It ’s easy to imagine that those of us here in the other years of the 21st 100 are at a peak moment of science . We must be limited because we survive the right way now , and are witnessing the wonders of the humanity as it is right now . It ’s helpful to commend , though , that everyone presently alert on the face of the Earth just occupies a tiny mark along the long , farseeing line of human history .
as luck would have it , one of those markers arrives across the United States with the total solar occultation of Monday , Aug. 21 . " For us to come together in the land , this is a really awing fortune to just afford the public ’s eyes to enquire , and get people to opine about the most awful natural phenomenon that can befall on the surface of the Earth , " said Angela DesJardin , the principal investigator of theEclipse Ballooning Projectand director of theMontana Space Grant Consortium , during a NASA press group discussion in June . " It gets citizenry to wonder and think about what ’s going on in the cosmos and get along together in that very human way . "
And so when something like atotal solar eclipsecomes prognosticate , remember that people in the past , and all over the world , wonder at the same phenomenon — themselves sitting at their several peaks of human advancement , even if from today ’s vantage they seem quaint and outdated . So too will we , in tenner and centuries to come . For now , though , revel an occultation if and as you could .
