The Last Total Solar Eclipse
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- čas přidán 16. 02. 2023
- There's a total solar eclipse visible from some part of Earth every 18 months or so, but one day, there will never be another. When will the final total solar eclipse be, and will humanity be around to witness it?
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i don't know why I expected anything less than quite a long time but I'm glad I probably won't be alive by then
Man such a spoiler...
Bro… I’m imortal
Speak for yourself, I'm very healthy.
@@SpaceflightSimulatorI might be immortal too, good luck whos right, huh?
@@Morphro1 fr I'm not even about to finish this video after that
I can't believe I won't be able to see a total solar eclipse in 1 billion years from now :(
I'm 41 and still never seen a total eclipse. I've seen one partial eclipse but never a total solar eclipse.
I hope I'll see one before I die.
Didn’t see my first until I was 56, huge difference between a partial and a full.
There’s another one passing through North America on April 8th 2024.
Many years ago, and not long after passing my driving test, I decided to drive a good few hundred miles to catch a total solar eclipse... and it was cloudy 🤦♂️.
Meanwhile, my parents had a cracking viewing of the partial eclipse from their back garden.
You know that can Google the next one right? It's like all investigated already
@@katleman i know and it k8lls me because it's passing over north texas where i used to live but I'm in California now! DX
I hear ya!!...Am in my late 50s and still haven't seen one either....I live in Canada and the last total solar eclipse visible in this country occurred back in Feb '79 when I was in my teens....But even then, the path of totality only hit parts of the western provinces and northern part of the country (I lived in the east). I did get to witness an annular eclipse in the 90s...but that's just not the same 😉!!!.... I am really looking forward to the 2024 North American eclipse. According to the maps, I live in the path of totality.....so I just need to cross my fingers that it will be a clear day!
I have seen two solar eclipses one in Virginia and one in South Carolina a few years ago. They are truly impressive sights both times birds got quiet as the sky darkened and bats came out for a few minutes
love thinking about how confused those poor bats were. "what??? why dark??? where bugs?!?! WHY BRIGHT AGAIN"
First one I saw was in Tennessee a few years ago and it was amazing.
Lucky you. I witnessed one and the sky got cloudy just in time for the grand finale.
The Mrs. and I drove to Charleston for the Eclipse a couple of years ago. 5 hour drive. Worth it!
@@WeAreAirborne Lol I thought that too.
Saw the Great American Eclipse, one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Really incredible how fast it becomes night, and just as suddenly its day again. The cheers and yells from the hundreds of people watching with us was an awesome sound too
How quickly the temperature drops even for a not quite total eclipse was surprising to me.
@@patrickmccurry1563 I was working on my truck and yeah, it got chilly quick
We went to the Tennessee Great Smoky Mtns for the 2017 US Eclipse. IT WAS AMAZING! Solar eclipses are most definitely proof that some things are MORE magical when you know how it's happening.
What? More magical when you know how it's happening? Ancient people didn't know what was happening so they went apeshit in a bunch of different ways because of eclipses, if you aren't sacrificing your virgin daughter to an angry God I'm pretty sure it's not more magical to you than it was to them.
@@DracoOmnia so true 🤣🤣🤣
Saw the 2017 eclipse in Huntington Oregon. Very surreal. It got so dark the street lights came on and it stayed that way long enough.
As long as I’m able to watch a total eclipse for a second time, I will be perfectly happy, because it’s such a magical experience.
I think it was 1994 or 95 when I saw a total solar eclipse. The small city I was living at that time was exactly in the middle of the umbra and the day was completely clear so it was perfect. I sent caution to heck and looked directly at the solar disk and could clearly see the corona. It was absolutely jaw-dropping. I remember it clearly and hope to, one day, see it again.
Imagine seeing it thousands of years ago without knowing what was happening
During the totality, that's actually the time to look (when you see the corona around the disc, and everything is cold and black); its during the non-total parts of the eclipse you need the eye protection.
Do not look directly at the eclipse ( or the sun or a laser) with remaining good eye 👁😏🤷♂️
@@Sephiroth144 No, you shouldn't look directly at it then either. It's not safe.
Went to Tennessee to see the last one in the US, it was amazing.
We were glad to have ya here! :)
A total eclipse is expected to pass by my area next year. Exciting times.
1:39 - Yeah, whenever I organise a party I always make sure I'm done at least a million years before the event.
Thanks for the video y'all! :D
2:26 I don`t know why but I always hate to think about the end life on planet earth.
Not in a catastrophic way like in a movie - rather just a slowly but steady walk into an inevitable end.
Yeah I don’t think our brains are equipped to process that kind of information. In a weird way, a cataclysmic, doomsday event is easier to digest than the much more likely slow decay into oblivion.
How about the heat death of the universe? That's a real bummer.
good news, with continued climate change, we can accelerate it into a faster jog to an inevitable end! You're welcome.
