As Ace of Spades HQ notes, get up early: it’ll be happening just at sunrise. Complicating matters is, of course, Daily Savings Time ends tonight; which means an extra hour to sleep in / an absurd tradition that makes no sense / embrace the healing power of ‘and,’ depending on who you ask. At least it’s supposed to be clear skies, where I am…
Tag: eclipse
“The Lego Antikythera Mechanism.”
I’m stealing the title from @bdomenech, but only because it’s a perfect description of the video:
…although I have to wonder why the ancient Greeks needed to predict solar eclipses so precisely that they actually built a machine to calculate the next one. It’s not like they’re all that common, or have any physical result on the landscape… Continue reading “The Lego Antikythera Mechanism.”