Posted on 08/21/2017 8:25:36 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Today is the day of the Great American Eclipse. Those along its path of totality will (if the clouds permit) see an amazing sight that will never be forgotten by those watching. Your humble correspondent knows this because he was once lucky enough to view a total solar eclipse.
The great thing about watching a total solar eclipse is that it absorbs all of your attention. One big reason is that it is indeed a miracle of nature. The moon is 400 times smaller than the sun but because it is also 400 times nearer to earth, both appear to be the same size which results in an almost perfect match when lined up during a solar eclipse. The odds of this coincidence is estimated to be incredibly small. In addition, total eclipses have only existed for a sliver of earth's history and in millions of years the moon will have moved too far away from earth for it to be happening again. So who could possibly detract from this magnificent celestial event? Atlantic magazine which completely trivialized the eclipse by politicizing it by making it all about the racial makeup along its path.
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The sun is RAYcist!
Using some logarithmic scale or something?
By volume, 64.3 million moons can fit into the sun.
1.3 million earths can fit into the sun.
Remember that 400 times is in one dimension (diameter) as both are spheres you need to scale it up in 3 dimensions. A 2X2X2 cube is 8 times smaller than a 4X4X4 cube in terms ov volume.
It is really getting to the point where EVERYTHING is about race, sex (gender+orientation), religion, etc. The relentless focus on identity is really wearing thin on most people—me included. Hard to see how this is a winner long term.
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All leftist thought is racist at its core.
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But if the eclipse blocks out all light, we all pretty much have the same skin color.
The eclipse is passing over almost nothing but red Trump counties! Trump voters are being rewarded with a celestial show while Hillary voters in NY and LA are wallowing in abject misery.
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By the subtended angle of the visible disk? (apogee)
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Sorry, but I don't feel bad.
They got their racist Obama for eight years.
What they are doing now is trying to open up some imaginary wound that none of us caused.
The truth is that more people today have become enslaved by muslins and sex predators than whatever happened a couple of centuries ago.
The people supporting the muslins and sex predators today were all in the Obama administration and were defeated by Donald Trump in the last election.
And they can't stand it.
Only the NAZIs thought so much about race. The dems are 1000% obsessed with race.
This is ridiculous.
Women, Children, and Minorities Denied Benefits of Sunshine.....
Because the moon is white.
We are all pretty much have the same skin color every day. We are all one shade or another of brown, since there is no true black anywhere in nature. The only folks who are not brown are albinos, since they are pink.
What is this freak’s point? That the eclipse is racist? That the eclipse is a warning to whites? That people who are interested in the eclipse are mainly white? That people should ignore the eclipse because it is a form of white privilege? ???
Smoke from forest fires will obscure the event here over the Humboldt Bay region of Nor-Cal...
They don’t want the same skin color. They just want white folks dead.
How can the sun be racist, if it turns white people red or brown?
They’re using diameter
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