Two Reasons Why This Eclipse is So Dangerous
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yeah this is propably the reason why i need glasses
honestly the curls look good on you
Speaking as someone who hot eclipse burns in the 90's I can tell you it affects you for life. To this day I still have a small white spot in the middle of my vision. I have adapted but when I am tired it is most visible.
@@misanthropicsophist i agree
"You might be a very good driver but the people around you aren't" is fantastic driving advice. Just in general.
My uncle would say, "when you drive your car, always keep in mind that you are permanently surrounded by 8 enemies who will crash into you if given the opportunity."
Been driving for 21 years by now, and of the only three accidents my car "was involved in", I was not in the car for two of them, and my vehicle was immobilized during the third. Great rule to follow while driving.
I was afraid to learn to drive, believing most other drivers to be untrustworthy. One week after getting my license, my car was totalled while I waited to make a left turn by another 18 yo (and then we ended up side by side in the emergency room-neither seriously injured, thankfully). My parents were anxious that I'd never drive again. But, I needed to drive to live the kind of life I wanted. I think I'm still more safety conscious than most in a car.
@@macherie1234 That's a rough start. Good for you that you recovered and managed to get over it and keep going. Cheers.
That's why I always say you gotta drive for others.
Driving is the craziest & most dangerous thing any of us do. Driving around in a flimsy machine made of metal & glass filled with flammable liquid is nuts.
I'll just add "Buckle Up." As a friend who's a paramedic says, "I've never unbuckled a dead person who wouldn't have died anyway, but I've seen plenty of dead people who'd have lived if they wore their seatbelt."
That's dark. Hope your friend's doing well. They've taken on one helluva valuable and difficult career
I have a friend who is reluctant to wear a seatbelt because they have another friend who survived a car accident by being ejected from the vehicle. The vehicle they were in immediately caught fire and they would have burned to death before they could get out of the car. I've tried to explain to them how unlikely it is to survive being ejected from an automobile and how unlikely it is for cars to immediately burst into flame from an accident.
Worst part is it's someone who knows a lot about cars.
Very succinct way to put that. Give your paramedic friend my appreciation 👍🏻
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Disclaimer: wear your goddamn seatbelt. This story is a wild exception, not your excuse to not be safe behind the wheel.
I have a cousin who only survived a car crash because they weren't wearing a seatbelt. They passed out at the wheel and were thrown through the windshield when the car collided with the guardrail, and then the car fell into a ravine. It rolled over 14 times and looked like a beer can after. They survived with serious injuries to their skin and a few broken bones, but had they not been thrown from the vehicle, I doubt they would've survived.
ALSO please wear your seat belt. I thought it would be obvious by now but I've discovered that even my coworker who broke her neck in a car accident when she was a kid doesn't actually wear her seatbelt, even though she was wearing it and it saved her life in her accident.
Seat belts save lives. Wear them.
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Wow. Car accident must've made her stupid.
Yeah, I don't understand why people don't follow basic, and extremely easy to enact, steps for their safety. A seatbelt is so easy to wear. It isn't like using Linux instead of Windows, where you have to learn how to use a different operating system and constantly solve problems. You just click it in. It doesn't get much easier than that.
As a locksmith and security consultant THANK YOU for explaining "actual risk". SOOO many people focus on the "one in a million what-if" scenario that they don't even consider, and will actually sometimes resist taking precautions against the most likely scenarios.
I only had to lock my keys inside the car 11 times before I learned that lesson
Eclipses aren't normal. I never eclipse.
i actually eclipse every night due to how close i am to my parent planet
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I’m eclipsing rn
😂
I haven't eclipsed for a long time, I prefer IntelliJ.
"going to mars is dangerous, but it's not a public health risk because there's not a lot of people going" - that's an amazing analogy
Bringing mars to us would be a public health risk 😂
I mean that's..... that's... obvious.... That's an extremely obvious thing
... That's an amazing analogy to you? You must be a super impressionable person
0 mars related fatalities this year. Wow it's so safe lol
@@brunolimaj7129 I don't think you understand the purpose of analogies.
@@mkuehter12 the dude in the video said the most obvious thing in the entire history and my guy here saying things like "awesome analogy", why such meat riding?
Vermonter here. We're expecting 160,000 visitors for the eclipse, and we just got hit with a snow storm. It'll be interesting to see how the visitors handle mud season
One million scheduled for Niagara falls. The chaos will be magnificent.