Question: does anybody know if the more complex calculations took into account the fact that the diameter of the Sun's photosphere is actually increasingly as it ages as well? (So it's also going to get harder and harder for the Moon to block the entire thing for That reason as well.)
Thanks in advance!
This is the exact comment that I came here to make. The sun expands and contracts by about 2 kilometers in radius every solar cycle (11 years) but I believe it’s still too difficult to measure the net gain in size.
Edit: Changed diameter to radius.
love this channel
Wow! Thanks!
The sun isn't just getting brighter, it's also expanding. Maybe this just doesn't move the date an appreciable amount?
Not sure that would make much difference since the total mass of the sun is still centered in the same spot. Could be wrong though. Interesting question.
It will make a difference, but as she said, that's about a billion years away, and there will be other problems
I haven't gotten to see a total eclipse yet. I'm 46 and the closest I have ever gotten was back in the mid to late 80s. Had my dad drove us about 50 miles south, we would be seen it.
I tried a couple times to travel to witness one and both times it was cloudy.
The next one I’m planning to see is gonna pass through St Louis in April 2024!
@@filoteoIt’s partial in St.Louis
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It doesn't matter what your I.Q. is. When you see the totality of the eclipse your naked eyes, it feels like GOD is gazing his stare right over you. Truly humbling.
I remember when we had a partial solar eclipse a few years ago. Not only was I able to see it with the special glasses, but I also saw the partial eclipse through the shadows of my tree! It was so cool tbh!
Good video. 🙂
love that t shirt!
Very informative video. I was surprised we have 600 million plus years. What about the converse, when was the first total eclipse - that is to say when did the moon's orbit settle into that sweet spot?
Yes this is important i want to know this
I'm guessing that the Earth's probably been experiencing total solar eclipses since the day the Moon was formed - about 4,500,000,000 years ago. Of course, the Moon was much closer to the Earth at that time and would have appeared much larger than the Sun, so the eclipses would have more frequent and lasted a lot longer than they do now. (Currently, the maximum length of a total solar eclipse is about 7 minutes and 20 seconds.)
It was the second Tuesday in March of 1973.
@@rafetizer ummm....
@@stevevernon1978 lmao
That t-shirt is metal and I NEED one.
I saw the last one at a dentists appointment and missed out on the height of the eclipse, which wasn’t going to be a full one where I was anyway, but I still have mixed feelings about it lol.. I did get to see it a bit, but not as fully as I wanted to. I forget how old I was, but I will never forget what it looked like.
It wasn’t a coincidence, but a mathematical harmony.
Sad, but fascinating.
For "another" 600 million years? Quite presumptive that we've already enjoyed them for that long already.
Time flies, we need to act fast!
Hi Savannah!
Sooo basically in the past the moon was closer n completely blocked sun!😮
A solar eclipse. The cosmic ballet goes on.
So, just when the sun is going to enter the red giant phase and kill all life on earth, on top of that we're going to lose our nice eclipses?
It always kind of surprises me how the idea of a solar eclipse isn't some sort of tourist destination in sci-fi settings.
AND YET… HERE WE ARE
I like the way Savannah blithely trips the light fantastic of cosmic events in this one.💫
Thanks for the sweet story about a romantic anomoly Savannah. Astronomy is such a bizarre and surreal thing for my small damaged brain, when I stare glassy eyes at the stars I forget to take in any facts or information about the interesting and quirky planetary bodies that are closer.
Just another reminder that Humans are just a micro blip on the ultra grand time scale of the universe.
I've never seen one as they are quite rare in Aus, the first one in a long time is coming this April but in such a remote spot that that's still populated that it's not affordable unless you booked a few years before most people were aware of it's 2023 date. I heard there is another on in 26? near Sydney and that should be much easier to get to without paying half a dozen to 10s of $1000 on travel and motel/camping sites etc...
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART
Kind of wild that we figured out the moon is moving away from earth rather quickly, faster even than a good chunk of Earth's tectonic plates...
I knew that the sun was going to get brighter in a billion years, I was wondering if it was going to get any larger at that time as well? Since that would also affect eclipses.
I just want to know where do I get that shirt! 🙏
Wow
And here I am starting the video, thinking that soon I will not see a solar eclipse... XD XD
At least we'll always have total eclipses of the heart.
Can someone calculate how many eclipses we have left? I know someone has done it already, show us your math!
How often do solar eclipses occur on other planets (say Jupiter with so many moons) and what would they look like?
So we've got a few good looks left. All right.
This is EXACTLY the kind of content that inspired me to learn more about space and science like 7 years ago, hope this is someone else's first spark of "damn, earth really is gonna be baked away in a billion years". Thank you Savannah and team :)
If the moon has been moving further away over time, did it used to look bigger than it does now?
As the sun ages and heats up it'll also shrink slightly, from our perspective, until it goes all red giant on us. That'll affect the calculations as well.
