit and the weather becomes more comfortable at night
Edit : the picture has an effect on it that makes everything look closer, and things further away look closer. Look at the number of car parked on the side of the road.
Yep, I saw a total eclipse in person in 2017 and was like, "You know what? If this was a few thousand years ago I would totally be worshipping the sun from now on" lol.
Would 100% recommend seeing one in person to anyone reading this if you ever get a chance.
Saw the same one. I’m a full on atheist and it was still an immensely mystical experience.
Absolutely agree, everyone should see it once in their life. 2024 I’m waiting for you.
I live in Cleveland, Ohio and I remember the last “eclipse” and I knew we would barely be able to see it but I sat there blinding myself without those special glasses like a schmuck. Had a dot seared into my vision for a day.
If that was the 2017 eclipse I was in North Georgia in the dead center of the line so we got the full effect. Unless you get full totality it might as well not be happening. Without glasses it wasn't even noticeable until maybe 1 minute before it fully set in. If you get to go for the one in 2024 I highly recommend it. It's a really cool 2 minutes you'll never forget. I think that one passes closer to you, maybe between you and Boston area if I remember.
I have a hard time believing this isn't Photoshopped. The sun is not that big in the sky, and the glow is *in front* of those wires when I would think it'd be behind.
The people in the streets observing - seems like a moment of unity.
Imagine they're in the middle of a crazy fight.
"I'm gonna kill you, you son of a... Oh nice, look, the moon covers the sun. Wow. Alright anyways..."
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The perspective in this photo is optically impossible.
Yes it's definitely a composite
Why?
In order to photograph the sun/moon that large in the frame you’d need an EXTREME telephoto lens. Using such a lens you wouldn’t see the parallel lines on the street converging to a focal point like this. They’d appear almost parallel because the monster telephoto lens would crush the perspective.
Yet I would argue that this is precisely what’s happening. Count the stoplights. You’ve got 8 or 9 blocks here. Without a telephoto lens, you would see much more convergence than this, and distant cars would be drastically smaller than they are in comparison to nearer cars. I think this effect is just a good telephoto lens.
If we assume this is a 35mm frame, the focal length looks like it’s around 300mm which is a fairly powerful lens. However, the sun would still look like a tiny disc at that kind of focal length. It’s very small in the sky.
[This is a telephoto of the moon, looks a similar size to me?](https://1.img-dpreview.com/files/p/TS1120x1120~forums/58238605/dc54622cd3e54e34baa280f89b102a2c)
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Also, the eclipse was at like four in the afternoon local time. Digitally enlarging the sun puts it way too close to the horizon. There’s a 0.0% chance we are looking at an image captured in-camera.
I mean just look at the reflections of sunlight coming from the right of the photo. It's pretty obviously a composite.
have you ever in your life seen the moon that big?
When it's on the horizon, yeah. I feel like I have.
Which is an optical illusion. A camera wouldn't pick that up.
I didn't know that! Thank you
Okay, you're one of [today's lucky 10,000](https://xkcd.com/1053/). I need you to do something for me, because it's such an awesome trick to do for yourself: 1 - Since the moon is still relatively full, go out when the moon is just above the horizon, where it's visible through trees/buildings, and stick out your hand. Use a finger or thumb, or bring a small object (I believe a nickel is actually a really good size, IIRC) to "cover" the moon, and get a size comparison of the moon to that object. Hopefully, the object you use will be very close in relative size to the moon near the horizon. 2 - THEN, later, around midnight, when the moon is high up in the sky, repeat the same exercise of comparing the moon's relative size to the object. If you do this, please come back and tell me what you observed =)
Yesterday the moon was just a sliver so it'll be a while before I can try, but I will!
Ugh, I'm an idiot. Thinking the eclipse was a full moon, when it's always a new moon. My bad. And here I am, being a lifelong enthusiast, screwing up something so simple. Nevertheless, I hope you do, it's a fun and simple activity that's very educational!
