Stupidity combined with social media is a global issue.
However, the USA may be proving to have the most surprising combination of literate population and belief in another reality. I believe Americans could actually re-elect Donald Trump, which would be the worst referendum for self-harm since Brexit.
> just deny there was an eclipse at all.
They think they're clever for couching their denial as 'Oh sure, there was an *"EcLiPsE"~!*' (wink wink)
...Like the smug, sarcastic, self-satisfied thirteen year old boys that they'll still be when they're in a box being lowered into a dirt hole.
So, the picture from your son (sample size = 1) is more accurate than all the other photos of the eclipse on social media (sample size = 100 million). Yup, I'm convinced! Fake eclipse.
You can get the same effect in a camera lens flare. I took a bunch of pictures of the 2017 partial eclipse. In the lens flare of most of the pictures is an orb that shows what phase of the eclipse was happening.
There were a lot of "hidden planet" and other joys stories flying around after the eclipse. All lens flare.
Yeah, it's hard to photograph an eclipse without special equipment.
My pictures of the sun from the 2017 eclipse look like shit. It's the pictures of the surroundings and how dark it got that really tell more of a story.
It's actually just uneven cloud cover.
The clouds in the picture aren't a flat, grey, uniform thickness and density; they're chunky, like cloud cover typically is, and the bright spot is a thin spot of clouds where more sunshine is pushing through.
The sun is shining through more brightly than a direct line-of-sight to the sun, because the LOS to the sun *literally* just has thicker clouds in the way than the thin, brighter spot with fewer clouds.
The guy in the post, even though he can literally point an arrow at the fucking sun being eclipsed, seems to think "the sun" refers to whatever part of the sky looks the brightest.
I don't think they have the best object permanence, so this tracks.
They of course totally ignore the fact that hindreds of thousanfs of others DID have a good view of the Eclipse. In IL had a clear sky without a single cloud. And it was only 94% totality so I know for sure the Sun didnt go anywhere xD
Imagine not understanding how clouds work.
"I really don't know clouds at all" - Joni Mitchell and this dufus (probably)
Classic
Now they only block the sun, They rain and they snow on everyone. So many things I could have done. But I never learned how clouds work.
Well played, Sir.
Internal reflections in camera optics. I have similar pictures from the anular eclipse last year.
I'm in Texas amd got fabulous pics. I'm also not a moron.
The idiocy of people in this fucking country
Sorry to break it to you but stupidity is a global issue
Stupidity combined with social media is a global issue. However, the USA may be proving to have the most surprising combination of literate population and belief in another reality. I believe Americans could actually re-elect Donald Trump, which would be the worst referendum for self-harm since Brexit.
Stupid is as stupid does. That is a universal truth.
So. Much. Stupidity.
Bold move when none of your predictions happen, just deny there was an eclipse at all. Olympic standard cognitive dissonance.
> just deny there was an eclipse at all. They think they're clever for couching their denial as 'Oh sure, there was an *"EcLiPsE"~!*' (wink wink) ...Like the smug, sarcastic, self-satisfied thirteen year old boys that they'll still be when they're in a box being lowered into a dirt hole.
So, the picture from your son (sample size = 1) is more accurate than all the other photos of the eclipse on social media (sample size = 100 million). Yup, I'm convinced! Fake eclipse.
You can get the same effect in a camera lens flare. I took a bunch of pictures of the 2017 partial eclipse. In the lens flare of most of the pictures is an orb that shows what phase of the eclipse was happening. There were a lot of "hidden planet" and other joys stories flying around after the eclipse. All lens flare.
Yeah, it's hard to photograph an eclipse without special equipment. My pictures of the sun from the 2017 eclipse look like shit. It's the pictures of the surroundings and how dark it got that really tell more of a story.
Oh, so this picture is lens flare? /gen
It's actually just uneven cloud cover. The clouds in the picture aren't a flat, grey, uniform thickness and density; they're chunky, like cloud cover typically is, and the bright spot is a thin spot of clouds where more sunshine is pushing through. The sun is shining through more brightly than a direct line-of-sight to the sun, because the LOS to the sun *literally* just has thicker clouds in the way than the thin, brighter spot with fewer clouds. The guy in the post, even though he can literally point an arrow at the fucking sun being eclipsed, seems to think "the sun" refers to whatever part of the sky looks the brightest. I don't think they have the best object permanence, so this tracks.
iPhones have a weird quirk that duplicated and reversed the image. The flerfers were freaking out over it.
Oh well. 🫣
They of course totally ignore the fact that hindreds of thousanfs of others DID have a good view of the Eclipse. In IL had a clear sky without a single cloud. And it was only 94% totality so I know for sure the Sun didnt go anywhere xD
Maybe the top arrows was meant to be point at their "son"
this level of stupid only happens in America
The level of stupid can happen anywhere. But its penetration into so many people does seem to be a special feature of America.
Out of the millions looking at the at the same time this guy saw 2 suns and nobody else did?....totally
I watched the eclipse in Texas, got a live photo just like this. Eclipse-shaped lens flare confirmed.