Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Dan Penoff via Mercedes]

Nahh, it’s the flouridated water.

Dang it, the string in my leg just gave out.

-D



> On Aug 22, 2017, at 4:54 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes 
>  wrote:
> 
> Communists have infiltrated NASA stealing our precious bodily fluids 
> 
> --R
> Sent from iPhone
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes]

Communists have infiltrated NASA stealing our precious bodily fluids 

--R
Sent from iPhone

> On Aug 22, 2017, at 4:50 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes 
>  wrote:
> 
> Looks like my speeds were in KPH, not MPH.  Servers me right for listening
> to a NASA video about the eclipse.
> 
> -
> Max
> Charleston SC
> 
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 
>> The sun revolves around the center of our galaxy. We are kinda out in the
>> suburbs on one arm of it so we're getting slung along pretty fast.
>> 
>> --R
>> Sent from iPhone
>> 
>>> On Aug 22, 2017, at 3:41 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes <
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The sun probably revolves?
>>> Thanks for (re)introduction to REVOLVE and ROTATE.
>>> tin.man
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Meade Dillon via Mercedes]

Looks like my speeds were in KPH, not MPH.  Servers me right for listening
to a NASA video about the eclipse.

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Charleston SC

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> The sun revolves around the center of our galaxy. We are kinda out in the
> suburbs on one arm of it so we're getting slung along pretty fast.
>
> --R
> Sent from iPhone
>
> > On Aug 22, 2017, at 3:41 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes <
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> >
> > The sun probably revolves?
> > Thanks for (re)introduction to REVOLVE and ROTATE.
> > tin.man
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes]

The sun revolves around the center of our galaxy. We are kinda out in the 
suburbs on one arm of it so we're getting slung along pretty fast. 

--R
Sent from iPhone

> On Aug 22, 2017, at 3:41 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes 
>  wrote:
> 
> The sun probably revolves?
> Thanks for (re)introduction to REVOLVE and ROTATE.
> tin.man

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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Mountain Man via Mercedes]

--R wrote:
> The moon REVOLVES about the earth (and the earth REVOLVES about the sun),
> the moon and earth ROTATE about their axes (and the moon is rotation-locked
> to the earth so it always presents the same face to the earth).

The sun probably revolves?
Thanks for (re)introduction to REVOLVE and ROTATE.
tin.man

>
> And actually earth rotation speed is about 1000mph (24 hours, 24000mi
> circumference).
>
> --R (The Pedant)
>
>
>
> On 8/22/17 1:10 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
>>
>> The Earth rotates at about 1700 mph at the equator, the moon orbits at
>> around 3400 mph in the same direction, so slightly faster, so the shadow
>> passes from west to east.
>>
>> -
>> Max
>> Charleston SC
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes <
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>>
>>> Do the sun and moon rotate in different directions around the planet?
>>> The sun in this neighborhood rises in the east and sets in the west.
>>> The moon also rises in the east and sets in the west?
>>> Why did the eclipse totality go from west to east?
>>> ...yeah... duckduckgo
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Rich Thomas via Mercedes]

The moon REVOLVES about the earth (and the earth REVOLVES about the 
sun), the moon and earth ROTATE about their axes (and the moon is 
rotation-locked to the earth so it always presents the same face to the 
earth).


And actually earth rotation speed is about 1000mph (24 hours, 24000mi 
circumference).


--R (The Pedant)


On 8/22/17 1:10 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote:

The Earth rotates at about 1700 mph at the equator, the moon orbits at
around 3400 mph in the same direction, so slightly faster, so the shadow
passes from west to east.

-
Max
Charleston SC

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Do the sun and moon rotate in different directions around the planet?
The sun in this neighborhood rises in the east and sets in the west.
The moon also rises in the east and sets in the west?
Why did the eclipse totality go from west to east?
...yeah... duckduckgo
tin.man

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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Meade Dillon via Mercedes]

The Earth rotates at about 1700 mph at the equator, the moon orbits at
around 3400 mph in the same direction, so slightly faster, so the shadow
passes from west to east.

