human
We shall soon be able to determine one date with absolute certainty, I said to the doctor, when we must have been some twenty days out.
gpt
I have been reading up your almanack, and I find there is a total eclipse of the Sun by the Moon on June 29th.
human
You might as well try to eclipse him with a straw-hat, as far as we are concerned, he replied.
gpt
The Moon will necessarily be on the further side of the Earth when that occurs, and the eclipse will barely reach the Earth. It will fall short of us by a matter of some thirty million miles!