Solar Eclipse - Do you care?

[Ken The Kanuck]

Me, not much. If I remember I might look at it.

How about you?

KTK

[Jiminvirginia]

Meh. Me neither and dont look at it. Can cause eye damage.

I would rather see a tsunami but considering all of the safety requirements it would have to meet, no danger to me, others and no property damage. The chance is about zero.

[leftyo]

not overly interested, nor concerned.

[ray55classic]

It's like a well advertised HollyWeird BlockBuster that looks great in the previews but puts you to sleep in a couple of minutes ,
it's anticlimactic in spades. Your left thinking "Is that all there is?"
Give me a clear night sky & a good meteor shower anytime.

[SwampRatt]

Nope.

[JB White]

I might glance at it just to say I saw it. Can't be any worse in damage than turning a corner and having the sun in your eyes. Of course then you react and turn away. Have to remember to do that with an eclipse.

[m1ashooter]

Nope don't care either.

[Ken The Kanuck]

Meh. Me neither and dont look at it. Can cause eye damage.

I would rather see a tsunami but considering all of the safety requirements it would have to meet, no danger to me, others and no property damage. The chance is about zero.

I'll put on a welding helmet with a #10 shade.

KTK

[TomSudz]

While driving around our nations capital I noticed that all of the roadside announcement signs are reminding motorists that there is an eclipse on Monday and that- PARKING IS NOT ALLOWED ON INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS. I wouldn't have thought the reminder necessary, but having experience with driving in the D.C. area I understand the need. The problem I see is that since the signs are in english, about 90% of those seeing the signs can't understand them.

[dryheat]

I'm old enough that I've seen partial eclipses. It's kind of cool to see the weird shadows on the ground(better than looking at the thing). I don't think D.C. is in the path. It's going through FL. I like night time photo shoots. I dig meteors. I saw one while out camping that was awesome. I just missed seeing this one; I was up a 4:00 a.m. but wasn't outside. It was estimated to be 10 ft' across. The high alt. wind twisted the contrail. Kind of like the Vandenberg missiles. The second pic is one I captured a year ago. It's not a big deal, but it was a big deal to me. The eclipse is a big deal not because it's a lucky shot or anything. Likely astronomers have figured out the next fifty of them into the year 15050, but it's a reminder that big things move around in our neighborhood and I hope some six year old remembers it.
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[S.A. Boggs]

No.
Sam

[k arga]

No, I'm in the center of it, Clarendon county sc and could care less.

[Johnny P]

An event that doesn't happen very often, and I will certainly observe it. Rather watch that than a hockey game.

[Vern Humphrey]

I saw a total eclipse in '54 in Peru. I was going to school, and the Christian Brothers, who ran the school had set up a device like a reverse telescope -- if focused the sun an a sheet of cardboard, and you could watch the eclipse that way.

[Dick Hosmer]

Like most of us, I've seen several partial eclipses, but it would be nice to be able to see the corona effect live. But, for a number of reasons, that is not going to happen.