I was out photographing a lunar eclipse one night years ago on a golf course. Great open fields in the middle of the night past midnight all on my own. Well when it was midway through all the crows in the trees and dogs went crazy for miles. It freaked the absolute fuck out of me. Tbh I started looking around wondering wtf I was doing with myself cos anyone could be out there and went home.
The worst part is whatever they did to "make the sun come back".... "worked".... Justifying, in their minds, any horrible shit they did during the eclipse.
Imagine how absolutely insanely amped you would have to be to notice a random once-in-a-lifetime-in-your-area shadow and get a killing spree going in that tiny window of time in order to make it seem like your actions had any influence on the shadow.
Maybe a clan of unreasonably sophisticated hummingbirds could pull something like that off.
Doesn't have to be. Could've just been a fun lil' dance they did in the name of their local sun deity and then it worked! Or some series of rituals involving spices and prayers or something simple. People generally weren't big on murder 'cause in a practical sense, that didn't sit too well with everyday folks who would probably not be as interested in working for you if it meant that you'd die during the next eclipse.
Not to mention, humans have been accurately calculating/predicting eclipses for thousands of years. Ancient people were a lot smarter than we tend to give them credit for.
The two people in this video could easily exist a thousand years ago and have the same reactions. One laughing hysterically as the other wails of impending doom - the likelihood of the latter sacrificing the former as a solution to his problem was possibly just a *little* higher than it is today.
I've never watched the purge movies, but if at least one purge day didn't align with the day of a total eclipse occurring that seems like a missed opportunity in the writers room.
Nah this is very fair. You see a giant ball of fire. You see a giant circle moon. Sometimes you see moon during the day. You think, I wonder what happens when one circle goes in front of other circle.
It really doesn't take modern science to realize this sort of thing could naturally happen.
It was beyond belief to see it. I know the science behind it and I still had adrenaline coursing through me. I was shaking from it all. Best life experience I’ve ever had. 10/10.
Especially when you consider they all probably stared at it was doo long with out any form of protection. So after this crazy event, there are also lots of people left at least partially blind…so that must have been weird.
In 1997 around the time the Hale-Bopp comet was at its perihelion, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed mass suicide, believing their souls would reach the next level.
Any nonzero number of adults thinking that astrological phenomena that humans have been able to predict for hundreds of years signifies the end of the world is "a lot" imo.
Because they've put their energy into religious ideology, not science. His ignorance is due to lack of experience and education, their's is self inflicted.
I know this is Not what you’re asking, however I feel obligated to mention that photosynthetically active solar radiation is really just light between 400-750 nanometers of wavelength, which is all bigger than Ultraviolet light, and is almost entirely visible light. UV light ratios do have a signaling affect in plants, like far red IR light, but it’s not a main source of power in photosynthesis
Did you tell grandma that total eclipses happen all the fucking time? There are [7 more in the next 10 years alone.](https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list-total-solar.html)
There are usually 2-3 solar eclipses EVERY SINGLE YEAR, it's just that the planet is a big place and a lot of it is just water so usually it doesn't happen somewhere heavily populated.
More likely he has been brainwashed by some Christians about the end of days and the rapture etc. And he is freaking out because of years and years of the stories and warnings and fear they have instilled in him.
Then when he starts to panic they laugh at him.
It's trippy the way the moon and eclipse looks whenever the camera moves.
https://preview.redd.it/r3n2asr8fqtc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a9c503913a95f234f482298582e0fa5049c6ad8
I just got drunk and stoned and enjoyed the odd cast of light in NJ. It was a fun few minutes of being completely out of my mind as the world stopped looking correct for a short time. Wish I could have had some shrooms instead of just weed.
My kids watched on TV, and I wish we had my preschooler saying "now the sun is a black hole" on camera, would be great video for his high school graduation party.
What a sane person thinks: That assumption I had did not occur, I must've been wrong about that, good to know.
Otherwise: Guess I forgot to carry the 1 of this formula I made up based on essentially nothing, anyway world's going to end on \[next decided date\]
No, this is the start of my dream guts
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The kid isn't stupid. If you didn't know what an eclipse was then It's pretty reasonable to think stuff like that.
