This is the big winner? This fact is repeated in just about every elementary book concerning anything that has to do with eclipses. I'm claiming the bounty anyway, whether you awarded it or not, since obviously your judgment sucks.
The current scientific consensus is that the Moon was formed from the debris of a collision between the proto-Earth and a Mars-sized planetesimal, known as the giant impact hypothesis or Theia Impact, approximately 4.5 billion years ago in the Hadean eon.
...and that the just the right amount of material was ejected from the earth and it wound up at just the right distance. All seems highly improbable....
This principle addresses the seemingly improbable conditions that allow for our existence in the universe. When discussing the habitability of our planet and the odds of us living in a universe that supports life, the anthropic principle suggests that we can observe and reflect on these conditions because they are precisely what have allowed for our existence.
In a broader context, this principle comes in two main forms: the Weak Anthropic Principle (WAP) and the Strong Anthropic Principle (SAP). The Weak Anthropic Principle posits that the universe's physical laws and parameters are observed to allow life because only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be beings capable of observing and reflecting on these laws. In simpler terms, we can observe a universe conducive to life because we are a product of such a universe.
The Strong Anthropic Principle takes a more assertive stance, suggesting that the universe must have properties that inevitably lead to the development of conscious life at some point in its history.
Critics of the anthropic principle argue that it can border on tautology and doesn't provide a causal explanation for why the universe is the way it is. Instead, it merely states that if things were different, we wouldn't be here to notice them. This perspective shifts the focus from why the universe is habitable to the observation that we are here because it is habitable, which doesn't necessarily explain the underlying mechanisms or reasons for the universe's life-supporting conditions.
Sure, but there are many planets in our solar system - and countless more in the universe - that don't have their moons positioned at the exact size/distance to produce perfect solar eclipses.
Neither does it seem probable that this exact distance was necessary for creation of life.
There is something called the Goldilocks zone suggesting a series of quite stringent conditions on the distance from a star to support the creation of life. Not sure creation is the word one would like to use though ;)
I bet there is a physics reason for this that we haven't discovered yet.
Some weird quirk with gravity and speed/impulse that nudged the moon exactly to that distance away. Idk - maybe we'll find an explanation in a few years or decades
The longest duration for a total solar eclipse possible is 7.5 minutes. During this eclipse the shadow of the Moon races across the Earth at 2410 mph in western Oregon down to 1502 mph near Chareston, SC. Partial solar eclipses can be seen up to 3,000 miles from the "track" of totality.
You don't need special eclipse viewing glasses in order to "see" the eclipse very well.
You can just poke a small hole in a piece of paper, and project the sun from that hole ono another sheet of paper. It will show the shadow moving across the sun very well. The further away you hold the 2 sheets of paper, the better it works.
An eclipse was the sign of Jonah when he went to Nineveh. It is said those men will rise up and judge the nation at the end of time. This eclipse has many towns named Nineveh it will be crossing through.
When the sun is blocked out, the temperature drops noticeably. During the last total solar eclipse in the U.S. in 2017, the National Weather Service recorded that temperature dropped as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit. In Carbondale, Ill. for example, the temperature dropped from a peak of 90 degrees Fahrenheit just before totality to 84 degrees during totality.
The epicenter of the longest duration of the 8-21-2017 eclipse was over a place called Cerulean Ky. It happened to get its name because the Sulpher Spring turned to Cerulean blue from the great earthquake of 1811.
I remember as a little kid, I was probably 5or 6, we had a solar eclipse in my country of origin, and someone went to the radio to annonce the end of the world was coming. Many people freaked out and no amount of démenti could assuage their distresses...😅
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The original Mitsubishi Eclipse however wasn't named after the celestial event. It's true. The sports compact car, although produced between 1989 and 2011, was actually named after an undefeated 18th-century British thoroughbred racehorse that won 18 races
If you can believe it there are a long history of eclipse enthusiasts, who call themselves "umbraphiles." People travel around the world to witness the few minutes of solar eclipse totality.
I love how we know when and where the next solar eclipse will take place for hundreds of years to come but that is irrelevant when it could be raining and we don’t see anything.
But during a total solar eclipse, the corona becomes visible, offering unique opportunities to study it. When the Moon completely blocks the visible surface of the Sun during a total solar eclipse, viewers can remove their eclipse glasses.
In 1919 a solar eclipse allowed us to measure the deflection of light passing close to the Sun, as predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. This fundamentally changed our understanding of gravity and the nature of space and time.
Some animals exhibit unusual behavior during a solar eclipse. Birds may stop singing, and nocturnal animals may become active as the sky darkens in the middle of the day.
The maximum number of solar eclipses (partial, annular, or total) is 5 per year, and there are at least 2 solar eclipses per year somewhere on the Earth.
The temperature will drop