Awesome! I couldn’t make it that year to Symbiosis, but we are definitely going this year to the Oregon Eclipse festival. The lineup is incredible, and with early arrival and vehicle passes and everything, it will be a full on 10 day adventure! Really excited and can’t wait. The eclipse itself will just be so over the top for the whole experience out there!
Oh man, thats amazing, Im jealous! Id really love to go to that. I get an email every week about it. I have a couple of friends playing there, and so many more id love to see. The symbiosis crew is so awesome. They helped us put together Yuris night about a decade ago at NASA Ames. It was so much fun.
Wow, that’s excellent. Who are your friends? I have an application in to perform (DJ), but haven’t heard any confirmation yet. I know they’ve already been releasing the main acts for the multiple stages with the big names. So, fingers crossed!
Spokenbird and Kaminanda. I didnt know you spun records! If you have anything online Id love to hear!
Oh cool. I’ve heard Kaminanda before.
I’ll pm you rather than self promote spam here…
LOVE Kaminanda. I actually met him through a friend, and heard him first time at pyramid eclipse while waiting on kalya to play. He blew me away. I was actually chilling at that set with spokenbird at the time too. You should check him out, some great stuff. And yeah… def shoot me a PM!
Cool, done.
I saw you on there before making some posts, and should have friended you then, as now I can’t even find that post or the group is was in anywhere…
Sorry to derail this thread!
Until August 21st comes along, there’s really no way to know whether an eclipse will actually happen or not. Personally, I’m planning on viewing an eclipse that day, but maybe it would be better to maintain a healthy skepticism.
Thanks for mentioning this, @rpegg! I didn’t realize it was coming up, but now our family has made plans to head to the Oregon coast to see it. Bought a cheap telephoto to get a closeup, too.
I have a hard time telling when others are joking. Astronomers have predicted every eclipse for a hundred years down to a few seconds. Zero doubt that it will happen, and will happen exactly at the time and along the path described. Might be cloudy. Sorry if it was said tongue in cheek.
Not sure what you mean here. If our Sun, Moon, and planet exist on 21-Aug-2017, there will be a total eclipse of the Sun. This is simply a fact.
Here’s some history on the subject.
I’m pretty sure he was kidding.
Hey, I got my eclipse glasses! Ready to party!
You’d think. But people think things. I never underestimate people’s ability to think things. I have a brother who actually believed (believes?) our Moon doesn’t affect tides on Earth. He refused to believe it! (We’re talking about a full adult here, BTW.)
But what if causality is just a hoax?
I was joking.
La la la it’s flat I tell you! la la la
Oh, thank goodness!
taking Hirudin off the crazy/ignore list
I wish I read philosophers, I don’t dedicate the time though.
To save you the trouble:
“21. Matters of fact, which are the second objects of human reason, are not ascertained in the same manner; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false, it would imply a contradiction, and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind”
Excerpt From: Hume, David. “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.”
Currently trying to unpack that!