I've never really thought about it,thank you
I thought space was expanding at the speed of light. How could this be?
Summary:
So, for some reason, the Moon is running away from us (_shhh, it's NASA bouncing lasers off the Moon_), but it's too slow and the Sun will eat us up before the last TSA, so yeah, it's doesn't matter.
As if we're not gonna destroy each other waaaaay before that.
🎶We won't be here, 🎶
🎶 It won't be hurt, 🎶
🎶 Our best and brightest figure 🎶
🎶 That it'll make an even bigger 💥!
Than my next question is; what are the effects on the earth and us as the moon is going away from us?
In a billion years, humanity will likely be eclipsed.
What are your thoughts about the moon being pure plasma.
And if so, what would become of that fact
I just had a very wabi sabi moment thinking about this.
I saw a total solar eclipse almost exactly 32 years after I was born (it was only five hours off), and I proposed under it. I was not happy to see that they're going away.
there will be plenty left for you to see. Or, you could invent human immortality.
So, someone sat up to 4am staring into an empty beer glass and thought: when will the last solar eclipse be?
Then went to work it out…
Maybe the moon isn't getting farther but it's shrinking 🤔 lol
How will the moon moving further away affect the oceans?
If we are still around by then I hope we have figured out how to stabilize the moons orbit. Not having our moon would be an extinction level event, a slow one albeit, but it would be catastrophic none the less.
Ok but when was the first total solar eclipse?
Too hot is better than too cold in my book 😆
By then we hopefully figure out a way to place a fail safe into the earth to keep its distance even in case humanity fails.
At least other channels make the effort to give both imperial and metric measurements.
So is that just determined by the rate which the moon moves away? Wouldn't solar expansion and variations in the earths orbit contribute to this?
Ready to be sad?
I warned yea!
Last solar eclipse i witnessed was the day my wife died. All i could see through the waterfall of tears, was the grass between my feet growing dark.
I was waiting many hours for the coroner to arrive so i could see her for one last time.
Dont think i could bare to see another eclipse.
I really loved reading all the comments about other peoples experiences, and I really hope im the only one that has this kind of story to share.
Luv ya all!
Tried not to get to heavy, but a life story like that only has one tone.
So it’s almost 1 1/2” a year for those who don’t have a calculator handy !
bought a p4a blanket
Q: How many Moons does Jupiter have?
A: Jupiter has as many as 92 known natural satellites, none of which are named "Moon".
When is the next solar eclipse
Entertain this really dumb question for a moment, please?
Let's say that we realize that the moon is getting a little bit too far away from Earth to give us the neat and beautiful total eclipse we know today, and we decide to push the moon a little towards Earth that we can still experience it for a few million years more.
How much force do we need to apply on the moon (and in what direction/angle relative to the Earth) so that we can change its orbit to move 3.8 cm p.a closer to Earth, rather than away from Earth?
How much dimmer was the sun when the life started appearing on earth?
Can you next answer when will be the last total eclipse of the heart? ;)
🌞😎
Bizarre that we exist in a time where we can see solar eclipses.
But perhaps as you said we cannot exist outside a time when there are eclipses because sun is hot.
* depressed *
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo bed time
moon moving away..... baby dont leave me pleadsw
i wish i was alive when the moon was closer to earth than it is now. how big was the moon in the eyes of a plesiosaur
Fire up your TARDIS, let's go see that last solar eclipse!
🌞🌚
Wait..the last I heard, it would take about 3 billion years for the sun to get large enough to kill all life on earth. 1 billion is just too soon... 😞
But the scientists shining a laser at mirrors on the moon is technically pushing the moon away FASTER!!! 😱
What about the sun getting bigger?
Is this around the same time the sun is supposed to start expanding? Is one event going to cancel out the other? Why can't we just have a good year??😭😭
sadly im not destined to see a total eclipse... i dont live in the paths, and i do not drive... so i plan on seeing one in the afterlife!
Well not with that attitude!
Sweet so Pink Floyd's "Eclipse" will be relevant for the rest of Earth's history.
2:02 is your answer. You’re welcome.
What about the sun itself though? How much expansion will it have gone through in 600 million years? Any? Because wouldn't that also make the moon cover far less?
Just a comment for the algorithm🏇🔚🚒
Do not look directly at the eclipse ( or the sun or a laser) with remaining good eye 👁😏🤷♂️
As the moon moves away, won't the effects that are pushing it away weaken, and while continue to move away, it will do so slower and slower?
i'm lucky enough that i'll be in the 100% totality for the 2024 eclipse, except that it happens in April, which doesn't have the best chance of clear skies in my part of the country >
How long has the Earth been experiencing total eclipses?
Since a planetary fender bender about 4.5 billion years ago. We're still weighting on Theia's insurance company to pay up for that.
@@Imprisoned1995 I have zero patience for those who insist on rejecting reality out of sheer ego like you are doing. Goodbye.