My brother who lives in China saw it. He was attacked by a few zombies, but was able to ward them off with his machete. You never have to reload a machete.
When I was about 6 I hid in my room during a solar eclipse because my teacher at school freaked us all out by telling us how dangerous it is and that we'll go blind if we look anywhere near it.
I got to see one in Venezuela, in 1998. It felt like we were on an alien planet. All the birds started flying home.
Total solar eclipses are one of those things that can cause me to rethink my no god stance. It's a statistically rare thing in the galaxy and in about 600 million years, the moon will be too far away to cover the sun. So get out there and see one, cause the sale's almost over!
Factoid(s): If Jupiter didn't exist, we would have been hit a lot more by large meteorites, that would have either slowed the evolution, or killed off entirely, all the life on earth. Jupiter acts as a kind of sheild for us, because it's mass produces so much gravity, that it pulls in most large objects cruising in from the outer solar system.
If the earth hadn't collided with another planet, approximately 4.2 billion years ago, the moon wouldn't exist. (or so the theory goes) If the moon didn't exist, the Earth wouldn't tilt on it's axis and we wouldn't have seasons and therefore either no life, or a much different kind of life would have evolved here. But since the moon also produces tides and it's believed that tides helped to spur life in the first place, it's unlikely that we'd be here without it. So it's a good thing we have the moon and that it tugs on us the way it does.
Now I'm not a believer intelligent design, or the man upstairs, by any stretch of the imagination. I've always been more of a monkey's banging on a piano, producing Beethoven Sonnets kinda guy. But we're pretty fuckin lucky to be living on this rock... that's all I'm sayin.
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