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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #101 on: August 19, 2017, 10:58:19 PM »
If i buy special glasses from anywhere, even if it has the right code printed on it is there any way to know forsure that it's real?
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #102 on: August 19, 2017, 11:03:20 PM »
Does anyone know where I can find good certified glasses in the 5Towns area?
Only thing I would feel comfortable with would be welders googles (IINM needs to be least shade 13).
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #103 on: August 19, 2017, 11:05:31 PM »
Only thing I would feel comfortable with would be welders googles (IINM needs to be least shade 13).
Don't think they make 13 so go with 14. Find an old welder with #14 googles and if he isn't blind you know they work.  :)
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #104 on: August 20, 2017, 12:08:10 AM »
Any award flights available from the NY or PHL to anywhere in the path?

Update:AA has a flight to Charlotte and Evansville, Indiana tom
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #105 on: August 20, 2017, 01:20:56 AM »
Jewel-Osco has them by us.
Which location?

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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #107 on: August 20, 2017, 05:10:46 AM »
On a flight from LAX to TLV!!! Hopefully I'll see it

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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #109 on: August 20, 2017, 09:25:28 AM »
In CA, sure. Plus, a day of conservation will only seem funner. If it's close enough to Earth Day then Sesame Street and NPR will help out. But the rest of the country may find it tougher to widely implement conservation.

A few hours of sunlight downtime is a blip in the larger scheme of things, but the energy industry has to make contingency plans for everything.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-17/an-eclipse-is-just-what-the-u-s-power-sector-s-been-waiting-for
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #111 on: August 20, 2017, 12:18:07 PM »
So does anyone know of anywhere in Brooklyn that you can still get eclipse glasses?

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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #112 on: August 20, 2017, 12:28:48 PM »
So does anyone know of anywhere in Brooklyn that you can still get eclipse glasses?
And how about in Monsey?

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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #113 on: August 20, 2017, 01:20:29 PM »
Somewhere around MCI
Looking now at an award ticket to fly in MCI tomorrow 10am, where is a good spot in the area for best viewing?
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #114 on: August 20, 2017, 01:21:06 PM »
Looking now at an award ticket to fly in MCI tomorrow 10am, where is a good spot in the area for best viewing?
St Joseph or Columbia, MO.
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #115 on: August 20, 2017, 01:47:22 PM »
Thanks.

Will take St. Joseph as it's a shorter drive from MCI. 

Any specific spot, like a park, tall building etc.?

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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #117 on: August 20, 2017, 08:50:39 PM »
I'll be on an airplane.   Here's hoping I can catch a glimpse.
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #118 on: August 20, 2017, 08:52:51 PM »
So does anyone know of anywhere in Brooklyn that you can still get eclipse glasses?
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #119 on: August 20, 2017, 08:53:38 PM »
I'll be on an airplane.   Here's hoping I can catch a glimpse.
well I guess for now you'll just be up in the air.
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