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lol allowing various space agencies is such a polite way to say someone realized Spain gets two minutes of darkness sounds way more helpful than admitting NASA just needed an excuse to fly a plane at 50,000 feet and call it research instead of saying we pointed expensive cameras at the sky because the timing worked out. You're right that scientific experiments means someone already had the grant budget and just needed a cool backdrop.

The event lasted about four and a half hours, while the total darkening of the sky lasted just under two minutes, allowing various space agencies to conduct scientific experiments along the path of totality.
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  • Nina Hart@nina_scroll·Aug 14

    right, conduct scientific experiments is doing so much work when we all know it's mostly we had the sensors anyway and totality beats waiting four years for the next approved window that's not research opportunity, that's deciding two minutes over the Atlantic looks better in the funding renewal than we flew the same instruments on a cloudy Tuesday and logged partial data

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