-
Max
Charleston SC

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> Do the sun and moon rotate in different directions around the planet?
> The sun in this neighborhood rises in the east and sets in the west.
> The moon also rises in the east and sets in the west?
> Why did the eclipse totality go from west to east?
> ...yeah... duckduckgo
> tin.man
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Mountain Man via Mercedes]

Do the sun and moon rotate in different directions around the planet?
The sun in this neighborhood rises in the east and sets in the west.
The moon also rises in the east and sets in the west?
Why did the eclipse totality go from west to east?
...yeah... duckduckgo
tin.man

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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[OK Don via Mercedes]

Really? This was my third significant eclipse that we've viewed with our
eclipse glasses. I don't know how I've been able to lay hands on them as
needed, but I did. The experience is pretty much the same, depending on how
much of the eclipse you get.
It looks like we will get even more than the 80% this time in 2024, and
should be in the 100% path is 2045 - don't know that we'll be alive then,
but . . .

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <
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> I will say the lightning about 5 minute and up to total was very strange,
> very different that anything else I have experienced.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 21, 2017, at 2:15 PM, OK Don via Mercedes 
> wrote:
> >
> > Nice view of the partial eclipse from here. I measured the LUX during
> what
> > we got:
> > Normal full sun is 111,000 LUX - which is more than my meter can handle.
> > 1252 CDT 13,000 LUX
> > 1302 CDT   8,000 LUX
> > 1313 CDT 10,080 LUX
> > 1327 CDT 21,550 LUX
> > 1343 CDT 34,500 LUX
> > 1404 CDT - >40,000 LUX (no reading)
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Craig via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:11:08 -0500 OK Don via Mercedes
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think we are at 85% - will walk out to the runway for absolutely
> clear
> >>> viewing. In what I thought was going to be a clever experiment, is cut
> >>> up the lens of a viewing filter and stuck it onto the rear filter
> >>> element in my 500mm reflect lens, then pointed it at the sun, thinking
> >>> I could take cool digital photos. Nope - in about 5 seconds, a hole
> >>> melted in the center of said filter. The nodal point of that lens must
> >>> be at the filter plane.
> >>
> >> Use your telescope to project an image onto some card stock. I watched a
> >> partial eclipse at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City, CA, in 1968 that way
> >> with a setup someone had outside.
> >>
> >>
> >> Craig
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> > *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many
> of
> > our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain
> >
> > "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few
> who
> > learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence
> > for themselves."
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes]

I will say the lightning about 5 minute and up to total was very strange, very 
different that anything else I have experienced. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 21, 2017, at 2:15 PM, OK Don via Mercedes  
> wrote:
> 
> Nice view of the partial eclipse from here. I measured the LUX during what
> we got:
> Normal full sun is 111,000 LUX - which is more than my meter can handle.
> 1252 CDT 13,000 LUX
> 1302 CDT   8,000 LUX
> 1313 CDT 10,080 LUX
> 1327 CDT 21,550 LUX
> 1343 CDT 34,500 LUX
> 1404 CDT - >40,000 LUX (no reading)
> 
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Craig via Mercedes 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:11:08 -0500 OK Don via Mercedes
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> I think we are at 85% - will walk out to the runway for absolutely clear
>>> viewing. In what I thought was going to be a clever experiment, is cut
>>> up the lens of a viewing filter and stuck it onto the rear filter
>>> element in my 500mm reflect lens, then pointed it at the sun, thinking
>>> I could take cool digital photos. Nope - in about 5 seconds, a hole
>>> melted in the center of said filter. The nodal point of that lens must
>>> be at the filter plane.
>> 
>> Use your telescope to project an image onto some card stock. I watched a
>> partial eclipse at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City, CA, in 1968 that way
>> with a setup someone had outside.
>> 
>> 
>> Craig
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> 
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> our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain
> 
> "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who
> learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence
> for themselves."
> 
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[OK Don via Mercedes]

Nice view of the partial eclipse from here. I measured the LUX during what
we got:
Normal full sun is 111,000 LUX - which is more than my meter can handle.
1252 CDT 13,000 LUX
1302 CDT   8,000 LUX
1313 CDT 10,080 LUX
1327 CDT 21,550 LUX
1343 CDT 34,500 LUX
1404 CDT - >40,000 LUX (no reading)

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Craig via Mercedes 
wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:11:08 -0500 OK Don via Mercedes
>  wrote:
>
> > I think we are at 85% - will walk out to the runway for absolutely clear
> > viewing. In what I thought was going to be a clever experiment, is cut
> > up the lens of a viewing filter and stuck it onto the rear filter
> > element in my 500mm reflect lens, then pointed it at the sun, thinking
> > I could take cool digital photos. Nope - in about 5 seconds, a hole
> > melted in the center of said filter. The nodal point of that lens must
> > be at the filter plane.
>
> Use your telescope to project an image onto some card stock. I watched a
> partial eclipse at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City, CA, in 1968 that way
> with a setup someone had outside.
>
>
> Craig
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for themselves."

