Comments on: A fake and a real view of the solar eclipse… FROM SPACE!

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:43:44 +0000

This looks like Jupiter with a big scar on the left hit by a big asteroid called Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.

By: JMW

JMW — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 04:22:20 +0000

Seeing the video of the shadow of the moon on the Earth’s cloud tops made me remember an old Isaac Asimov mystery.

I can’t remember the title, but it wasn’t a science fiction story. It was one of his Black Widower short stories, in which a group of seven men have dinner at a restaurant once a month, and invite a guest. In the stories, the guest always has some sort of mystery to be unravelled, and in this one, the guest was a science fiction author who was trying to figure out a gimmick about photos of an eclipse, which would provide the motive for a murder.

Asimove proposed having a picture of the moon’s shadow on the Earth, in a story written 30 years ago. And here we are!

By: Tribeca Mike

Tribeca Mike — Sat, 26 May 2012 05:05:44 +0000

So, scientisty guy, you’re finally admitting that space is fake? This is a major victory for the forces of anti-reality, otherwise known as Mississippi.

By: Tribeca Mike

Tribeca Mike — Sat, 26 May 2012 05:05:30 +0000

So, scientisty guy, you’re finally admitting that space is fake? This is a major victory for the forces of anti-reality, otherwise known as Mississippi.

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Interesting Links, May 23, 2012 | An Eclectic Mind — Thu, 24 May 2012 06:30:26 +0000

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By: Richard Woods

Richard Woods — Thu, 24 May 2012 04:16:27 +0000

@25 Peachy

“The ‘diamond’ in the image above is much too far to the left.”

Yes, the artist failed to properly portray the irradiation illusion in which the bright “diamond” is seen to intrude upon the black shape of the eclipsing Moon.

By: Peachy

Peachy — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:11:21 +0000

@ (19.) Neil Haggath: I’ve seen the diamond ring of an eclipse (in photos anyway – never had the oportunity to see one “in person”). In all the photos I’ve seen of a “real” diamond ring, it’s never looked like that. The “diamond” in the image above is much too far to the left.

By: CR

CR — Tue, 22 May 2012 22:50:24 +0000

Heh, just realized I meant @10 in my last post, not @9. And yes, the “too good to be true” notion sends up flags for me, too.

By: Levi

Levi — Tue, 22 May 2012 22:48:20 +0000

This blog post is fake. You can tell by the pixels.

By: Pete Jackson

Pete Jackson — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:56:51 +0000

@16Slim: Since the Moon only covered about 90% of the Sun’s diameter, you would have to go towards the Moon about 10% of the distance to the Moon before the eclipse became total. That is, about 25,000 miles or 38,000 km. That is about the height of the ‘geostationary’ satellites that orbit the Earth in 24 hours. But they are mostly orbiting over the equator and not over the mid-northern latitudes of this eclipse. So you would need one of those special ones that serve the polar regions and that would have to be in the right place at the right time to see the eclipse as total.