Eclipse

A total solar eclipse is going to be visible today in part of the northern hemisphere! See this news for details. Unfortunately this CNN news didn't tell me when. DON'T look at the sun directly. It is going to hurt your eyes. Don't look even if you have sunglasses. I've heard the best method is use reflection from water, or ink.

Here is an interesting quote.

Just to say how special it is, in the whole universe we might be among the few beings that have the chance of seeing something like that," said Michael Khan,
a mission analyst at the European Space Agency. "The fact that we have a moon and that the moon passes in front of
our sun, and that the apparent size of our moon is approximately equal to the apparent size of the sun -- all these factors combine to create the solar eclipse phenomenon."

Hmm, we are among the few beings... Do we even know of other beings?

Amazing that the sun and the moon (yin and yang) are approximately equal in apparent size. Won't be as fun if the moon is merely a dot on the sun isn't it?
Of course today we know the sun is actually gosh much much bigger than the earth and even much much more bigger than the moon.
Moonlight are actually reflected sun light! So the balance theory of yin and yang is out of whack! (Other yin yang balances are: male/female, positive/negative charge, north/south magnet, etc. of course: good/evil!)

Eclipse used to be omen of disaster! People dance around to try to scare away the evil takeover. Of course each time they are successful.

Some doomsday sayers in China say "gosh I am worried about the olympics". Please... no separatists or terrorists attack. It is a sports event.
Doomsday sayers please find other careers.

BTW, why does that omnipresent Java IDE called Eclipse?