{"id":1830074,"date":"2024-04-18T19:47:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T23:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1830074"},"modified":"2024-04-18T19:54:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T23:54:45","slug":"xkcd-every-eclipse-path-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/04\/xkcd-every-eclipse-path-map\/","title":{"rendered":"xkcd: ‘Every Eclipse Path Map’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Randall Munroe, “Every Eclipse Path Map,” xkcd, 17 Apr 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looks like we\u2019re not quite<\/em> done with eclipse maps, especially the whimsical sort, and it\u2019s not at all invalid for xckd to have (what is probably going to be) the last word on the subject (at least for a while), with this fictional map<\/a> showing the fictional path of a fictional eclipse over a fictional landscape, with rueful descriptions of fictional places where trying to see the fictional eclipse will come to a bad end for the fictional observers. (And you thought it was bad you got clouds.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looks like we\u2019re not quite done with eclipse maps, especially the whimsical sort, and it\u2019s not at all invalid for xckd to have (what is probably going to be) the last word on the subject… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[378,274,864,865,936,192,273],"class_list":["post-1830074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-cartoons","tag-comics","tag-eclipse","tag-eclipses","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-xkcd","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1791423,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/07\/xkcd-the-greenland-special\/","url_meta":{"origin":1830074,"position":0},"title":"xkcd: The Greenland Special","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 July 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"At some point, xkcd cartoonist Randall Munroe is going to put out a book focusing on his map-related cartoons, isn\u2019t he. 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