I live near Niagara in Canada and people are freaking about tourists
Down in Arkansas I've read we are expecting up to 1.5 million. Basically half our state pop coming to visit. I'm not leaving my house after today
Poorly, I imagine.
@@MisterCynic18 the region has already declared a state of emergency to try to manage the chaos from all the visitors
I live in Ontario and Niagara Falls has proactively declared a state of emergency for the eclipse. The most tourists they've had in a day is 150,000 and for the eclipse they are expecting over a MILLION!
Stay safe everyone! Solar eclipses are cool, but they're not worth compromising your safety
A state of emergency. Wow 🙄😒... Ontario has got to be full of some of the most watered down, weakest people on earth. That's mindblowing 🤯 I mean..Even when the federal government there in Ottawa declared the emergencies act over a bunch of truck drivers that was nonsensical enough 🤣... Declaring of emergencies is, or should only be, for things like fire, flood, famine and war.
"The Dark Sun robs anyone who looks upon it of sight itself" has Lovecraft energy.
I thought you wrote Sun Snobs at first. Dark Sun Snobs.
Definitely D&D or spiritual fantasy material
oddly, this is the energy i want to know more of
It'd be messed up if the Sun was real
(/joking)
Lovecraft would have seen a total eclipse in 1925
I really appreciate this video. As someone who has family traveling, a lot of car trauma, and the experience of witnessing a fatal accident only months ago, CARS ARE DANGEROUS. All reminders are good reminders.
"and your brain is wrong" I felt that on a personal level
That was like, 95% of therapy for me. Distorted thinking, gaslighting myself (trained by the best gaslighter I know!), etc. It took years to untangle that heap, but I'm better for it.
My brain is wrong all the time. I keep arguing with it over tons of things.
Facts. I don’t even judge her for it. I just talk some sense into her 😂 It is really interesting how a lot of the “mistakes” the brain makes it actually it trying really hard to help us
Me cause I looked at the eclipse when it was like that: 😳
@@asia1174 Yea, my eyes weren't happy about that today. Luckily, I'm probably fine (thanks clouds!)
Hank, I don't text and drive, but if I did, I'd stop just out of the sheer guilt I'd feel from you saying "I see you!" and knowing you'd be disappointed in me.
Gotta start asking myself "Am I living my life in a way that would make Hank do a happy dance if he met me irl?" If not, I need to step it up!
Hank, thank you for the validation regarding "I may be a perfectly adequate driver, but the people AROUND ME may not be" and that it IS my responsibility to myself, my passengers, and the people I drive around to be aware of dangerous driving behaviors and remain both aware enough and skilled enough to not contribute to that danger through my own driving. I choose not to drive and not to hold a valid driver's license because I have trauma related disorders which prevent me from being both aware enough and skilled enough in situations where other drivers behave dangerously. I make this choice for both my own safety and the safety of the public, and I encourage others to assess their own challenges to make safer choices as well.
The amount of people that look at their phone while driving is insane. YOU'RE NOT SO DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE ELSE THAT YOU WON'T BE DISTRACTED AND HIT A CHILD!!
Pedestrian deaths in the US are going up due to distracted driving and car bloat.
No, you can't look at it for just one second and it be ok.
Yes, one second is all it takes for someone to run into the road and be hit by you, for someone's car to slam into you, or for you slam into their car.
Put your phone in the middle console or the glovebox and just drive! If you need it for navigation, turn the volume all the way up and put it facedown somewhere.
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Yeah, I mean sometimes I tunnel vision a little bit, and even that is bad. I barely want to talk when I'm driving tbh.
The bigger issue is infrastructure. People are stupid and easily distracted everywhere around the world, it's not a uniquely American thing. But fatal car accidents are far, far more common in the US than in Europe.
People need to be in their car more, both in terms of distance but also because there just aren't any alternatives. This means people drive when they don't want to or are unable to do so safely where elsewhere they'd be on a train or a bus. You can't kill anyone by being drunk or on your phone when you're sitting in a train.
