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Eclipse Path Maps

Title text: Okay, this eclipse will only be visible from the Arctic in February 2063, when the sun is below the horizon, BUT if we get lucky and a gigantic chasm opens in the Earth in just the right spot...

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A total solar eclipse occurred on April 8, 2024 in North America, ten days before this comic. This comic comments on the fact that most solar eclipses happen on territories not easily reachable by humans, or do happen near easy to reach places, but with weather conditions that make viewin the eclipse less appealing.

This map shows one ideal location for seeing an eclipse within a path of totality. However, having 40,000,000 visitors per 6 square miles would equal 2.57 people per square meter, which isn't very much space available per person.

The title text mentions a solar eclipse of February 2063, but this annular eclipse will traverse through the Indian Ocean rather than close to the Arctic. It then jokingly suggests that a giant chasm could open up, making viewing easier.

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Every eclipse path map

[Labels along the path from top to bottom:]

Zone where totality lasts 1-2 seconds

Bay of shifting ice

Shipwreck cove

Desert so hars they train Mars astronauts there

Sea of rocky crags and maelstorms

[State department travel advisory]

Isle of perpetrual fog

Nice, scenic, accessible area (6 square miles, 40,000,000 visitors expected)

Tornado capital of the world

Area where the eclipse will be low in the sky, behind the tornadoes

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