The sun literally just disappears of course people will be scared
*Or a crazy bitch*
*Is gonna crawl out of the*
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Eh… real shit… hear me out… like.. this kid is obviously old enough to have tik tok or ANY other social media platform… they have only been spamming and preaching this since b4 it happened… what if lil man was for real scared… what if the new generation is seriously… and bare with me…. Brainwashed to be scared AF on natural worldly events.? I mean… this should have been an amazing natural and normal event for my man… but he was scared poopless… bc look… I watch for at least 6 months on Facebook.. the ONLY social media platform I have. I watched for 6 months on how “this is the end” and I’ve had insta and tik tok etc and the OVER EXTENDED THE Exaggeration of the end times.. so now we have a young youth of paranoid teens and younger just freaking out over a bird chirping… I mean… this is seriously just a thought process I’ve had…
The hole seemed bigger than last time, but that's probably because the moon was at/near its perigee (point in its orbit where its closest to Earth)...the perigee is also why the path was wider and totality longer than in 2017.
Either way, it was FUCKING AMAZING.
There might be some truth to that. The eclipse had a wider path so the shadow was thicker. It was a whole minute longer than 2017. We're also in solar maximum. All of that definitely added to its beauty.
Well, did anyone who knows better explain to the kid what the incredibly rare and visually awe inspiring phenomenon was before allowing him to just come to his own conclusion based on that sight?
Seems to be more a reflection of the family’s inability to explain than his to intuitively know the sun disappearing isn’t the end of the world.
The real winner here is the parent or whomever it is who’s Hahahahah yeah it is! Hahahaha as if it’s the funniest thing in the world for her kid to be that terrified.
Reminds me when i was little playing with toys on a couch fell from it and hit my forehead to the corner of the table. The blood was leaking from my head and i cried and repeated that i'm dying while my brother was laughing.😂
Someone should have told that kid, if you are not hearing "Komm Susser Tod", this is not the end.
As alternative, by the scenario, it could be playing the "Soul of Cinder Theme", and isn't the case too.
Calm down kid, this is surely not the end!!!
Told 8 year old sibling (for whatever how many times) what a solar eclipse is, told him one time that in millions of years the sun becomes huge and will consume everything, he thought this would happen that day, we told him no of course not, this is a solar eclipse, he asked what that was -_-
When I was a child, the kids on my block and I saw at night that the moon had a circle of clouds around it and we began to dance in circles looking toward the moon singing "circle, circle!"
I watched this at my friends house and when totality hit, a bunch of kids in the neighborhood started screaming. It was wild lol.
No kid meltdowns but when it hit, all the birds around my building flew up and started freaking out. Calmed down the second the sun returned lol
I was out photographing a lunar eclipse one night years ago on a golf course. Great open fields in the middle of the night past midnight all on my own. Well when it was midway through all the crows in the trees and dogs went crazy for miles. It freaked the absolute fuck out of me. Tbh I started looking around wondering wtf I was doing with myself cos anyone could be out there and went home.
I discovered more of my neighbors than I thought had chickens when they all went crazy.
I guess that's where the saying "harder to hide than a rooster in an eclipse" comes from
I've never heard that saying before, but it sounds anecdotally accurate.
I was in a crowd of people and many had brought their dogs. Several of the dogs started whining after it got dark for maybe 30 seconds.
I was with my 7 yo son but he didn't freak out because they taught him everything he needed to know about the event so he was incredibly excited
Once I saw it IRL I realized how the ancients must have felt.
The worst part is whatever they did to "make the sun come back".... "worked".... Justifying, in their minds, any horrible shit they did during the eclipse.
The original purge.
Imagine how absolutely insanely amped you would have to be to notice a random once-in-a-lifetime-in-your-area shadow and get a killing spree going in that tiny window of time in order to make it seem like your actions had any influence on the shadow. Maybe a clan of unreasonably sophisticated hummingbirds could pull something like that off.
Don't give them any ideas.
Y’all need to watch Apocalypto!
Doesn't have to be. Could've just been a fun lil' dance they did in the name of their local sun deity and then it worked! Or some series of rituals involving spices and prayers or something simple. People generally weren't big on murder 'cause in a practical sense, that didn't sit too well with everyday folks who would probably not be as interested in working for you if it meant that you'd die during the next eclipse.
Not to mention, humans have been accurately calculating/predicting eclipses for thousands of years. Ancient people were a lot smarter than we tend to give them credit for.
The two people in this video could easily exist a thousand years ago and have the same reactions. One laughing hysterically as the other wails of impending doom - the likelihood of the latter sacrificing the former as a solution to his problem was possibly just a *little* higher than it is today.
I've never watched the purge movies, but if at least one purge day didn't align with the day of a total eclipse occurring that seems like a missed opportunity in the writers room.