@@theoneandonlyAeth gotta love the **freedom** of being quite literally forced to pay hundreds, to thousands, to tens of thousands of dollars a month-year to operate a big ass deadly machine that's helping to terraform our planet into venus, just to be able to participate in society
Where the hell did this come from
NH resident here - a lot of our schools are going to be closed Monday even though the eclipse isn't happening until after school hours solely because of a concern for school busses not being able to safely get kids home due to the expected influx of people. We also currently have over half of our state without power because of a blizzard that lasted for about a day and a half (just ended early this morning) that took down a lot of trees and power lines, roads are blocked in many towns. I am very stressed about how this is going to go. 😬
I'm so glad to have a Hank to talk us through the eclipse, rather than a Nostradamus
oh my god youre that worm from that show i saw twice when i was a toddler and havent seen since
@@FossilF it's me! Richard Scarry is just as good as a toddler or adult, would recommend
I like seeing the shadows/darkness on the ground during eclipses. It's cool enough to see that during the day. You don't have to stare at the sun to appreciate how cool it is.
To paraphrase Turtles All The Way Down: even if it is cloudy, it is still happening.
What is turtles all the way down? I need reading material when im out on deployment
A John Green book@@IDFpartyboi972
@IDFpartyboi972 I don't know if you're joking, but if you aren't it's John's second to most recent book. It's very good
I really need to read this book
@@ravyntaylor6982 it is really good
He’s right. I had a staring contest with the sun as a kid. I genuinely thought I could do it. Now I have optic neuritis, myopia, astigmatism, and double vision.
I also did a lot of other stupid things in the name of science. If a bunch of people asked to hear my stupid moments, I could tell each person one that no one else in the room has heard yet.
Defensive driving is perennial good advice. Also, please check for cyclists and pedestrians, and use your turn signals whenever you make a right turn even if you "don't see anyone" there. That may be because YOU didn't see them, not because the road was empty.
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While driving, assume that everyone around you will do the stupidest thing they can. It may be cynical, but better cynical than dead.
Also, how weird is it that we are willing to entrust our lives to hundreds (or even thousands) of total strangers on a daily basis?
"use your turn signals whenever you make a right turn even if you don't see anyone there."
Use your turn signals whenever you make a turn, even if you know for a fact that you are in a completely empty parking lot at 3 AM. Because remember to do it even when it doesn't matter will ensure you do it when it does matter.
Be as communicative and predictable as possible on the road. Use your turn signal for *every* turn. Right turns, left turns, turn only lanes, turning into a parking lot or driveway, merging (even if you're merging because your lanes ends and you assume the drivers in the other lane must know what your lane is going to do), you lose nothing by signaling your intentions unnecessarily.
To anyone visiting Indiana, as a Hoosier I MUST WARN YOU: we have horrible pot holes all over our main interstates like 70, 65, and 465. The streets themselves are also covered in potholes. They will pop your tires and wreck the alignment of your tires if you're not careful. If you do not have AAA or another interstate towing insurance please drive extra safe.
I'm from Michigan originally. I understand your road pain deeply in my soul
stars aligned so that tires may not
The population density in the path of this eclipse is insane. Its going through tons of major cities and metro areas. Im glad i took the day off from work and will be able to see it from my back yard.
I didn't even take the day off but lucked into an off day. Luckily I live right around the path so all I gotta do is step outside
Except much of it will have cloudy weather. They won’t be seeing an eclipse.
Where i live will get 94%, or possibly clouds.
The city of austin and travis county have preemptively declared a disaster for the eclipse day in order to empower first responders to take more action faster if needed, residents have been advised to stay home and school has been cancelled for many children. the emergency declaration also limits gatherings at private properties to
I really wish that UT cancelled classes and had staff stay home too.
Maybe it's power of suggestion, but traffic already seemed worse today then normal and IYKYK it's crazy most of the time.
I live directly on where the “total eclipse” is gonna happen. Our city is basically having us prepare for an apocalyptic event due to the amount of people that are going to be there (keep in mind we are a very small suburb and supporting all of the eclipse watchers is going to be very difficult). I’m just glad I don’t have to go anywhere and can just walk out into my backyard to watch it!
The Niagara region declared a state of emergency last week to give themselves extra powers to help manage the expected influx of visitors for the eclipse.
@@nicolebacon2747 Texas and a few other states in the path of totality have declared emergencies as well (mostly to cancel school and keep the roads as clear as they can for all of the visitors.)
I think that they hype claiming all the people who will visit is really overblown. I also live on the path, but no, zillions of people are not going to visit my podunk town. And the ones who do, are going to stay for 5 minutes and turn around and drive back home.
