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Once in a lifetime on the current track maybe. But the next one after this one happend in 2033.
I was 20km from the path of the totality. The next one I'll even be able to see a partial eclipse isn't happening until ~2045.
Sadly (or not), Life is a crapshoot.
You didn't bother to travel 20km to see the totality?
It was 3pm on a work day, so no that wasn't an option.
Jesus, imagine missing out on one of the most incredible things you could witness, that you may never have a chance to experience again, because you didn't want to miss a couple hours of work. Freaking capitalism, man.
Buddy, I have bills and the options were "see totality and lose job" or "see 99% coverage and keep job".
Unless you are a surgeon or something else that could result in lost lives if you took off 2 hours to see possibly the most spectacular thing our planet has to offer... I think you really need to reevaluate your job if you would have gotten fired for that. Personally, I'd be bitter as fuck.
99% coverage is essentially the same as 1% coverage. Things may get a little dimmer, but it's completely different from 100% coverage. It's not a gradient, you don't get 99% of the experience by being in 99% coverage. I really can't stress how much you missed out on, and hope that you make an effort to see the next US one in 20 years, or travel internationally to see a sooner one. Hopefully you'll have a better job by that time.
Here's a relevant xkcd on the matter. I think the alt-text sums it up. "A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky."
You act as though I'm not bitter about it. You pointing out how great it was and how much it sucks that I missed it only makes me more bitter.
There is no job market where I live. As in within my friend group, we have collectively applied to ~30 jobs in the last year and gotten 2 responses. My employer was very clear that they were not giving time off for the eclipse, so that wasn't an option. And had I just left, bye bye job. Can't pay rent, can't afford food.
If you want to point out how much it sucks, by all means. But don't act like you know my situation, like I don't know what I had to miss out on, and then point to fucking xkcd saying "see? I'm right".
Grow some fucking perspective.
Hey, you can't tell people in the past that! They might figure out the moon gets destroyed later. You want the time authority to vaporize you or something?
I am a Time Authority. Not a Lord, mind you. Those worthies get to tool around those fancy teleboxes doing all kinds of adventurous, dare i say, romatic escapades. We mere Authorities merely monitor and report. Vaporization is above my pay grade