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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Space shuttle is pretty cool. Personally wouldn't put any movie experience in the same universe as the eclipse.

Like it's entirely possible that we're the only planet in the galaxy that has eclipses like that and quite possibly the only one in the universe with life on it to witness such an event.

And you're stood there watching as a incomprehensiblely big ball of rock held above us by nothing more than its own angular momentum happe s to perfectly cross infront of and block out and even possibly bigger ball of fusing gas and do it so perfectly it blocks the disk of the sin but leave the corona and solar flares still visible to the naked eye, you watch the world around start to die in the most unnatural way, the temperature drops and then suddenly its night time in the middle of the day, the animals go crazy, you have a 360° sunset and the sun is replaced by black disk surrounded by s ring of fire. Its pretty much a supernatural event.

So I just really cannot comprehend how anyone could /possibly/ compare it watching a movie. That's like comparing witnessing the birth of your own child to finding a dollar on the street.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

But all that stuff is still true whether you see it yourself or not. I don't quite get this line of reasoning. Were you unsure about the nature of astral bodies before that point?

Again, I have no intention of diminishing your experience, unlike you mine. I am super happy that you had a surreal experience. I just felt extremely underwhelmed personally.

Also, people keep saying this about animals, but I didn't witness that at all. My dog slept through it.