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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Craig via Mercedes]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:11:08 -0500 OK Don via Mercedes
 wrote:

> I think we are at 85% - will walk out to the runway for absolutely clear
> viewing. In what I thought was going to be a clever experiment, is cut
> up the lens of a viewing filter and stuck it onto the rear filter
> element in my 500mm reflect lens, then pointed it at the sun, thinking
> I could take cool digital photos. Nope - in about 5 seconds, a hole
> melted in the center of said filter. The nodal point of that lens must
> be at the filter plane.

Use your telescope to project an image onto some card stock. I watched a
partial eclipse at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City, CA, in 1968 that way
with a setup someone had outside.


Craig

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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes]

I really like the way you spelled attenuate.  :)

Even though a geologist, I have no special insights into the odds of
another possible New Madrid quake.  If there is one, prepare for a tax hike
to pay for the recovery effort$.





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mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:

> Andrew sez:
>
> >‎Worse comes to worst, the eclipse will >usher in The End of the World.
>
> Well, I don't know what gravitational effects the alignment of the sun and
> moon have ‎on the Earth's crust, but there will be another total solar
> eclipse visible in the US in April of 2024. It just so happens that the two
> eclipse(s) cross paths directly over the New Madrid fault.
>
> You have a degree in rocks. Will there be any tectonic activity because of
> that?
> An 8.something shaker along the New Madrid fault would make a mess. There
> are no nearby mountain ranges to attenuate the shaking. It would (will) be
> pretty catastrophic.
>
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Rick Knoble via Mercedes]

Andrew sez:

>‎Worse comes to worst, the eclipse will >usher in The End of the World.

Well, I don't know what gravitational effects the alignment of the sun and moon 
have ‎on the Earth's crust, but there will be another total solar eclipse 
visible in the US in April of 2024. It just so happens that the two eclipse(s) 
cross paths directly over the New Madrid fault. 

You have a degree in rocks. Will there be any tectonic activity because of that?
An 8.something shaker along the New Madrid fault would make a mess. There are 
no nearby mountain ranges to attenuate the shaking. It would (will) be pretty 
catastrophic.

Rick
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[Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes]

Worse comes to worst, the eclipse will usher in The End of the World.

If not, then party on, Garth.

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> I just need to work on my attitude, try to be more positive about this
> whole thing. Self-fulling prophecy and all that.
>
> Hey, the sun is out now, skies look pretty clear after a big storm rolled
> through earlier this a.m.  Maybe we won't be cloud-covered for the big
> event.
>
> -
> Max
> Charleston SC
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> > Max sez:
> >
> > >‎I cannot in good conscience send them >out to fend for themselves, my
> > prayer is >that if that "I told you so" moment >comes, it is merely
> > inconvenience.
> >
> > That makes you a good husband and father.
> > Attaboy.
> >
> > Good luck.
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[Meade Dillon via Mercedes]

I just need to work on my attitude, try to be more positive about this
whole thing. Self-fulling prophecy and all that.

Hey, the sun is out now, skies look pretty clear after a big storm rolled
through earlier this a.m.  Maybe we won't be cloud-covered for the big
event.

-
Max
Charleston SC

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> Max sez:
>
> >‎I cannot in good conscience send them >out to fend for themselves, my
> prayer is >that if that "I told you so" moment >comes, it is merely
> inconvenience.
>
> That makes you a good husband and father.
> Attaboy.
>
> Good luck.
>
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Rick Knoble via Mercedes]

Max sez:

>‎I cannot in good conscience send them >out to fend for themselves, my prayer 
>is >that if that "I told you so" moment >comes, it is merely inconvenience.

That makes you a good husband and father.  
Attaboy. 

Good luck.

