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Saw The Eclipse And Aurora? Now Comes A Third Once-In-A-Lifetime Event (www.forbes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I've seen 4 solar eclipses, not sure it's a once in a lifetime thing...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The ability to travel great distances with ease has really made it easier to experience a total solar eclipse than ever before.

Also, quite a lot of people have seen 0 solar eclipse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Those mentioned are just the ones where I lived at the time, 1 in CA when I was a kid, 1 in AZ when I lived there, and 2 since I moved here to Oregon ~8 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Dang, you lucky son of a gun.

[–] Jarvis2323 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Were they a total solar eclipse? Because those are way different then partial and I think qualify as once in a lifetime event.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Total eclipses happen frequently: there's one every 18 months. You just have to be willing to travel for them. A total eclipse over right where you live, that's a once-in-a-lifetime thing; those happen in once every 400 years or so. Back in the 1800's, most people could consider it lucky to see one in their lifetime simply because few people could travel very far. Nowadays? There are eclipse chasers who've seen a dozen or more total solar eclipses. With the amount people move around, and how accessible travel is, total eclipses totally do not qualify as once-in-a-lifetime events.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

The best majority won't travel far too see an eclipse, so for the average person, it is still a once in a life time event.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

There are people that will charter flights to follow the path of totality for a long as possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

2 total, 2 partial.