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      04-07-2024, 12:57 PM   #56
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Originally Posted by Llarry View Post
My house was quite close to the totality in 2017 and we had a few visitors from a bit further away. Yes, an eclipse is interesting, but I find the brouhaha amusing. It's simply not *THAT* big a deal, is it? Buying airplane tickets? Making hotel reservations?
Exactly, it's not as if it's once every 500 lifetimes either (roughly 20 years or so?), and we can see LOTS of footage online later on. I am kinda interested to see if there will be near darkness in what normally should be daytime but that's about it.
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