Rick
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Max Dillon via Mercedes]

I considered the sailboat option, but I'm quite sure the local waters will also 
be covered with power boaters.  We've talked to a few people, and watched our 
neighborhood boat storage empty out last night.

It's already a mess, I awoke to emergency vehicle sirens from the major 
thoroughfare, highway 17, which is just about two miles away.

I cannot in good conscience send them out to fend for themselves, my prayer is 
that if that "I told you so" moment comes, it is merely inconvenience.
-- 
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
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'95 E300

On August 21, 2017 6:35:07 AM EDT, Mitch Haley via Mercedes 
 wrote:
>Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
>> I'm out voted by the ladies, so we'll be part of the seething mass.
>
>Forget standing elbow to elbow with idiots that you didn't marry or
>create.
>Take the sailboat.
>
>Or, alternately: "You girls have a nice time, I'll keep the dog company
>in case 
>he gets scared".
>
>I would not let anybody ruin the eclipse for me if my own backyard were
>right in 
>the path of totality.
>
>If staying home and having 2 seconds less totality ruins it for wife
>and 
>daughter units, they should join the throngs.
>If joining the throngs ruins it for you like it ruins it for me, don't
>join.
>
>Mitch.
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Mitch Haley via Mercedes]

Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:

I'm out voted by the ladies, so we'll be part of the seething mass.


Forget standing elbow to elbow with idiots that you didn't marry or create.
Take the sailboat.

Or, alternately: "You girls have a nice time, I'll keep the dog company in case 
he gets scared".


I would not let anybody ruin the eclipse for me if my own backyard were right in 
the path of totality.


If staying home and having 2 seconds less totality ruins it for wife and 
daughter units, they should join the throngs.

If joining the throngs ruins it for you like it ruins it for me, don't join.

Mitch.

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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

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We considered riding bikes over to the island, but I'm worried about the heavy 
traffic and the risk of getting run over while riding along the side of the 
road.  It's going to be a zoo.  I'd rather camp out at the neighborhood pool, 
with a cooler of beer and pizza from a local joint, so we can walk home if 
needed.  I'm out voted by the ladies, so we'll be part of the seething mass.
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'95 E300

On August 20, 2017 11:30:28 PM EDT, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes 
 wrote:
>You and 4 other people headed over there. If I didn't have to go to
>clumya I'd ride the bike over to Keewaw. 
>
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

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Eureka Pizza has a 2-for-1 offer during the eclipse.  So I'll go get some
cheap pizza and, if the sun is VERY lucky,  I'll shoot a glance in its
general direction.

-MMM-

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> You and 4 other people headed over there. If I didn't have to go to
> clumya I'd ride the bike over to Keewaw.
>
> --R
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> > On Aug 20, 2017, at 10:22 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> >
> > My abode is just about dead center, we'll get a little over a minute and
> a half of totality.  SWMBO wants to head to the nearest beach, a barrier
> island, normally about a fifteen minute drive, so I think we'll need to
> leave at about 11 so we can be totally jammed in a huge crowd, sweating for
> hours, no easy toilets, no beer, and then waste another few hours trying to
> fight the traffic getting back off the island.  Should be fun!
> > --
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> > Charleston SC
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> >
> >> On August 20, 2017 4:28:21 PM EDT, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <
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> >> Who is in the 70 mile wide eclipse path?  What are your plans and
> >> strategems?
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

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You and 4 other people headed over there. If I didn't have to go to clumya 
I'd ride the bike over to Keewaw. 

--R
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> On Aug 20, 2017, at 10:22 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes  
> wrote:
> 
> My abode is just about dead center, we'll get a little over a minute and a 
> half of totality.  SWMBO wants to head to the nearest beach, a barrier 
> island, normally about a fifteen minute drive, so I think we'll need to leave 
> at about 11 so we can be totally jammed in a huge crowd, sweating for hours, 
> no easy toilets, no beer, and then waste another few hours trying to fight 
> the traffic getting back off the island.  Should be fun!
> -- 
> Max Dillon
> Charleston SC
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> '95 E300
> 
>> On August 20, 2017 4:28:21 PM EDT, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes 
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>> Who is in the 70 mile wide eclipse path?  What are your plans and
>> strategems?
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Max Dillon via Mercedes]

My abode is just about dead center, we'll get a little over a minute and a half 
of totality.  SWMBO wants to head to the nearest beach, a barrier island, 
normally about a fifteen minute drive, so I think we'll need to leave at about 
11 so we can be totally jammed in a huge crowd, sweating for hours, no easy 
toilets, no beer, and then waste another few hours trying to fight the traffic 
getting back off the island.  Should be fun!
-- 
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Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300

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>Who is in the 70 mile wide eclipse path?  What are your plans and
>strategems?
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes]

Heck with that you got a plane, take off and fly up to the path of totality and 
watch it from the air.