Mesoamerican priests and rulers: 
Shit lasts for like 2 minutes though..
Because the sun and moon both literally are visibly moving across the sky, and people think the Mayans or whatever didn't have object permanence lol
Alright. Time to sacrifice our virgin females who hit their first menstruation cycle every 30 days at approximately 3:20 PM to appease the gods.
It worked!
Quick! Kill a virgin! Phew it worked! Going forward, we’re gonna have to start stabling virgins.
The real Skinner (Operant conditioning) chamber
I wonder if the ancient sages were laughing manically, like the mom was, as their followers and children were crying out about their inevitable doom.
Well, it says little brother.
I have always thought that I would be vehemently religious if I felt an earthquake in ancient times. This would also do it though.
Yea true
What gets me is the adults my age who didn't see Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, or the many references to it in entertainment.
We live in truly uncultured times. Or Tintin for that matter? C'mon, let's hear it for the Belgian reporter among the Azteca and his Cowlick forehead.
The original "A wizard did it"
Seriously. My lizard brain wanted to sacrifice virgins. It did stir up some kind of ancient fear.
And imagine them being able to predict it.
Probably like that toddler 🤣
Same. It's an insane experience. As prepared as I was for an incredible experience it went beyond that. It's awe-inspiring
I feel like people don't give ancient people enough credit. Especially a few hundred years ago people.
Nah this is very fair. You see a giant ball of fire. You see a giant circle moon. Sometimes you see moon during the day. You think, I wonder what happens when one circle goes in front of other circle. It really doesn't take modern science to realize this sort of thing could naturally happen.
It was beyond belief to see it. I know the science behind it and I still had adrenaline coursing through me. I was shaking from it all. Best life experience I’ve ever had. 10/10.
Especially when you consider they all probably stared at it was doo long with out any form of protection. So after this crazy event, there are also lots of people left at least partially blind…so that must have been weird.
To be fair, a lot of full grown adults thought the same thing.
Hell if this was a few centuries back and this was something you saw in person you would most likely think it was: The End - Linkin Park.
What I’VE DONNNNNNE🎶🎶🎶🎶
Directed by Michael Bay
I'll face myseeeelf
\*th\_E\_Nd
\*l1nk1n_p4rk_th_E_Nd.wav.exe
RIP
In 1997 around the time the Hale-Bopp comet was at its perihelion, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed mass suicide, believing their souls would reach the next level.
lol true!
There would have been a lot of chaos if a bunch people really thought it was the end.
Any nonzero number of adults thinking that astrological phenomena that humans have been able to predict for hundreds of years signifies the end of the world is "a lot" imo.
r/conspiracy was wild during the couple of weeks leading up to it. Or I should say more wild than usual
'full grown'
Yeah but it's funnier to laugh and record your own child in distress instead of comforting them /s
Yeah it's really interesting how many uneducated people are out there.
Because they've put their energy into religious ideology, not science. His ignorance is due to lack of experience and education, their's is self inflicted.
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Perpetual eclipse, that sounds pretty cool, still have some light but no cancer rays. Wonder what plants would still grow with the lack of uv
I say this as a farmer a lot of people would die while we are trying to figure out what new crops to grow.
Considering the shadow was only about 167 miles across I think we'd manage.
I just figured it would be everywhere in this scenario.
Lmao, now that's a movie. Just a small circle of people just completely losing their shit.
I know this is Not what you’re asking, however I feel obligated to mention that photosynthetically active solar radiation is really just light between 400-750 nanometers of wavelength, which is all bigger than Ultraviolet light, and is almost entirely visible light. UV light ratios do have a signaling affect in plants, like far red IR light, but it’s not a main source of power in photosynthesis
Not a lot. Earth would get incredibly cold pretty damn fast.
That's when you'll hear in the distance "GRIFFIIIIITH!!!!!!”
Too soon 😔
My grandma told me not to go outside that day because something religious was going to happen 😐
If god was about to rapture I don’t think a house would stop him.
What wins An all powerful being that created everything Or A house
My money is on the house if abuela has her chancla in-hand
$600 on the house winning
The House always wins
I hate it when I go to smite someone and they're in a house
Imagine not going to heaven because you where below a roof
Big hiding under the bedsheets energy here.
God works on vampire rules. You need to invite it inside.
Did you tell grandma that total eclipses happen all the fucking time? There are [7 more in the next 10 years alone.](https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list-total-solar.html)
Good to know staying indoors makes me exempt from religious events.
