Friday, August 1, 2008

Flight on a Solar Eclipse

A solar eclipse is happening today, which will start passing through Northern Canada at 8:04 am UTC, and will end in China a little after noon (12:38 UTC). The totality of the solar eclipse, which will last for about two and a half minutes at around 10:22 am UTC, will happen in Russia.

And in what other people may consider as a spectacular, scientific, natural phenomenon, a momentous, personal transition will be happening to me this same day.

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and earth, enough to wholly or partially cover the sun, thus contributing to some moments of darkness.

And people... well, the ancient ones, have never really been pleasantly receptive of this event and considered this particular happening as some "bad omen".

I could just scare the negative vibes away from my skull with it.

Flight today will be at 1:15 pm via Korean Air. Choice for the airline is mainly brought about by the cheaper rate, being the national carrier of our place of destination, and the bigger allowable carry-in lugggage. Korean Air allows up to 12 kgs, compared to Philippine Airlines' 7 kgs. Check-in luggage is the same for both mentioned airlines at 20 kgs, for an economy class trip.

Calculations on time has made me conlcude that by the time we arrive in Seoul at 6:05 pm, the solar eclipse has already been happening. It will be 9:05 am in unversal time, that's why, and as I've mentioned, solar eclipse starts at 8:04 am UTC. So that puts me in mid-flight when the general eclipse actually starts in Canada. Wow.

Goodluck to me and this heavenly happening.

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