After seeing it in person I can understand why our ancient elders freaked the fuck out when these things happened. That never made much sense to me. I always figured it was just one or two minutes of unexpected darkness. You'd say "huh, that's peculiar" and then get back to your farming and cholera. It's far more dramatic than I was expecting. At 99% it's still the freaking sun and you still can't look at it, so it hits very suddenly without warning. Then you look up and there's a God damned hole in the sky. It's like somebody pulled the drain plug and the galaxy is pouring away. If you're just some serf tilling the fields, that's the end of the freaking universe and a pretty fine time to go on a kill-crazy rampage. Cracking heads and feasting on the goo inside. I'd be curious to know just how many people have up and dropped dead after being caught by one unaware. I can certainly see how many people have, now.