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The eclipse is about to begin. Totality will arrive at Mexico’s west coast around 11.07am local time, moving east until it leaves Newfoundland, Canada, around 5.16pm there.
On 8 April, a total solar eclipse will sweep across Mexico, the US and Canada. This kind of eclipse only occurs when the sun and moon line up perfectly in the sky so the moon covers the entire disc of the sun, casting a shadow on Earth. The path that this shadow takes as it rushes across the ground at speeds in excess of 2400 kilometres per hour is called the path of totality, and during this eclipse it will pass from Mexico’s west coast, up across 13 US states and through Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland in Canada. At any given location, totality will last between about 90 seconds and nearly 4.5 minutes.
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Tell me how this works flat earthers? 🤣

[@Eternal_Satyr]

Well, see, God works in mysterious ways. 😆

[@fingerprint5511]

🙄 spoken like its the time of the Dinosaurs ​@DeepThoughtFastFacts

[@Eternal_Satyr]

@@fingerprint5511 I was being sarcastic.

[@Lunar_edits_gorilatag]

I wish it I could see it:(

[@justinowdfart8155]

couldn't we just have had a camera fixed for the whole eclipse, full screen, instead of interjecting it with wittering idiots with microphones?

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Someone may be doing it, but unfortunately not on the youtube or internet.

[@snowflakesnightmare8592]

Why can't you see the moon before and after in the sky.... it just disappears

[@Stigmadiablo]

Same principle as when you are dazzled by car lights and can't see anything beside it, it's just too bright to see anything beside. Plus, you are behind the moon which is reflecting barely any light at all

[@bandulaamarawardena6576]

Even if you were in a satellite, the moon will be black against a black sky. At other times, astronauts will see various crescents of the moon all the time, depending on how the moon is lit by the sun, and where your own position of the orbit is.

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How did people know the eclipse was happening?

[@bandulaamarawardena6576]

By calculations that are more than 5000 years old...!!

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that died out so long ago

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first

[@jonasespinoza6967]

Poor guy, he is a scientist but he doesn't know how to talk. He trampled on his own words, and, and, and.....

[@neelofarkhan9358]

Shame on you all of humans it's not a celebration day . Look at the world all people is slowly died and still continues deadful century. Shame usa Canada Mexico people. That's time is prayer 🙏 to our Allah God not enjoying a day . Astaghfirullah.

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Don't do drugs. Please, just don't.

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There are many terrible things happening but everyone still deserves happy moments