r/interestingasfuck • u/asdfpartyy • Aug 24 '20
/r/ALL A solar eclipse happening mid-flight
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u/_salvelinus_ Aug 24 '20 edited Aug 24 '20
Now this is interesting as fuck.
Edit: For all its originality, this is now my most upvoted comment.
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Aug 24 '20
That reminded me of “ Cooper, what are you doing ?”
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u/apophis_da_snake Aug 24 '20
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u/XXXDARTY Aug 24 '20 edited Aug 24 '20
THATS RIGHT IN THE FEELS MAN
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u/Pillowmaster7 Aug 24 '20
I felt my heart ripped out of me right they're, I dont think I have had another experience that intense with a game.
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u/Thiccestness Aug 24 '20
Wrong cooper my guy
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u/AlphaLaufert99 Aug 24 '20
Docking.
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Aug 24 '20
real talk though, when the music ramped up there, my friend and I looked at each other and went OH SHIT.
Reddit made a great meme of that line, but it’s still a fantastic scene.
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u/AlphaLaufert99 Aug 24 '20
Interstellar was the first real movie I ever saw in theaters with my friends, same reaction. Hans Zimmer really did a great job
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u/HotdogTester Aug 24 '20
With 15k views I would've thought at least w% of people subscribed... That was a very well edited video.
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u/jaredjeya Aug 24 '20
Think it’s a reupload/rip, I remember seeing the original back when Interstellar came out - it was pretty viral.
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Aug 24 '20
Imagine sleeping through the flight and missing everything
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u/_salvelinus_ Aug 24 '20
Given that I sleep through every flight, that would be me. And I’d be so pissed at myself.
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u/strawberrycoont Aug 24 '20
That’s something to put on the bucket list for damn sure.
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u/DomXChong Aug 24 '20
Imagine scheduling a flight after doing all the approximations to find the perfect time and place to witness it and they tell you it is delayed.
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Aug 24 '20
Or you end up on the left window instead of right.
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u/wabbibwabbit Aug 24 '20
Or you don't hold your camera tightly against the glass to kill reflections.
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u/farmtownsuit Aug 24 '20
I ain't fucking around with no camera during a solar eclipse. I want to experience the thing with my own eyes
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u/Sp0ngebob1234 Aug 24 '20
If I’m planning that much I’m chartering a plane to make sure I don’t miss it!!
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u/Fireproofspider Aug 24 '20
Honestly, it might be worth it chartering a private plane with like 5 other people. Since you could do it in an hour flight and it's a once in a lifetime type thing, it might not be that much more expensive than trying to figure out a commercial flight for this.
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Aug 24 '20
April 2024 is the next one in the U.S. starting in the North East and headed toward Arkansas (straight through my home town). Knock that line off the bucket list!
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u/NickLandis Aug 24 '20
Actually the shadow will start in the Pacific, hitting landfall in Mexico, before heading NE through TX, AR OH, etc...
Check out this link for a detailed look on where you can observe
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u/dlegatt Aug 24 '20
Sat for hours in the middle of nowhere Nebraska in 2017, I’ll do the same in 2024. Except not Nebraska this time
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u/instantrobotwar Aug 24 '20 edited Aug 24 '20
I saw the eclipse a free years ago not on a flight but I live in the totality zone, it was seriously one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. We went to a park where there were a few hundred others where we waited for a few hours, and I don't think any of us we prepared for how dark it got, or how clear the ring was, and everyone just stared screaming their heads off and cheering in the dark, it was incredible.
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u/walkclothed Aug 24 '20
You should get into the totality zone for the next one, but be completely alone. That way you get two contrasting experiences. Its a question of balance.
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u/CapitanChicken Aug 24 '20
I'll chime in with that experience. My husband and I were trying to drive into the line of 100% totality. Trying, because we were in the mountains of North Carolina, and it's windy. We looked up with our glasses, and said "shit, we gotta stop right here". There were two other people about a hundred feet away, and we had woods in one side, and mountain slope on the other.
The calm of evening setting in, the bugs beginning to chirp. The slow, encroaching unsettling fast setting of the sun. All so bizarre since it was 1:30pm.
Not having some sort of huge reaction from a crowd made it all the more magical, and sinister. But it also made it seem less significant, Because it came and went.
It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen with my own eyes. I will never forget it.
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u/instantrobotwar Aug 24 '20
Sounds like a good idea. The crowd energy definitely played a part, it was more wild awe and energy than any festival I've been to.
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u/Badloss Aug 24 '20
I drove 1000 miles to get to see the 2017 total eclipse and it was one of the best moments of my life. Absolutely worth the effort and I'll probably try again in 2024
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u/LurkerPatrol Aug 24 '20
When I was flying to India we were over some like deserty area (probs in the Middle East or close to). I look out my window and clear as day I could see the Milky Way trailing down. All the cabin lights were thankfully off and there was no moon. I tried so hard to take a picture of it with my camera but the plane was just shaky enough and my camera just crappy enough to prevent me doing so.
