William Shatner Spoke To space.com Before The Solar Eclipse

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William Shatner spoke with Space.com and local Indiana media about the Total Solar Eclipse and his performance at Indiana University's Hoosier Cosmic Celebration.

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00:00Well, the sun is going to be eclipsed.

00:04That alone is a monumental event and, you know, I mean, it happens every year.

00:11The sun gets in the way of the sun every year, but it affects some narrow part of the earth

00:18so that the next one over Indiana will be like a hundred years from now, we'll all be

00:25dead.

00:26I might not be, but you guys are going to be dead the next time.

00:30So it's an event, but when you ponder the mystery, if you ponder what's taking place

00:39in the heavens, it's gargantuan.

00:44It's perfectly probable that there'll be an enormous thunderstorm the instant the sun

00:52is eclipsed.

00:53It's also perfectly possible that it'll be a clear, bright, lovely, warm spring day,

01:02and we will all enjoy the benefits of the Hoosier weather.

01:07What happens if it's cloudy?

01:10I don't know.

01:12It's like looking into the pit of a volcano saying, what do we do about that thing?

01:20There's nothing can be done.

01:22There's nothing can be done.

01:23I've devised 15 minutes of me talking to the audience, 15 minutes before the actual eclipse,

01:32and because my last words, I'm sure will be, and now the eclipse, and the eclipse happens.

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