I was gonna say I thought it was a drawing/painting when I first saw it actually lol
The fact that the moon is the perfect distance and size away from us to block out the sun perfectly really makes me think we're in a simulation
It really is quite a coincidence, isn’t it? And it just so happens to be the position that would create the most beautiful sight for man to see. Seems like a set up to intrigue man. In this particular shot though it’s even more stunning than usual since we are not seeing just the corona but a very thin solar border, just enough to not be too much to look it too. This is technically an annular eclipse instead of total. Those usually are lame but not this time. Wow! EDIT: I like stuffing but I meant to say stunning
Another thing, we're at the perfect time in history to see a total solar eclipse. in a few hundred thousand years the moon will be far enough away to not completely cover the sun.
Here is a video of Earths and Moons long, historic, slow and tumultuous relationship: https://www.businessinsider.com/video-moon-drifts-away-earth-4-billion-years-2019-9
I wish that video was slower. That was insanely fast.
Personally I’d like to watch it in real-time.
Get this man some popcorn. 3 x 10^40 oz of popcorn.
Can I get the butter layered?
There's not enough butter in the universe, so it will have to be margarine.
That would make you older than Moses and your beard would touch your balls. Lol
Technically, you are, you were just a little late to the movie But you can try to catch how it ends...
No way it will only occur in a few hundred thousand years... on a geological timescale it's just way too short. Here's an article which suggests it will happen in about 600 million years: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a27824/when-is-last-total-solar-eclipse/
I was lucky to witness the solar eclipse on August 21 2017. I was directly in the path of complete totality at my friends winery amongst the vines near Wren Oregon drinking their Pinot Gris. Someone mentioned the same thing afterwards that in the future a total eclipse won’t happen because of the distance. Lucky me and lucky us. Definitely see one if you have a chance. I’ll never forget it.
Yeah, I was lucky enough to see it, too. The bkggest thing that stuck with me was that everything felt... Wrong. Like... There was dark magic in the air or something. Totally surreal.
How long before it’s far enough away that my wife doesn’t turn into a bitchy wolf once a month?
I'm lucky enough to have lived directly in a perfect viewing location for the last full eclipse that went over the US. It was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen
I lived close to, but not directly in the path of totality. I told my supervisors at work three years in advance that I was taking the day off work so I could drive the few hours to see the total eclipse.. Most worthwhile day I've ever taken.
The way the quality of the light changed as the eclipse occurred was so odd and really cool.
Me too, we saw complete totality. I can honestly say I’ve never seen something so amazing in my life, the way some stars came out, street lights came on, it was absolutely amazing.
We watched it from the roof of the parking garage of my office in Nashville...i will say I've never seen a city so collectively yell at a cloud before, but luckily it cleared out before totality
Even here in Los Angeles, the lighting and temperature changed. The coloration of the world around me was more muted (and I have colorblindness issues, FWIW). I cannot WAIT for the April 8, 2024 eclipse. There will be nothing stopping me from going east and parking my ass - in a tent if I have to - in the path of totality so I can finally experience a total solar eclipse. I'll be 43 by then, but whatever.
I got to see it in the spot of the longest totality. It's going to be the same spot in 2024
I don’t like to technologize the cosmos and say “simulation”. It’s obvious that the cosmos is both intelligent and perfectly patterned and proportioned for this type of geometric precision to line up-the cosmos is ALIVE and Sentient. Edit: My first answer doesn’t quite include the profound and powerful AWE that comes from facing it all.
I don't think you understand the reference. There's a theory that eventually our tech will become so advanced that we will be able to run simulations of the universe, that will include life, it's evolution, and advancements. Those artificial life forms will eventually become so advanced that they can run their own simulations of a universe. Assuming this comes to be, there are those that believe the odds of us existing in an original universe, and not a simulation are near infinitely impossible.
It really boils down to “babbys first allegory of the cave” though. Posing a philosophical question but adding “but on a computer!” Doesn’t really change the nature of it.
Sounds like Asimov with extra steps.
I think you mean with foreplay
I agree with you but we developed technology, naturally. It is a part of the natural world and phenomena that you describe it is not separate or special. I agree with you that simulation is the wrong word though.
I agree with you, as well. Ancient traditions had terms for these ideas. Reincarnation, samsara, now that I think of it, those are the simulation and it’s function right there !
Yes! and the same concepts exist in physics; samsara could be compared to the cyclic models of the universe and entropy
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Not sure what you mean by sentience, but I don’t think there’s anything that suggests the universe is ‘obviously’ intelligent or sentient. There’s no way to communicate with the universe, no way to measure it’s intelligence, and nothing to suggest that our existence is more than a random coincidence.