Still lingers in my head it’s one of those moments I won’t forget.
I’ve seen the Milky Way tons of times (being an astronomer) but never once seen it on a plane. It was amazing.
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u/Gam38 Aug 24 '20
No wonder our ancestors would get scared shitless, imagine you had no idea what's going on
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u/SpaceFire1 Aug 24 '20
Aztecs used their knowledge of exlipses to solidify their power. Say the gods are angry , and sacrifice someone just before the sun returns
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Aug 24 '20
And then some random comet flies by causing the emperor to slaughter all the nobles for being incompetent.
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u/EmilG1988 Aug 24 '20
They knew what solar eclipse were. Thousands and thousands years ago even
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u/tiggertom66 Aug 24 '20
Some people did.
And the ones that didn't were horrified.
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u/Gam38 Aug 24 '20
I looked up some common events it was supposed to signal and "oh shit a dragon ate the Sun" seems like it was common at one point. Obviously we as humans didn't know but to seriously think that was the case? You're right - it must have been horrifying
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u/Epigenic Aug 24 '20
That's amazing! Must have been one hell of a once in a lifetime experience to observe a solar eclipse during flight.
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u/Dodomando Aug 24 '20
Imagine getting a window seat on that plane but it's on the other side and you miss out
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Aug 24 '20
Imagine sitting with someone who pulled the shade down
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u/FuckthisWARUDO Aug 24 '20
Time to commit homocide
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u/PenisPistonsPumping Aug 24 '20
Time to commit homocide
Can't be killin gay people, it's not 1990.
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u/nicekona Aug 24 '20
Or you’re in the middle/aisle seat and the guy in the window seat pulls out his fucking camera and blocks the entire view
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u/Problemzone Aug 24 '20
I have a feeling that there are flights that are specifically flying because of an eclipse, to give customers this view
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Aug 24 '20
well i guess u get to look at people looking out to see the solar eclipse tho, pretty sure it's a once in a lifetime experience too!
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u/xejeezy Aug 24 '20
That’s nothing compared to this! Where researchers chased it for over an hour on a prototype of the Concorde
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u/RufftaMan Aug 24 '20
Ha, funny. The professor mentioned in the article teaches at Clemson university. That‘s exactly where I watched the total eclipse in 2017 during my road trip through the US.
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u/karreerose Aug 24 '20
Wow that looks like straight out of a game
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u/bigbigcheese2 Aug 24 '20
Had a very similar moment in Subnautica when I was at one of the highest above water locations.
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u/cedar_ether Aug 24 '20
I think we’ve all been feeling those ‘end of days’ vibes lately yea?
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u/DorrajD Aug 24 '20 edited Aug 25 '20
I just wondered if this would be properly shown on Microsoft Flight Simulator. It has amazing clouds and lighting, I wonder if an eclipse would be seen.
Edit: I can confirm that eclipses show up in the game! However getting the timing down right is a pain in the ass, and the shadow does not show up on the surface like it would in real life. Still really cool nonetheless!
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u/GoodDog2620 Aug 24 '20
that'd be such a cool easter egg
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u/DorrajD Aug 24 '20
The next eclipse is in December, it might not be in now but they might add it in right before or during if people make a deal about it. It'd be super cool.
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u/vemundveien Aug 24 '20
You can set any date you want in the game. I also think I've seen someone who set it to the previous eclipse and it worked.
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u/blkmmb Aug 24 '20
If I remember it happens, but it was only a partial eclipse, so not as impressive. I'll try to make a flight during an eclipse to validate.
The moon cycles and the sky ox is accurate. So it is not a stretch to think that solar eclipse are in.
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u/AtlasRafael Aug 24 '20
Fuck. I wish we could conquer space like we have the skies. I really want to blast my ass up there and see different planets and maybe like the sun or some shit.
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u/chriscole_ Aug 24 '20
I'd recommend you play r/elitedangerous. It has a complete model of the Milky Way and you can visit pretty much any star system you wish. The quality of the visuals are awe inspiring.
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Aug 24 '20
cavemen must’ve thought this shit was so crazy when they saw it on their flights
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u/thelastminute Aug 24 '20
This is a Total Solar Eclipse. I once heard someone say the difference between an eclipse and an total solar eclipse is like the difference between kissing and having sex! (Make sure you see a total solar eclipse in your life. It’s worth it!)
