You've seen maps of watersheds, here's a drive shed map. Imagine someone going to see the 2024 total solar eclipse. What's the shortest drive there? What are the odds of making the drive to see the eclipse? I calculated how many people will drive to the eclipse > greatamericaneclipse.com [OC]Submitted by MichaelZeiler t3_11wyjss in dataisbeautiful
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It’s still going to get dark.
In the middle of the day.
Quickly.
In the span of a couple minutes It goes from “shadows are weird shaped!” to “okay, weird light, like when it’s snowing but sun shines through a bit” to “huh, THIS ain’t right” to full-on “ohmygod…” except whispered, because it feels wrong to speak out loud in normal voice.
I drove three hours last time to park at the side of a dirt road running through a field. Totally worth it.
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