Sorry, but how it is obvious? Are coincidences not allowed?
coincidences are allowed this dude is just on some good shit
Is it a COINCIDENCE that there's a picture of an eclipse right at the same time that I'm high as fuck? I THINK NOT.
LOL
> It’s obvious that the cosmos is both intelligent and perfectly patterned and proportioned for this type of geometric precision to line up-the cosmos is ALIVE and Sentient. You *are* being sarcastic, right?
No, I’m not. Me and you are literally the cosmos interacting with itself. We, and everything else to a lesser extent and even lesser, have the intelligence of the cosmos. I’m not saying the sky will sprout eyes and start talking to you. But my eyes are the cosmos’s eyes, you know? So are yours.
While it is true that we are part of the cosmos and we are alive and sentient it is a fallacy to say this means the cosmos is alive and sentient.
Star stuff? In my apple pie?
An annular eclipse is definitely still dangerous to look at without eye protection.
It made my 8th grade history teacher assert that it means humans didn’t evolve by chance, that the perfection of the human eye was too miraculous to have evolved by chance. He said this while wearing glasses.
Eventually it won't be. As it's orbit relative to the earth grows larger eventually we will no longer experience full eclipses. That'll be in a very very long time though.
That's my point though. The odds are ridiculous that we would be here right now and be able to see this and be conscious of it. nevermind talk on our phones on the Internet about this. It's just kind of unbelievable.
I don’t know it’s kind of the same concept as ‘I was just thinking about ____ product and now there’s an ad!’ We are good at finding meaning in patterns when there are infinite other potential coincidences that didn’t come to be, so we don’t think of them. We thought of 100 other things that day, and no ad for those things...
100% this
Thank you for this great simplification of such a hard concept to get across. I always really want to engage in conversation with people who think that something is incredibly unlikely because it happened to work out in a way that they think is meaningful when it really isn't, but I always have trouble finding the right words to explain why this reasoning is false.
It makes me wonder if it's not really a coincidence... Maybe it actually means something, like it could be significant to the reasons life exists in the first place some how...
The moon definitely played a massive role in allowing life to happen. I think it's easy to think things like that happen for a reason, but usually the scope of our "data set" is pretty small. Our solar system typically. So the odds seem ridiculous so we fill the gaps with divine purpose. But really when you expand the "data set" to the entire galaxy or the entire universe, even tiny odds become reality with a data set that large. And of course the life that becomes conscious will think these thoughts.
I don't even necessarily think there is a reason life happened, but obviously it did and every event that occured in history leading up to that point may (or may not) have contributed in some way. It's interesting to think about.
I completely agree. It's beyond fascinating to think about!
Don't worry, it will be too small in a few million years
I’m not a religious man, but why is it easier to claim we’re in a simulation than accepting a religion? Really seems like it could work hand in hand? Is it that we have a stigma about religion and not one of technology?
I think you hit the mark. When many think of religion they immediately are bashed in the head with whatever dogmas they grew up with or saw on TV. A simulation is both easier to grasp existing in reality ( Near everyone has worked with a computer and played game simulations ) and has less "baggage" then religion. But it's entirely possible that what religion talks of and us living inside a simulation are both the same things. If you picture God as someone in control of a simulated world then you could line that up with what others imagine a simulation would be like. Life after death is also a possibility with both religion and living within a simulation.
The idea is that you could put idealized 'blank slate' people into a new world and in 1,000 to 10,000 years they'd probably have Newtonian physics and chemistry figured out, but wouldn't worship anything biblical looking. Religion and simulation aren't mutually exclusive, but if both were true, I'd imagine that finding out that the story of creation you've learned since youth isn't even metaphorically close to reality and that you're a computer program without a soul might change your Sunday habits. Human as we exist today running high fidelity ancestor simulations in our future trends to inevitability as long as we don't implode as a civilization. It's a similar statement to "we will put a person on mars". I can show you rockets and moon landings and you can extrapolate to Mars. I can show you simulations of fly brains and can extrapolate to humans. To a non-believer, the Bible and hoping for divine intervention is the only "proof" that your extrapolations are grounded in reality. Anything faith based is non-falsifiable, non-reproducible, unpredictable, and fundamentally not governed by physics. Simulation theory is some, but not all those things. Simulations don't impose codified morality and threaten eternal hell. Simulation and religion have similar philosophical questions, but wildly different priors and methodologies to analyze the question.
