Talking About Eclipses!

I love learning new things and your drawings just make it way more fun!

I didn't think I'd find this interesting, i should've known better. Before I started watching OSP I thought shakespeare and history were boring too 🙆 Is there a Crash Couse: Astronomy yet, and if not, can Red please host it? 😄

Huh, yeah, one would think there'd be more myths over eclipses... But yeah, feel free to speak more about the celestial bodies surrounding us, regardless of if it's facts or fiction!

PLEASE feel free to talk about whatever you want whenever you want.

More OSP expeditions please.

You really must go to the total Eclipse in April. I saw the one in 2017 and there is no comparison. 99.9% and 100% are two completely different things.

I loved the video. PLEASE read Chasing Venus by Andrea Wulf, it's about the 1761 transit of Venus across the sun which was used to estimatethe size of the universe. It was the first major international scientific collaboration. Think what you did but it took 5 years to travel to where to see it and build your own observatory only for it to probably be cloudy. It's an amazing book and really well researched and written (and it's on Audible if that helps). Thanks for another amazing video.

Watched this (the video) with my mom, who loves studying the celestial bodies. Was a lot of fun!

If you haven't already seen it. This is really cool: Is an eclipse described in the Odyssey? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0803317105

Talk about anything you dang well please. Talk about cupcakes if you want. Life is cool that way. 😁

There is a lot of mythology and folklore that is very interesting about eclipses. For example, it is very common in Mexico that during an eclipse, you see pregnant women with safety pins pinned in their pants over their bellys to "protect their babies". But that custom doesn't come from nowhere: turns out that before the spanish conquest of Mexico, the natives used obsidian to look at the sun, and to see eclipses, so yomen would have obsidian arrows hanging over their bellys to protect their babies from the hare that escaped form the moon during the eclipse, which gave the babies harelip (that's where the image of harelip comes from, rabbits and hares were a bad omen in ancient mezoamerican civilizations). When the pregnant spanish women saw that, they wanted to protect their babies from that dangerous hare that they heard so much about, but obsidian was too "indigenous", so they hanged silver or bronze scissors from their necks instead (to cut the shadow of the hare)... but it is not very safe to walk around with scissors over their bellies, so they changed them for silver keys. They would hang them with red laces, and secure them with pins. Later on the keys got lost, in some cases the laces also got lost, and all that remains to this day is the baby pin on the clothes... when the thing that worked was the obsidian... I love history

This video and its events are both awesome; kudos on getting to do that, Red!

This is so lovely! There's a myth in Hindu Mythology about Rahu trying to eat the Sun - that's how we get Solar Eclipses. He still tries, but he got his head cut off, so the sun just comes out of his still decapitated head's throat hole. So gory, so lovely.

My dad and I plan to go to San Antonio in April to see the eclipse. We went to Alto Pass, IL in August 2017 for that eclipse. It was a shit ton of fun! I wish I had known about the one in Oregon.

I know osp is primarily known for myths tropes and history but honestly I just love when they just get to talk about something they love for 20+ minutes (which is why I love detail diatribes lol)

already watching it on youtube