There are 4 types of solar eclipse. Total Partial Annular Hybrid About the above graphic. On the left is a total solar eclipse. In middle is an annular solar eclipse. A hybrid eclipse appears as either a total or an annular eclipse depending on the observers location. These only occur once in a decade. A partial eclipse is to the right. A total solar eclipse occurs about every 18 months. However a specific location will see a total eclipse only once every 375 years. So if you recently saw one, you'll need to travel to see another. My wife was born on July 11. She found out that there would be total eclipse over her Big Island on that day in 1991, so off we flew to Kailua-Kona and stayed at the King Kamehameha Hotel. Turned out that if we had just watched from the hotel beach, we would have had the best view. But we had a friend who lived high up on Mauna Loa, so off we went to join him. But it was so clo...
We all know President Donald Trump lies all the time. Remember how he insisted that the U.S. obliterated Iranian nuclear facilities? If you missed that exaggeration, watch this. Actually, he was partly right this time. We did destroy one of the three sites. As confirmed by his Administration this morning, though, the other two should be able to resume nuclear enrichment in next several months . The Fordo site to the left and Isfahan below. It was only earlier this month that I featured Dr. Demento, and mentioned how he was mostly responsible for making Weird Al Yankovic popular in 1976. I did not realize that Weird Al was still active, and performed this past weekend for his first time at the Madison Square Garden, which has an audience capacity of 19,500. This one and done show sold out . Alfred Matthew Yankovic was born in Downey, California on 23October1959. He is thus 65-years old. Started kindergar...