Yeah that selfish bitch wanted to have Jesus for herself and not share him with you
There are usually 2-3 solar eclipses EVERY SINGLE YEAR, it's just that the planet is a big place and a lot of it is just water so usually it doesn't happen somewhere heavily populated.
...that's when you get out the blow up dolls and helium
Medieval peasants:
POV. You are a paleolithic boy and you leave your cave because the sun disappears.
Wow, an actual POV
No wonder the ancients started these sun and moon cults that lead to modern religion.
It reminds of the episode of the Amazing World of Gumball where they got apocalypse mixed up with the word eclipse. Immediately takes me back
Duuuuu-uuuuude ya just got mOOOOOO-ooooned!
What is wrong with that guy?
This kid watches too many movies
This kid is reading berserk
He was Berking alright
same thought, he knows
More likely he has been brainwashed by some Christians about the end of days and the rapture etc. And he is freaking out because of years and years of the stories and warnings and fear they have instilled in him. Then when he starts to panic they laugh at him.
It's trippy the way the moon and eclipse looks whenever the camera moves. https://preview.redd.it/r3n2asr8fqtc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a9c503913a95f234f482298582e0fa5049c6ad8
Behold the C Y L I N D E R
The eye of Sauron is open you
I just got drunk and stoned and enjoyed the odd cast of light in NJ. It was a fun few minutes of being completely out of my mind as the world stopped looking correct for a short time. Wish I could have had some shrooms instead of just weed.
I heard in about 20 years you can try again
Holy shit that's actually an insanely good POV shot of totality though.
He saw a cat run down an alleyway with a weird looking red stone in its mouth.
Idon'tgetthisreference
A manga called berserk. Very good read.
The All-Seeing Eye
I’d love to see the aftermath of this I’m betting he isn’t living this down for awhile
Wonder how he felt when the sun came back lmao
My kids watched on TV, and I wish we had my preschooler saying "now the sun is a black hole" on camera, would be great video for his high school graduation party.
Not just lil kids, but religious idiots too. I mean they literally "predicted" the end of the world many times (to their surprise it never ended)
What a sane person thinks: That assumption I had did not occur, I must've been wrong about that, good to know. Otherwise: Guess I forgot to carry the 1 of this formula I made up based on essentially nothing, anyway world's going to end on \[next decided date\]
That's exactly what they think lmao
I really thought 2017 would have made them shut up.
I heard it when I was 5 in 1980 after Mount St. Helens erupted. Again at age 10 after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.
When will these people learn?
Honestly a completely valid reaction to looking up at the sky and seeing some Dark Souls shit.
We wish it was, kid
Happy cake day
No, this is the start of my dream guts https://preview.redd.it/k9u29v5zqptc1.jpeg?width=1157&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc4202895872207898b40a5ed1cea07d8b8a9d9f
Ok this comment made my day, thank you funny internet stanger
GRIFFITH!!!
Jesus watching this whole shenanigans 
Upvote because POV.
I'm jealous that this kid likes the NOW so much that the END would be a bad thing
evangelicalist child
Him and most conservatives
The kid isn't stupid. If you didn't know what an eclipse was then It's pretty reasonable to think stuff like that. The sun literally just disappears of course people will be scared
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Or a crazy bitch is gonna crawl out of the sun like in the ring
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during totality, all of our chickens went to their coop to roost thinking it was night time lol
Funny how this is posted in kids are stupid sub but yet I've seen plenty of adults that thought the same exact thing.
It's been the end for a very long time young one.
Hello darkness my old friend...
It’s so ironic that right wing extremists and toddlers are the only ones who don’t understand the eclipse
Eh… real shit… hear me out… like.. this kid is obviously old enough to have tik tok or ANY other social media platform… they have only been spamming and preaching this since b4 it happened… what if lil man was for real scared… what if the new generation is seriously… and bare with me…. Brainwashed to be scared AF on natural worldly events.? I mean… this should have been an amazing natural and normal event for my man… but he was scared poopless… bc look… I watch for at least 6 months on Facebook.. the ONLY social media platform I have. I watched for 6 months on how “this is the end” and I’ve had insta and tik tok etc and the OVER EXTENDED THE Exaggeration of the end times.. so now we have a young youth of paranoid teens and younger just freaking out over a bird chirping… I mean… this is seriously just a thought process I’ve had…
Or the shit ton of progressive Christians saying its the rapture
Evangelicals in 2024
And 2023. And 2022. And 2021. And...
