Bonus Question: Why? If sunset in Boise, Idaho is 9:30 p.m. on June 21, and 9:03 p.m in Minneapolis the same day, that must mean Boise is further north, right? Unh-unh. Minneapolis is (further north), by about 100 miles. Instead, the sunset difference is due entirely to each city’s relative location within its time zone....Read More
I’m not going to charter a jet to watch a solar eclipse from some exotic locale, or pay a private company $100,000 (is that what it costs?) to see earth from space. But, I did just experience the poor man’s equivalent: a sunset that seemed to last forever. At least, that’s how it appears if...Read More
