You Gotta See This First If You Plan to Watch Today’s Solar Eclipse
Hundreds of millions of people here in the United States, as well as Mexico and Canada, will be able on Monday, April 8, to witness a total solar eclipse of the Sun beginning at 2:05 pm and ending two and a half hours later at 4:28 pm.
At the height of the event, the Moon will completely obscure all of the Sun except its corona for a few minutes, with a result that along a “path of totality” stretching approximately 115 miles wide, there will be enough darkness that some street lights may come on, there could be temporary interruptions of cellular service and animals may act a little puzzled.
More than 200 million Americans live within 100 miles of the totality path. (NASA illustration).
But did you know there are multiple aspects of this event that illustrate how the spectacular event is shaped by precise characteristics of the solar system, and indeed the universe?
To cite just one example, the moon’s gravitational pull on the Earth is essential to stabilizing the Earth at exactly the right angle on its axis to allow our climate to exist as it does and to help control the movement of tides and currents within our oceans?
And there’s much more in the following 5:29 video from the John 10:10 Project and Illustra Media that uses the 1995 total eclipse as viewed in India to highlight factors that “are so numerous and carefully balanced, they could never have accidentally converged in one location. Instead, they point clearly to purpose, foresight and intelligent design.”
Enjoy this video and Monday’s amazing, beautiful, powerful total solar exclipse!
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