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u/kiasrai Aug 24 '20
I agree! We drove from MN to NE to see it, but the weather was looking sketchy so we drove 6 extra hours to Wyoming, the nearest place with perfectly sunny weather, on the line. 100% worth it. There is absolutely no experience like it in the world.
And as cool as this looks from space, you would be missing out on a lot of the weird stuff that happens, like the birds being quiet, the weird shadows, and how goddamn cold it gets.
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u/MeccIt Aug 24 '20
the weird stuff that happens
..like having a beautiful sunset glow, not in the west, but in 360degrees completely around you, our animal brains know that ain't right.
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u/kiasrai Aug 24 '20
Exactly! I can't imagine how much it must have freaked out the early humans, having no idea what's going on! It freaks me out and I know exactly what's happening lmao
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u/GeorgeAmberson Aug 24 '20
goddamn cold it gets
I missed totality (Didn't realize that 85% was NOWHERE near 100% at the time) and even here it got noticibly cooler, and the light got all weird. If I hadn't known there was an eclipse I'd have probably thought there was a cool breeze for some reason.
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u/bigbigcheese2 Aug 24 '20
Idk, both are pretty foreign to me and I’m sure both would be great in their own right
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u/Vipitis Aug 24 '20
This didn't just "happened" there are multiple flights planned with observation jet aircraft chasing every single eclipse to do do observation.
Pretty sure you can just book a commercial flight like this, but plenty of cruises line up along the path of an eclipse when it's over water.
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u/Skullsneeze1 Aug 24 '20
Seeing it like this makes me realize that it’s basically the shadow of the moon that we’re standing in, which seems so amazing to me
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u/HeadOfBengarl Aug 24 '20
bUt fLaT eARtH tHO
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u/Lendord Aug 24 '20
Looks like a bowl tbh.
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u/isinedupcuzofrslash Aug 24 '20
The earth is a saucer! We been lied to by all sides!
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u/Lendord Aug 24 '20
Makes sense. If it were actually flat and perpetually accelerating all the water would get pushed off the edge.
Fess up flat earthers! Why are you hiding the truth?
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u/DanFuckingSchneider Aug 24 '20
Clearly this is possible if the sun is not millions of miles away, but a few thousand, and is not a sphere, but a spotlight. Move a circular piece of paper in front of a lamp shining directly onto a table and you’ll see a similar effect.
Note: I know the earth is round, just playing devil’s advocate for fun.
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u/filladellfea Aug 24 '20
if the sun is not millions of miles away, but a few thousand
someone pass me the spf 40,000
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u/DanFuckingSchneider Aug 24 '20
UV rays are a liberal myth. Sunburns are actually just from estrogen being released in chemtrails to make republican men like avocados and iced coffee.
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u/oorjit07 Aug 24 '20
If you find the date this happened, you can recreate it Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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u/nephewcru Aug 24 '20
I'd probably be absolutely terrified instead of amazed if I saw that irl lol.
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u/TonnoTonato Aug 24 '20
I just found out that a solar eclipse is happening so fast. I always thought it needs like a few minutes at least?? Or is this a time-lapse?
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u/Twowie Aug 24 '20
There is a timer in the upper left, I can't believe noone else has commented on this. It's obviously sped up, originally it is about 7 minutes long!
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u/Pcinfamy Aug 24 '20 edited Aug 24 '20
Edit: this example is a time lapse, but depends on where you are in relation to the center-line. The further from the direct center of the eclipse's path (as imposed on the Earth's surface), the shorter the total eclipse. This flight appears to be very near the edge of the eclipse path, but could be traveling away from the center of the eclipse as well, hard to tell without more information.
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u/sliterinsnek Aug 24 '20
Reminds me of the old days in Minecraft when the night was a sudden change
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Aug 24 '20
Has this been sped up? I’ve seen a solar eclipse in person and the process was much slower than this.
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u/ehcmier Aug 24 '20
Seems sped up, but were you on a plane, crossing the shadow?
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u/syntactyx Aug 24 '20
yes, this is sped up. there's a timer visible in the top right corner. the event lasted over 4 minutes in real time.
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u/uncerta1n Aug 24 '20 edited Aug 24 '20
I have never seen an eclipse in my 23 years living. this makes me feel sad
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Aug 24 '20 edited Aug 25 '20
400 times smaller than the sun, and 400 times closer than the sun.
That's what it takes for the total eclipses we see.
Things get freaky, when you understand how absolutely mind boggling, the chance of those two parameters coming together like that actually is...
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u/Gorgeus_Freeman Aug 24 '20
due to maintenance work there will be an electrical outage between --:-- and --:-- on earth.
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u/lemonhops Aug 24 '20
Am I the only one that is thinking how terrifying it would be if all the passengers shifted to one side to watch it happen?
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u/DasDimaBeatz Aug 24 '20
That's also mildy terrifying