@@culwin Depends on exactly where you live. I saw the 2017 eclipse in Carbondale Illinois (small town!) and we were in stop-and-go traffic for hours on the way out. I expect every single town in the path of totality in the Northeast to be overrun with visitors, many of whom will stay in hotels, eat at restaurants, fill up at gas stations, and check out local shops and attractions.
@@culwin Um, my son went to a "podunk" town for the 2017 eclipse and the normally 4 hr drive home took about 16 hours. They were stuck in traffic the entire way. Don't under estimate how many will travel to see this.
Yes, even if it's cloudy, the total eclipse will still be an amazing experience. 😊 I still the remember the 1999 total eclipse here in the UK; I was in Devon at the time, close enough to the totality zone to fully experience it but unfortunately with a lot more cloud cover than neighbouring Cornwall, where the skies were much clearer. Still an unforgettable experience though. It's not just being able to watch the eerie, grey darkness sweep across from one side of the sky to the other in a huge, wide band within the space of a few minutes - it's the rush of wind at the start, then the total lack of birdsong and other 'environment sounds' as the darkness sweeps in, and then the rush of wind and resuming of sound as the darkness sweeps past and away over the horizon again. It's the way the temperature suddenly drops with the darkness, then rises again as it passes. Even the darkness is weird; it's not like night-time darkness, but more like a lid has been put on the sky, as you can still see pale, misty light all around the horizon at ground level, even while the darkness sits directly above you. You'll clearly see the 'edge' of the darkness racing towards you first, and then watch it race into the distance on the other side once it's passed over your head.
And that's just if the actual eclipse is obscured by cloud cover. Imagine how much more magical it'll be if you get a full (but PROTECTED, people!) view of the sun being blocked out too!
Situational Awareness is good advice at *all* times. Reduce your overall risk anytime; Pay Effing Attention
A friend of mine used to carpool on Rt 128 in Boston. Her carpool had a rule: the driver does not look at the commotion or accident that is slowing the road down. It is the job of the passengers to give and info the driver wants and explain in detail. The driver ONLY drives.
We live less than 5 minutes from a MAJOR interstate and in the totality path! Even though we are a small town...we are going to sequester until Tuesday!! Keep your heads People!
Where I am, a nearby tourist town preemptively declared a state of emergency. Schools are cancelled because they would be getting out around the time of the eclipse and teachers wouldn't be able to stop kids from looking at it.
That's smart. I wonder how many other schools are going to close 🤔
Last time there was an eclipse I was working at a summer camp and we basically had to keep the kids inside all day with all the windows blacked out since there were no blinds
We are not in the line of totality and our schools are closed. I will e traveling 2 hrs to my aunt and uncle's, who live less than half a mile from the center of the line of totality. This is a town of less than 400 people. I'm going up on eclipse day, then stay the night and hike with my uncle the next day at a nearby state park. My cousin's are getting in town this weekend and driving back right after.
All the schools in northeast Ohio, at least, are closed @@Calvero52
I'm grateful to finally properly understand why an eclipse can damage your eyes. I remember we had an eclipse of about 98% two days before I turned four and I refused to leave the house and look because I was absolutely convinced I would go blind and no one could convince me otherwise so I just sat inside with my eyes covered
Smart kid. Your eyes are better for it, and you didn't miss anything.
Aww that's kinda cute, sad that you couldn't be consoled but I'm glad young you took your health seriously.
@@arowace498 I regret not going to look now but at the same time who knows how much of it I would have remembered, I don't have many memories from that age
Dude I literally did the exact same thing during the 2017 eclipse when I was around 10 cause I was NOT going to take any chances. I stayed in the basement a few hours after the eclipse had passed just to be extra safe lol 🙃
@@lunarbat6009 Glad to hear I'm not alone haha. Did you get to watch this one?
My town will have nearly 4 minutes of totality. The schools are on e-learning, the office i work at will be closed, non essential dr apts aren't being scheduled... pretty much as soon as it was known the eclipse would be here, our community formed an eclipse coalition to oversee and coordinate things. Nearby parking lots have yard signs to deter non customer parking. Our city population of 20k & they estimated a possible 200k-500k visitors (!)
The newspaper has advised everyone to get their groceries and gas in advance and stay off the roads on monday. Yet theres a crap ton of public events for the viewing 🤷♂️
Good luck
I’ll be using that traffic fatalities per hour stat in my daily life for sure.
I did the calculation a while ago for my local area and I estimated at least 1 person dies a day driving. And a lot more injured including me who got hit by someone who ran a red light.
