Speaking of the Eclipse....
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@Renauda said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
Pretty sure it’s pronounced cicahda in the parts of this country where they occur.
Don’t have them put here, so it’s a
matter of tomato vs toemato or potato vs potaeta.Americans correcting the British on their pronounciation is nothing new.
Some fucker will pipe up in a minute and say 'back in medieval times everybody in England sounded exactly like John Wayne, you know!'
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@Renauda said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
Allah calls “snack time”.
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@Mik said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
At one time all the Americans sounded like Anthony Hopkins.
Welsh?
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
@Mik said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
At one time all the Americans sounded like Anthony Hopkins.Welsh?
Probably. I'm not sure I could understand either.
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@George-K said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
@Mik said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
Anthony Hopkins.
Who is a US Citizen, by the way.
Actually dual British/American citizenship.
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@Renauda said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
Ridiculous superstition still governs the minds of many.
Yes because standing outside wearing tin foil glasses and holding colanders up to sunlight is, like, not at all weird.
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@mark said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
I took 271 photos of it today from my back patio.
89.1% Partial Eclipse. Decided to stay home this time.
Canon 50D on a fixed tripod w/18-200mm Zoom at 200mm f5.6 1/1600 sec exposures, ISO 100. Baader Planitarium Solar Film Filter.271 photos aligned, registered and output to avi movie format using PIPP (Planetary Imaging Pre-Processor)
Link to video
It's not perfect, but it's still pretty cool. -
The eclipse from space.
https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2024/04/014/2404_014_AR_EN.mp4