Interesting Links for 10-04-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Solar eclipse viewed from a Starlink satellite

(tags:space eclipse video )

2. Sunday's Eclipse as seen from a weather satellite

(tags:space eclipse video )

3. People who work in advertising are much more likely to use adblockers

(tags:advertising adblock viaPatrickHadfield )

4. A teacher promised his 1978 class an eclipse party. He just hosted it.

(tags:teaching space newyork history )

Comments

[simont]

#3: well, that falsifies my theory! I've always imagined that advertising insiders would be more likely to watch ads. Not because I imagined them believing their own propaganda about how it's your moral or legal duty (I've no idea about that), but because I thought probably they'd want to keep an eye on the competition, see what other advertisers are up to, nick any good ideas they spot, that kind of thing.

[andrewducker]

Everyone knows that other people's ads are just terrible. It's only your own that are any good.

[calimac]

4. That actually outdoes in length of a homework assignment the previous record, recounted by the magician Teller, of how his high school English teacher in 1963 suggested that his students go to the British Museum in 1997 and wait for Enoch Soames to show up. Teller did, and this is what happened.

[fanf]

What a fun story!

Forecasting and eclipses

[bens_dad]

Around 1980 I learnt that the next total eclipse visible from any part of the UK would be in August 1999, and totality would only be visible from a part of Cornwall. Hearing that Cornwall is crowded in the school summer holidays, I predicted that I would not be in Cornwall on August 12 1999 when the Eclipse happened.

Having explored possible places on continent, including Hungary and Romania, I ended up watching the Eclipse from ... Newquay in Cornwall :-).

When the eclipse started the sky was clouded, but it is recognised that the clouds sometimes part just for totality. Like the class of 1978 this week, I did not see the moon during the partial eclipse, but the clouds did clear just enough for me to watch totality.

Patrick Moore and his BBC TV crew were also in Cornwall, but were not so lucky in the wrong part of Cornwall and the clouds did not part for them. His long running astronomy programme "The Sky at Night", was broadcast every New Moon, so he had booked the slot on the BBC for the eclipse about 42 years in advance !

Re: Forecasting and eclipses

[andrewducker]

I am envious. Sadly, the next UK totality isn't for 90 years, but I shall try to get to one somewhere!

[darkoshi]

Neat videos!

[andrewducker]

Glad you enjoyed them as much as I did!