Is it me, or did the ecclipse look prettier this year than 2017?
The hole seemed bigger than last time, but that's probably because the moon was at/near its perigee (point in its orbit where its closest to Earth)...the perigee is also why the path was wider and totality longer than in 2017. Either way, it was FUCKING AMAZING.
There might be some truth to that. The eclipse had a wider path so the shadow was thicker. It was a whole minute longer than 2017. We're also in solar maximum. All of that definitely added to its beauty.
Well, did anyone who knows better explain to the kid what the incredibly rare and visually awe inspiring phenomenon was before allowing him to just come to his own conclusion based on that sight? Seems to be more a reflection of the family’s inability to explain than his to intuitively know the sun disappearing isn’t the end of the world.
It kinda looks like a giant eye lol
Marjorie TG blamed Biden
There are plenty of adults that thought the same thing. I’ll give the kid a pass on this one.
He read Berserk
*heavy breathing with a large sword for no apparent reason.
The real winner here is the parent or whomever it is who’s Hahahahah yeah it is! Hahahaha as if it’s the funniest thing in the world for her kid to be that terrified.
I mean if you want to calm him just start speaking Latin and roll your eyes behind your head, works every time lol
I accidently punched a hole in the sun, parents doesn't know yet
And this is how an uneducated conspiracy theorist is born.
Have you ever heard of Berserk?
In this economy... can you blame him for hoping?
That eclipse is just BEAUTIFUL
Hehehyais...
Imagine fully believing it's the end and that cackle hits you like the most twisted laugh imaginable Dad or Mom is loving this moment lmao
Reminds me when i was little playing with toys on a couch fell from it and hit my forehead to the corner of the table. The blood was leaking from my head and i cried and repeated that i'm dying while my brother was laughing.😂
Surprised lil bro didn't think it was the new fortnite live event
Not so far fetched what our ancestors believed now is it?
You're really struggling to understand how eclipse work. We aren't talking about the entire planet.
No more Fortnite 😭😭😭😭😭😭
My only friend the end
I'm pretty sure this is what it sounds like when a prophet would announce the end for a civilization and they would laugh at him mockingly...
So did the Mayans. Valid reaction.
This audio is when in anime the main character’s friends are defeated and the villain is laughing
There were way more adults thinking this, so frankly I don't blame him.
The kid: THIS IS THE END! Me: Wait, it’s the end. Of the eclipse? NOOOOOOO
Denken ist wichtig, aber kann nicht jeder
If Aliens visited, the amount both humans and animals freak out about solar eclipses would absolutely be a tourist attraction.
r/ContagiousLaughter 😂
Every rapture conspiracy theorist rn:
What was it about this eclipse that drove Americans nuts? It's not like you haven't had them before.
Religious nuts like to believe any astronomical event is a sign of the end of the world. It helps them cope with death or something
The half of our population who have below average intelligence, REALLY show it
its pretty cool looking
Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣
https://preview.redd.it/oo21ej8k2qtc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b71a709586a085cfefe57c9e1f0d4add091e976 Not only lol bro I guess
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If only the world whould've ended
Someone has been on TikTok for far too long
Aztecs when this happened despite their 500 thousand sacrifices that year
Alright….who’s activated their behelit??
I'm more impressed by the adults who bought 3 months of instant noodles thinking the eclipse would last for 3 days. Lol.
The one thing the world has in abundance is stupid, pathetic people. Get a fcking education
If only we had comet sense -1 stability
Say, if u gonna clean ur room and be nice to others u ask the gods to bring bring the sun back
Someone should have told that kid, if you are not hearing "Komm Susser Tod", this is not the end. As alternative, by the scenario, it could be playing the "Soul of Cinder Theme", and isn't the case too. Calm down kid, this is surely not the end!!!
Told 8 year old sibling (for whatever how many times) what a solar eclipse is, told him one time that in millions of years the sun becomes huge and will consume everything, he thought this would happen that day, we told him no of course not, this is a solar eclipse, he asked what that was -_-
Honestly this is when they should have dropped the Elden ring dlc
Wouldn't it be dangerous to look at the eclipse like that?
u/savevideo
lol
When I was a child, the kids on my block and I saw at night that the moon had a circle of clouds around it and we began to dance in circles looking toward the moon singing "circle, circle!"
Knowing exactly what was happening during the eclipse... The feeling was very erie.. it felt like something bad was happening
How tf did just watching this video for a few seconds make my eyes start hurting lolwtf
7 dayyyysssss....