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I heard this first on a local all-news AM radio station whilst driving the car: the path of the eclipse will be 2400 miles.
Later I heard/saw it again on BBC News.
Now, the big deal of it is that totality crossed the entire US; west->east. Now, at least when I was younger, the width of the USA was 3000 miles. The path of the eclipse, being a diagonal, would be even be longer.
So - we need to need to add a new term to our 2017 vocabularies. We have added "Fake News", "Alternate Facts", and we need one each for "Fact Checked by Idiots" and "We don't need to check no stinkin' facts"
Now - just imagine how much fun you can have with things that are even less easy to verify! I should have started a news media empire.
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No, no you are forgetting that several of the states it would normally cross do not believe the earth is round. And in the flat earth model, eclipses cannot occur. So they don't.
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Why can't eclipses occur in a flat earth model?
These are the facts:
- The moon is made of marshmellows and has been nailed in a fixed position 27.856 miles above the flat earth by an unknown but intelligent designer.
- The sun moves around the flat earth every day and the shadow of the moon will therefore also wander over the flat earth.
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The moon is 3000 miles above the earth, and the sun is the same distance - they move on the inside of the Celestial Sphere on fixed tracks. As a result, the moon can never be between the sun and the earth, instead it comes so close it becomes burnt, which is why it "fades out" into a crescent each month, and has be be regrown with fresh green cheese to reach "full moon" status again.
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OriginalGriff wrote: several of the states it would normally cross do not believe the earth is round. And in the flat earth model . . .
If I'm not mistaken, those states are part of the EU.
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+1 to you. 
You win this round (emphasis on round). 
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That 1 looks pretty flat to me!
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Quote: According to Stephen Jay Gould, "there never was a period of 'flat Earth darkness' among scholars
Oh, well Stephen said it so it must be true. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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But...but...but...I (and a friend) wrote a musical whilst in High School called The World Is Flat (And That Is That) about Columbus, which depended on a widespread belief in a flat Earth.
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LOL!
But ... but ... it's turtles all the way down!
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That's a lunar eclipse, where the sun casts on the moon the shadow of The Great A'Tuin.
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Yes.
OG didn't specify the type of eclipse in his post.
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Yep, I wasn't arguing any point, I was just appreciating the Discworld reference. GNU Sir Terry.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Now, at least when I was younger, the width of the USA was 3000 miles.
That must have been a long time ago, the US is about 2680 miles across at its widest point.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Earthquakes (West Coast).
Other Popular Options:
- Despite what you heard, the shrinkage is not due to too high a temperature when in the dryer.
- It swells up and gets bigger if we win a war.
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Being that the U.S. hasn't technically "won" a war since the Spanish-American War, it must have shrunk quite a bit.
Cannot count WW 1 & 2 as U.S. actions did not decidedly cause any nation to surrender.
Brittan's tanks broke the stalemate that ended WW 1.
For WW 2, the Soviet Union crushed the Wehrmacht, the end result being the collapse of Nazi Germany.
Also, their defeat of the Japanese army on the mainland (in very short order) forced Japan to surrender to the U.S. so they wouldn't become a communist puppet.
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So, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn't end the war in the Pacific? Methinks your revision of history is nonsense.
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Technically, no, they did not, at least not entirely. From a damage and causality stand point, they don't compare to the damage done with conventional bombing and incendiary bombing. By analyzing the timeline, it's clear that the Japanese military didn't formally accept the Allied terms of unconditional surrender until after the Kwantung army was throttled by Red Army in Manchuria. Yes, emperor Hirohito did call for surrender but that was weeks before the military laid down their arms and only after they knew that they would not be able to hold back the Soviets.
After repeated analysis of the events, the claim that the atomic bombs ended WW 2 begins to appear as another example American exceptionalism instead of the discrete cause. We could have nuked every city that they had and they would have still kept fighting.
To go a bit further, there were good reasons for the Japanese to prefer surrendering to Allies over the Soviets. Chief among these is the Emperor of Japan. It was highly probable that the Soviets, with their anti-aristocracy ideology, would have deposed the Emperor and crushed Japanese culture. By surrendering to the Allies, losing the Emperor was a possibility but not a guarantee. Knowing that defeat was inevitable, they took the calculated risk by surrendering to us.
In the end, the Japanese got to keep their emperor and their culture which isn't bad to them considering the alternatives at the time.
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I would suggest giving this a read when you have time: Surrender of Japan[^] (it's a bit lengthy). It goes into quite a bit of detail about those final weeks.
Basically, until the Soviets smashed the army on the mainland, the leaders of the military refused the idea of surrender. Up until then, Hirohito's power to control the direction of the government and country had been, for all intents and purposes, usurped by the military. Once he the military realized that all hope for victory had been lost, the top brass conceded defeat. Even a coup was attempted by some officers to block the surrender.
That's why I stand by my first assertion using nuclear weapons is not the only factor contributing the conditions that made Japan surrender.
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Total eclipse path does not depend on the width of the country you are living in. Even if it is USA 
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The length of the path still needs to obey the rules of Geometry - even in the USA.
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