Yay even more reason for me to be paranoid while doing things on a day to day basis
@@monicarenee7949imagine being a Statician for something like public health. You’d know the likelihood you could die/get injured/some disease at at any time.
Mom of 5 reminding everyone that while you may be a good and attentive driver, you should ever count on the other drivers to be the same.
1:34 I'm appreciating all these *emphatic* edits
“THE ☀️ IS VERY 💪“
"The sun is a deadly laser~~"
they’re annoying
Also when the eclipse begins, your eyes will still be adjusted to the bright daylight and it will seem darker than it actually is, feeling safer. When the totality happens, your pupils dilate and when the sun begins to peek back out, your eyes are letting a lot more light in.
I think you'll find there's actually three parts to any danger. There's the risk, the number of people exposed to the risk - and also the never-ending horrors, Hank.
Deaths per hour is CRAZY
This is America
Not really. 7 deaths per hour is like one crash every 30 minutes, not that crazy.
@@BassLiberators Now consider that about 58 times more people are injured than killed in car crashes.
@@BassLiberators If it were one crash every 30 minutes, it'd be 2 deaths an hour. We're at 7. That's one death every 8.57 minutes.
@@BassLiberators One fatal crash! And a huge number more of injurious, and even MORE where only the car is wrecked. Cars are dangerous AND expensive!
In my anecdotal experience, I get a "sunburn" from welding far faster than the sun can achieve. So a welding arc is worse I think, for UV anyway.
Yes it is, he was completely wrong about that
When I saw the eclipse in 2017 (using special glasses), it felt like my monkey brain just...broke. Like there was this giant fire that wasn't moving, and it was dark but sun still out? It was definitely confusing.
When I saw the eclipse in 2017 (using special glasses) I wasn't in the totality. It was my first eclipse and it was kind of disappointing. If you looked at the sun or took a photo of the sun (or sunlight shining on the ground through a tree) you saw a crescent, but otherwise it looked pretty much the same outside. I look forward to experiencing the surrealism of a total eclipse someday.
I looked to my friend afterwards and said, "I would absolutely sacrifice entire villages if I didn't know what that was."
@@jlillerI had the same experience in 2017. This year, I'm still not in the path of totality, but I bought a camera filter to use with my phone to try to get better pictures.
Saw the eclipse over in Mena Arkansas with some good friends-had a great view with no problems with clouds.
And yes, we all had our shades on and wore your ekleipsis tshirt-and might i say we looked quite cool as the hip kids would say :)!
I live in central NC and I'll be travelling all the way to my back yard for the eclipse. We're only getting 85% coverage here, but I drove to eastern TN for the 2017 eclipse and that experience was enough to make me stay tf home for any future eclipses. Too many people, too many cars, too much dumb.
Local news has been going on and on about how the Triangle is "only getting 85% coverage" and I'm like "yup, that's plenty enough for me, I shall experience it from my balcony."
As someone who drove from Asheville to Huckleberry Knob the morning of the eclipse I totally agree. What a traffic nightmare. ~2 hours to get there that morning, 7 hours to get back to the hotel after the eclipse. The drive home from NC to CT the next morning after the eclipse was horrendous, 81 north was a parking lot and we skirted on and off backroads along 81 through most of North Carolina and Virginia, only steadily getting on the highway finally way up near Luray. It was brutal. There was more traffic up north too in Pennsylvania. Wound up finally getting a room in Allentown PA at 3 AM after leaving Asheville at 6 AM. Awful lol. That being said for this eclipse about 9 months ago I just found a hotel that is directly in the path, has a park nearby that I can setup at, and have it booked Sunday and Monday night, so we're straight chilling until our drive home from NY to CT Tuesday (which will probably be traffic hell again, but at least it's only 4.5 hours away)
As someone currently wondering about a normally 4-hour drive up to Vermont... I am furiously taking notes about eclipse traffic horror stories.
@@MarkThePage in my experience it's much worse afterwards, the people slowly trickle in over the course of the entire day and morning, but after the events over everyone leaves at the exact same time
Hank, you got it backwards. The welding arc is more intense than the sun is, with high amounts of UV radiation. Consequently, the UV filters in a welding helmet are passive, meaning the part you adjust to see, the "shade" number, is adjusting only the visible part of the light spectrum. Your chances of having your eyes damaged with a welding helmet are significantly reduced, even if you get the shade wrong and pass too much visible light, especially since this visible light will appear too bright, and you can turn the helmet down to where it is comfortable.
