#solar-eclipse

“An Ethereal Twilight: The Solar Eclipse Over Schoharie Valley – Image Courtesy of Dall-E and David Sawin with The Esoteric Echo” Please note: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases made through links in this article. Your support helps me continue to bring you more great content. Thank you for your support! As the moon casts its shadow across the Earth, Schoharie County, NY,…

Something really cool about the world is that people can believe whatever stupid things they want to.

If you didn’t know this already, there are some people out there who completely reject science and believe that Earth is flat instead of round. The tapestry of humanity is varied and brilliant. Flat Earthers believe that NASA photos showing the round earth are doctored by CGI and have other theories “debunking” everything we know to be true.

They were especially hopeful that last week’s eclipse would reveal the hoax that is the entire scientific community. Think they succeeded? Here’s what went down.

Rapper B.o.B. is perhaps the most famous Flat Earther, and during the eclipse he tweeted his (unintelligible) ramblings about the moon not being visible before or after the eclipse.

When asked what actually caused the eclipse, B.o.B. responded, “Rahu.” He is referring to an ancient mythological being that was responsible for astronomical events. Oooookay.

Other Flat Earthers brought out their old stand-by: the images from across the country were all CGI.

Summary: it was cloudy only during the eclipse.  Other than that, there was only a thin veil of clouds before and after the eclipse.

Travis and I had fun chatting outside on his balcony though.  (we were going to go hiking to see the eclipse from a nearby mountain hill, but I chose to cancel it when I saw how overcast it was.

I got a few pics tho

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This is a snapshot from Star Walk app on Lin's iPad.