i saw a solar eclipse when i was 8 years old.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A solar eclipse (as seen from the planet Earth) is a type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and when the Moon fully or partially blocks (\"occults\") the Sun. This can happen only at new moon when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth in an alignment referred to as syzygy. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured. If the Moon were in a perfectly circular orbit, a little closer to the Earth, and in the same orbital plane, there would be total solar eclipses every new moon. However, since the Moon's orbit is tilted at more than 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit around the Sun, its shadow usually misses Earth. The Moon's orbit must cross Earth's ecliptic plane in order for an eclipse (both solar as well as lunar) to occur. In addition, the Moon's actual orbit is elliptical, often taking it far enough away from Earth that its apparent size is not large enough to block the Sun entirely. The orbital planes cross each other at a line of nodes resulting in at least two, and up to five, solar eclipses occurring each year; no more than two of which can be total eclipses.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I saw totality during the solar eclipse last year"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Where I lived I didn't see much. I didn't have the glasses for it. I hated that."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It was amazing. It happens when the moon passes between the sun and the earth."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes that was a special solar eclipse."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Since it was a total eclipse, the sun was fully obscured by the moon."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes. I didn't dare look up at it as they advised because I did not want to hurt my eyes."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, that can easily burn your eyes! They called it \"The Great American Eclipse\" because it passed through so much of America"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes where I live was where it wasn't seen as good."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "America has not had one like that since 1918!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It is a rare thing. So 100 years, wow!"}]