Yeah I've never heard of anyone getting itchy eyeballs from a short exposure in peripheral vision to the sun.
My shift at work starts at the peak of the eclipse here. My drive is 20 minutes. I'm leaving an hour early, just in case. The drive will be wild
Thank you for planning ahead. Be safe and have a good work shift.
You might as well just get to work the day before and stay there. Otherwise, you'll have to work remote from the traffic jam.
Vermont traffic was chaotic, but really well behaved. No car accidents because on the way home was a standstill
Thank you for the safey reminders! I'll make sure my family stays safe during the eclipse.
Thanks as well for the hope-inspiring, laughter-inducing talk at my campus yesterday. It was a joy.
why did i watch this after the eclipse...
THE SUN IS BRIGHT YALL
NO IT'S HOT
There’s like soooooo many photons.
Thanks, Captain Obvious. It's ya'll btw.
@@25aspooner From the neutrons
Wasn't Hank's entire point literally that the Eclipse is in fact not bright but will hurt you anyway?
I mean, it might bring about years of darkness for people who stare at the eclipse for too long…
Another thing about the driving danger- there will be many people driving on roads they are unfamiliar with, and many people driving more hours in a row than they usually do. These both raise the danger. I live in a large city in the path of totality and am already planning on working from home till at least Wednesday.
I'm also travelling to enjoy my first total eclipse! And yes, it seems like its going to be cloudy in my area, but it's still going to get dark.
And the temperature will drop!
It was cloudy for where I was at for totality for the 2017 eclipse, and I was so worried we wouldn’t get to see it, but the coolest thing happened. As it neared totality and the temperature dropped the clouds dissipated. It looked like they formed a circle around where the shadow was! We were able to see totality with no clouds. Minutes after the cloud cover came back in. Here’s hoping that happens again!
Report/Update: The clouds cleared just in time! It was so utterly *beautiful* I can't quite capture it in words.
@@pinkcupcake4717 Yay! I'm so glad the clouds cleared up!!
@@pinkcupcake4717 Thank you for the update! I’m so glad you got to experience it. That moment when totality hits feels impossible to describe.
Something about the energy of "WE ARE AN OCEAN WORRRLD" at 2:54 just had me in stitches.
Also thanks for the PSA, Hank. I'm in Canada and driving over an hour (in the morning, well before eclipse time) to go see it, I'll be extra careful on the road!
I'm also not driving home until like 10 or 11pm because I don't trust those drivers either!!
GOOD MORNING HANK! Happy Friday. Marking a month at my new job today so I’m glad to have a Vlogbrothers video to celebrate with while having lunch. 🤗 I hope you have a good weekend!
congrats!! get that bread
Congrats on one month!!
@@dustyboialex thank you!!
@@untappedinkwell thanks!!
I live in the path of totality, and we're being advised to not drive anywhere & just watch the eclipse from near our own homes, which seems like a good idea. So if you can watch the eclipse from your own back yard, do that! Or just walk somewhere you can get a good view instead of getting on the road with a bunch of people who're unfamiliar with your city.
If only the US had an extensive network of trains that could take you to the totality path
How come people can accept that car companies control govt and public behavior to worsen our quality of life for profit, but when you say pfizer and friends do that suddenly you're a tinfoil freak?
Well, Henry Ford made sure that would never happen, and Elon musk carried the capitalist torch for him.
Interesting how everyone can accept that car companies control the govt and public behavior for profit, but you say that about another industry and you're a tinfoil nutjob
Let's see if my comment still gets ai censored, I left out the word pfizer so maybe that's enough of a change.
@@jiaan100No, it got censored. RUclips censors absurd amounts now that they don’t need people to do it.
"Even babies stop doing things when they hurt" is such a funny statement to me. I wish every human had basic baby-level intelligence.
Heck, yes.
"Well, if babies do that, then surely I'm smarter than a baby! I'm gonna not do that!" - some guy, probably
Other thing to mention to you folks on the far side of the pond: it gets cold. Bring some layers with you; if it starts as a warm day a t-shirt won't cut it. Bring a jumper, a coat, a cloak or whatever it is you have to hand.
As a librarian who has passed out over 2500 pairs of glasses over the past 10 days, I'm so ready for this damn eclipse to be over.