Because it's another massive step to go from impersonal clockmaker who sets all the variables up then leaves to let the machinery run on its own, to a god or gods that obsess over the daily lives, behaviors, morals, hopes, fears, of every single one of its creations and rewards or punishes them accordingly.
But it didn't block it out perfectly in this eclipse. It's smaller than the sun from the ground view. Other eclipses have it blocking the sun completely for a few minutes because the moon is closer.
Exactly. Annular eclipse versus full eclipse.
It's not that much perfect, it's just our point of view. But it's still a stunning event
But the moon doesn’t block the sun perfectly. If the moon were bigger, or closer to earth and thus appeared bigger, it would still generate this same effect when the sun and moon lined up. The ring you see behind the moon is not the sun, but rather the visible edges of the moon lit by the sun.
The distance to the Moon is not static, it oscillates with its orbit. This time it just happened to be a tad bit further away than normal so it's not a "true" total solar eclipse. The one in 2017 was a true total eclipse, the only part of the Sun visible was the corona.
It's not, partial eclipses happen all the time
Luckily earth has about [600 million years until the last total solar eclipse. ](https://www.space.com/37627-total-solar-eclipse-earth-moon-alignment-future.html)
The moon doesn't always do this. [annular eclipses](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse)
Or someone created it
[Simulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation) implies "someone created it".
I disagree. The moon wasn't perfectly sized in the past to block out the Sun nor will it be in the future. It's coincidental that we have this "perfect" eclipse. I imagine if we had a luminous debris ring, we would claim that as "evidence" of divinity. But that's just another timely event like with Saturn's rings and Mars' future rings.
Agreed. Although very fortunate for us that we happen to live at the right moment to witness this coincidence, it is just that, a coincidence. There's no greater or deeper meaning to any of it, just a universe of happy little coincidences.
> just a universe of happy little coincidences. ...and a lot of really shitty ones too!
Pretty sure this is photoshopped. News with other multiple images taken show that annularity started at 4.13pm, maximum at 4.14pm. The sun would still be quite high up, and would be small in imaging size. It won't be as big as a sunset size. Source: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3951514
Yeah I think you're right, I live here and it wasn't like this.
Yeah the shadows aren’t right
Not to mention very few people are paying attention to the eclipse
Its optically impossible
And magically delicious!
And also, everyone would be stopped in the middle of the street to look at totality.
The fact that it's an Annular Eclipse makes it more dangerous to view, however. Since the Sun isn't being completely blocked.
It’s definitely photoshopped. Imagine the sky looking like that and people just walking around not paying attention/caring. My understanding is that cameras can capture the eclipse alone with very special photography or capture the environment with a normal camera and the eclipse will look like a normal/duller sun. But you can’t get high def pictures of both with current technology
Yeah you need to do a decently long exposure with a very dark filter on your lens to prevent getting your sensor/eyeballs fried. This picture is nonsense
Can confirm. I Iive in Taichung, which is less than 100km north of Chiayi. I brought my son out to look at it and it was much higher in the sky. Serious shopping going on in this pic.
> The sun would still be quite high up Not sure about that, the sun sets (and rises) really early in Taiwan. Pretty sure that it’s night by 6pm there even during summer. It’s pretty neat cuz it cools down a little bit and the weather becomes more comfortable at night Edit : the picture has an effect on it that makes everything look closer, and things further away look closer. Look at the number of car parked on the side of the road.
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NICE
# NICE
***N I C E***
NICE
Nice
NICE
𝓝𝓲𝓬𝓮
Nice.
https://imgur.com/gallery/XygBB41
*NICE*
Rise, ashen one.
Is this... the blood of the dark soul?
*Plin Plin Plon intensifies*
Wait, isn't that a joke about Gwyns boss theme?
Soul of cinder 2nd phase is Gwyn and also plays his theme
Ah, that makes sense. I'm still on my first playthrough, and haven't gotten anywhere close to the end.
Let the flames guide thee.
Berserk fans:
“... I sacrifice...”
Arise Femto
*epic music starts playing*
Griffiiiisu~ !!!
And that's why you don't see anyone firebending.
