first hand. are you saying for us to work out our studios in los angeles, it will be a long time before we can first hand witness another total solar eclipse? >> the next total eclipse that will hit the united states is in 2024. just a few years from now. however, a coast-to-coast spectacular like what we had in 2017, that is very rare. a scale of once a few decades. i flew down to missouri to catch that total eclipse of the sun knowing it was coast-to-coast, knowing it happens a few times in a hundred years. it changes your conception of the universe. you feel like you're part of the universe seeing something that is astronomical. 93 million miles away, right there above you. >> trace: michio, you're the best. thanks for joining us. you can see right there it's