This is also going to be my first total solar eclipse! My parents traveled to go see the one in 2017, but since it happened to fall on the first day of classes for my second year in college, I ended up staying home. But now it's 2024! And I'm an adult with a job! And vacation time! So I'm taking a couple of days off work to go to Texas to see the eclipse with my parents and some extended family! If you can't tell by all the exclamation marks, I am very excited!
Great PSA, especially coming from someone with your credibility and following. Thank you!
Traveling to see it, spent the morning debating how far to go -- thanks for the cautions!! We might wind up sticking closer to home to avoid getting stuck. Even if its cloudy, cloudy totality is better than sunny nothing stuck on a highway, or worse, in an accident!
That's why I'm watching it from an airplane going from Chicago to little rock.
Safety first for anyone doing Eclipse activities! And if you're in the 48 contiguous US states, highly recommend looking up what your percentage of totality will be on the day. Be safe and enjoy the science, everyone!
Thank you for this Hank. I was just talking to my friends about how I was going to look at the eclipse with my naked eye and now I wont! My eye doctor salutes you.
Do we anticipate that the storms forecasted near the path of totality to make the driving situation even more dangerous?
PSA: Check your headlights before embarking on this trip, and make sure to turn them on when driving in the rain (or just when driving always). Thank you!
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Thank you for the PSA, i am looking forward to this Eclipse Event!. Safe Travels
Last year there was a solar eclipse where I live and I took one of those welding goggles, I was staring at the sun for several minutes while my dad wore a welder mask. At some point I asked ''are your eyes watering down too?'' and he said ''what do you mean?'', then I took his mask and realized that my goggles were not working at all 💀
has to be #14 welders glass, most mask's have the right protection, googles not so much.
They have cancelled school on Monday in Toronto and the GTA.
Loving the NASA jacket.
For those who live in the path of totality: expect your cellphone to stop working around the time of the eclipse. Not because of anything the sun is doing, but because there will be so many people in your area it will overload the cell networks. Happened in 2017.
I've been wondering as well if the lower perceived light would cause your pupils to stay dilated, letting in even more deadly photons
Deadly is the wrong word (RIGHT?) but also no.
to quote "history of the entire world i guess" by bill wurtz, "the sun is a deadly laser"@@FuncleChuck
I've thought that too
@@FuncleChuck What other mechanism is there for your eyes to get "tricked" though? That's the main difference between staring at the sun normally - your pupils constrict because of the light. But with less light from an annular/partial eclipse, they stay more dilated to let in more UV, surely?
I love that the automated closed captions took "Lovecraftian" and decided Hank said "Love, crafty and..." 😂
we love a yarn prophecy!
Gonna be my first total eclipse as well. Heading to Indianapolis.
I'm super excited for it! I'm less than 2 hours from totality, and I am going to head out early! I have lots of extra eclipse glasses and have been handing them out warning people (I used to work in Ophthalmology, specializing in a Retina clinic)...this is a GREAT PSA! Thank you Hank! 💖
Dangerous Eclipse because of Audrey II and the vibes.
+++ An important reminder to be wary of any strange new plants that mysteriously appear during/after a total eclipse. Do NOT give strange new plants blood, no matter how many times they ask!
Yep, I knew what was coming. I was going to go to northwest Ohio for the eclipse, but I'm having serious second thoughts now that I know how much traffic there will be. Not only will there be distracted drivers, there will be road rage when people are stuck in stop-and-go traffic for a long time. And trying to get on the highway from entrance ramps, when people are not going to want to let you in.
The sun is a deadly laser
No, the Sun is a deadly disco ball, God likes to party!
Not anymore there's a blanket
it's wild how my route was supposed to be an 8 hour round trip and because of the amount of traffic congestion, i was on the road for 17 hours and 8 minutes
It might be best to specify that a welder shade under grade-10 wouldn't protect you enough. I've used a grade-10 shade a lot to look at the sun and it's about the lowest shade I'd go but they sell higher grades.
He goes into more detail on that in his hankschannel video but just for public communication’s sake it’s probably safest to just advise sticking to certified eclipse glasses
@@ikechukwu4510 odds of getting fake "certified" eclipse glasses are way higher than getting fake welding shades.
Eclipses are more dangerous for your eyes than normal sun in part because your pupil opens and closes to adjust to the ambient light level. When you are outside in bright sunlight, your pupil is relatively closed, so if you do accidentally look at the sun, the amount of light getting into your eye is relatively low. During an eclipse, the ambient light is very low, your pupils will be wide open. Looking at the sun with wide open pupils has a higher risk of retina damage.
