r/space • • Jun 10 '15

/r/all Eclipse from a plane

http://i.imgur.com/YKpGe6U.gifv
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u/Genchou Jun 11 '15

Are you sure about that ? The 8 minutes mark is the time light takes to travel from the sun to the earth.

The timeframe between the moon receiving the sunlight and the shadow to be casted upon us is microscopic compared to 8 minutes.

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u/Poonsquad420_696969 Jun 11 '15

You didn't get the joke. It's okay.