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Freaky Eclipse Rituals, Cosmic Serendipity, Solar Mysteries


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Key Takeaways 
  • A common interpretation across civilizations is that solar eclipses happen when the people on earth have done something bad 
  • Another popular interpretation of solar eclipses is that when humans were fighting too much on Earth, the sun and the moon would begin to fight in the sky
  • In ancient civilizations, evidence of human sacrifices is common in places where eclipses occurred 
  • Today is the most cosmically perfect time in the history of the universe; the fact that we can see eclipses at all is a complete coincidence 
  • In 620 million years, the moon will be far away enough from Earth that we will no longer have total eclipses, only partial eclipses
  • No other rocky planet in the solar system has a moon large enough to cause a total eclipse 
  • After the April 8th, 2024 solar eclipse, the next viewable solar eclipse in the United States won’t be until 2040 


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Scientific American's Lee Billings and Clara Moskowitz join Rachel this week to talk all things eclipse.

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