I wouldn't assume that it is sufficient eye protection for an eclipse on the basis that it is safe to look at the sun through in normal daylight.
@@SomeoneBeginingWithI It's not an assumption, it's experience. Grade 10 shades are at the point where you can look at a magnesium fire and be on the safer side. Grade 12 is even better.
The UV filter in a welding helmet is passive, the part you adjust with "shade" is the amount of visible light passed. You are still safe in the helmet, even if you get it misadjusted and get the visible portion too bright, the chance of permanent damage is significantly lower.
I was pretty worried about traffic, but honestly it wasn’t nearly as bad as I was expecting thankfully! I watched in the Texas hill country to the North West of Austin, and while there was decently more people around than normal, it wasn’t too crazy at all. Shout out to the local law enforcement for doing a great job managing traffic and ensuring everyone had a safe viewing experience. Truly was one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen
I'm so annoyed my workplace got Monday called off so much, because I could easily drive down to the Rax, but I can't because I couldn't get that day off.
Thanks hank, you've convinced me that I should travel in the strangest hours I can on Sunday. Hopefully making sure I'm not around large population centers around rush hour will keep everything to a minimum.
In fact you _can_ use welding goggles, if you buy shade 14 lenses. They are very much darker than the usual shade 5 for gas welding. In fact I don't know of any uses for shade 14 _other_ than looking at the sun.
(Yes, I'm a geek who owns shade 14 goggles :) )
I knew one of the girls that died in a car crash during the last eclipse. She got rear ended by a semi looking at the eclipse.
never been this early in my 10+ years of watching
THANK YOU FOR THIS HANKKKK I’m showing it to my students before we go see a 67% coverage eclipse. I got some kids who I have money on looking at it without glasses, but the explaination about our brain being wrong is great
This aged terribly
Why? Did things go better/worse than he said?
Evansville Indiana traffic was not that bad at all, I think the worst part was just driving through Nashville in rush hour both ways
I felt like you were yelling at me directly Hank. I’m watching this while driving home from work😮
Because of cultists, right? Must be
SPEAK NOT OF THE NIGHT YORB
Can confirm. Was sacrificed last totality.
Like the secret of Psalm 46 from the witness? Thats really not a good path to go down, as is warned in that talk. tl;dlisten numerology is believed by many, but is not cryptography, you can't crack it.
I55 between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau just cleared up about an hour ago- over EIGHT hours after the eclipse ended. I cannot fathom the number of wrecks they were dealing with.
My favorite Asimov short story is Nightfall. It's about a world that doesn't know night except every 2049 years when there is a total eclipse of the suns and all of society crumbles.
Hey Hank, I'm going 80 miles south to Jackson Missouri. The Eclisp view is best in America and Totality will be about 4 minutes and 6 seconds. "Cheap" hotel rooms that day are $500 plus taxes, or almost $600.
Eclipses make me realize how generally distrusting I am bc I never trust that eclipse glasses are actually gonna do what they say they’re gonna do lol
My brother has a beautiful home in the suburbs, and we live less than a minute from his house. We’ve decided to have an eclipse party there because it will be safer. We’re very lucky to live directly in the path of totality so we don’t have to travel. I’m so freaking excited I can hardly stand it!!!
It’s eclipse time (not for me tho, Europe😢)
Sad European no-eclipse high-five!
My college in Maine has shut down all attempts to have the school drive people to see the full eclipse like an hour north. The town is also shutting down all main roads for the afternoon, which is going to be wild because we’re like THE main throughway to the totality in our area on top of being a major travel road for every semi-trailer in central Maine
Can we look at the eclipse?
"NO! THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER!"
Hey Hank love your work! Watching from Tel Aviv right now! You are huge out here in Israel and we love you! DFTBA!
Hank is staunchly anti Zionist and anti genocide so I can assure you the feeling is not mutual
I was very fortunate to have lived within the totality path of that August 2017 eclipse. I just went outside, watched it, and went back inside. My older brother also sent us the special glasses a few days before it happened.
Honestly, I used to stare directly into the sun and light bulbs A LOT as a kid and my vision is still totally fine decades later.
"I SEE YOU"
Now I'm imagining opening my phone while driving my nonexistent car and the screen immediately changing to Hank's face with the word NO underneath it.