The end is nigh! As we draw closer to 09:30 I am frantically
rushing to finish this post. It isn’t every day that a celestial event of
such magnitude plunges our city, neigh planet, into total or partial darkness…
The eclipse this morning, will be the last one for another
18 months. Here is a nice little BBC animation explaining in more detail.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z29gcdm.
This I do know, light travels at roughly: 3x10^8 m/s. This would mean that
as the moon swallows the last of the sun we would have roughly 8 mins left
before the final warming, live giving, photon smashes through the atmosphere
and onto our pasty winter skin. So if the moon gets stuck we will surely
face the Apoc-Eclipse. Enjoy responsibly don't burn your eye balls.
Bonus points for working out the distance from the sun to
the earth.
Bacon
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