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> On Aug 20, 2017, at 5:11 PM, OK Don via Mercedes  
> wrote:
> 
> I think we are at 85% - will walk out to the runway for absolutely clear
> viewing. In what I thought was going to be a clever experiment, is cut up
> the lens of a viewing filter and stuck it onto the rear filter element in
> my 500mm reflect lens, then pointed it at the sun, thinking I could take
> cool digital photos. Nope - in about 5 seconds, a hole melted in the center
> of said filter. The nodal point of that lens must be at the filter plane.
> 
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 
>> At home we are at like 90%. We just arrived in Osage Beach Mo which is the
>> closest hotel room I could book 2 weeks ago to the path. We are going to
>> head up to Jefferson City in the morning which is about 45 minutes away.
>> Will find somewhere to park and hope for no clouds.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Aug 20, 2017, at 3:28 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Who is in the 70 mile wide eclipse path?  What are your plans and
>>> strategems?
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I think we are at 85% - will walk out to the runway for absolutely clear
viewing. In what I thought was going to be a clever experiment, is cut up
the lens of a viewing filter and stuck it onto the rear filter element in
my 500mm reflect lens, then pointed it at the sun, thinking I could take
cool digital photos. Nope - in about 5 seconds, a hole melted in the center
of said filter. The nodal point of that lens must be at the filter plane.

On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:

> At home we are at like 90%. We just arrived in Osage Beach Mo which is the
> closest hotel room I could book 2 weeks ago to the path. We are going to
> head up to Jefferson City in the morning which is about 45 minutes away.
> Will find somewhere to park and hope for no clouds.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 20, 2017, at 3:28 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> >
> > Who is in the 70 mile wide eclipse path?  What are your plans and
> > strategems?
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes]

At home we are at like 90%. We just arrived in Osage Beach Mo which is the 
closest hotel room I could book 2 weeks ago to the path. We are going to head 
up to Jefferson City in the morning which is about 45 minutes away. Will find 
somewhere to park and hope for no clouds. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 20, 2017, at 3:28 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes 
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> 
> Who is in the 70 mile wide eclipse path?  What are your plans and
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Rick Knoble via Mercedes]

Buggered writes:

>‎will mean I should probably just walk >there as there will be no place to 
>park >within 30miles. 

Bicycle.  

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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes]

Of all the rotten luck.

On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <
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> I am right on the totality edge so my vast estate will be like 99%. If I
> go Over to the beach I think that will put me in 100% but unfortunately I
> have to go to Columbia tomorrow to testify in court on a matter of some
> importance. Columbia is right in the path too so this move by the judge is
> completely problematic as there is an expectation of millions of people
> descending on the city which will mean I should probably just walk there as
> there will be no place to park within 30miles.
>
> At least he says we will have lunch and time to watch the event but that
> might mean that my slot on the schedule could bleed over until Tuesday
> which would entail another run up there.
>
> The judge is pretty much a known jerk too, do there's that. I think he did
> this deliberately to cause us problems.
>
> --R
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Re: [MBZ] OT In the path of the eclipse

[Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes]

I am right on the totality edge so my vast estate will be like 99%. If I go 
Over to the beach I think that will put me in 100% but unfortunately I have to 
go to Columbia tomorrow to testify in court on a matter of some importance. 
Columbia is right in the path too so this move by the judge is completely 
problematic as there is an expectation of millions of people descending on the 
city which will mean I should probably just walk there as there will be no 
place to park within 30miles. 

At least he says we will have lunch and time to watch the event but that might 
mean that my slot on the schedule could bleed over until Tuesday which would 
entail another run up there. 

The judge is pretty much a known jerk too, do there's that. I think he did this 
deliberately to cause us problems. 

--R
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> 
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