Hey, I really like your articles. I read them regularly, but rarely comment. Especially in the last few weeks. What I like is that I feel like I'm getting inside your head.
You're way ahead of me on all this knowledge. So I feel like I'm picking up a movie along the way. But even if you take a movie along the way, you can understand it in the end.
As for the eclipse. I'm on the other side of the Atlantic; in France. And yesterday on the news, I saw that in France, the next one will be in 2081 (the last one was in 1999). I'm happy for you that you managed to see a bit of it. It won't change the world, but it's something to see.