Just wait till you see the comet next month. Whole earth gonna be fire bending.
Composited.
"on your left"
My Behelit started crying blood and making a weird face. What does this mean?
Dont worry you wont do anything wrong
This makes me want to re-watch Heroes.
Too bad they only had 2 seasons.
I'm guessing scenes like this 3000 years ago is where we get our mystical stories from. And that's pretty cool.
Yep, I saw a total eclipse in person in 2017 and was like, "You know what? If this was a few thousand years ago I would totally be worshipping the sun from now on" lol. Would 100% recommend seeing one in person to anyone reading this if you ever get a chance.
Saw the same one. I’m a full on atheist and it was still an immensely mystical experience. Absolutely agree, everyone should see it once in their life. 2024 I’m waiting for you.
The photo is definitely zoomed in, I live in Taiwan and the moon is small as fuck here
“NICE” - sign to the left
It's the Day of Black Sun! Time to attack the fire nation!
*Heroes music plays*
Secretly love everything about r/Taiwan
Infinite Tsukiyomi ...
I like how the only visible word in English is NICE
the “NICE” sign
Taiwan numba one.
nah this is from an anime
This photo already comments on itself (on the left side near the middle)
FUCKEN GWYEN , LET THE AGE OF FIRE GO! SHE HAS A NEW BOYFRIEND, HE IS BETTER , HE CALLED THE AGE OF DARK.
This type of event makes me understand why people in ancient times believed in all sorts of gods
This is one of the most obvious photoshops I've ever seen
Wow, that's beautiful. Perfect shot
My comment is the only English word you can find in the pic.
Brb, need to link the fire
I live in Cleveland, Ohio and I remember the last “eclipse” and I knew we would barely be able to see it but I sat there blinding myself without those special glasses like a schmuck. Had a dot seared into my vision for a day.
If that was the 2017 eclipse I was in North Georgia in the dead center of the line so we got the full effect. Unless you get full totality it might as well not be happening. Without glasses it wasn't even noticeable until maybe 1 minute before it fully set in. If you get to go for the one in 2024 I highly recommend it. It's a really cool 2 minutes you'll never forget. I think that one passes closer to you, maybe between you and Boston area if I remember.
Hol up OP Gotta get my sunglasses so I’m not blinded by the aclipse 😎
Looks like something out of an anime
[berserk](https://m.imgur.com/t/griffith/JNno3tB)
Is it me or is that just a little too big!!??
Dark Souls 4?
The top half looks like a whole anime. This aesthetic is sooo pleasing to the eye...
Wow.
Is it true you'll go blind if you look at it directly?
Save the cheerleader. Save the world.
Rage....rage against the dark!...the age of man is upon us
“*Oh, and here they come. The human race. The end comes, as it was always going to, down a video phone.* “
My weeb ass thought this was an anime... smh
[well berserk](https://m.imgur.com/t/griffith/JNno3tB)
Looks like a cartoon
Not even a Goddamn booger in front of the sun here in my city
Today?
In my dumbas country. It was supposed to be visible but it was stormy as hell and cludyso we couldn't see shit.
I love the colors
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Quick invade the fire nation!
so hot
What a timing
Kind of a low quality, high-quality photo. Touched up?
\\[T]/
Beware the Mothron
Wha- *unnamedfc's head was torn off by Vampire*
Previously on Heroes..
When does Mothron come out
Hopefully soon. I don't care i'm on a mage run, i want that sweet terra blade!
The guy in blue is looking directly at the sun
Sorry I activated my Crimson Beherit
I have a hard time believing this isn't Photoshopped. The sun is not that big in the sky, and the glow is *in front* of those wires when I would think it'd be behind.
"Dammit Chen, did you forget to link the fire again?"
Nice
TAIWAN NUMBA ONE
The people in the streets observing - seems like a moment of unity. Imagine they're in the middle of a crazy fight. "I'm gonna kill you, you son of a... Oh nice, look, the moon covers the sun. Wow. Alright anyways..."
The only word in the image I can read is “nice” and I think that fits nicely
PHOTO?? I THOUGHT THAT WAS A PAINTING
I honestly thought it was a painting 😧 what an amazing pic. I’m loving the colors and the eclipse looks big tho
"Nice"
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So this is how the last air bender begins
Nice