And you have many more if you’re willing to travel. This one was “once in a lifetime” because it was right through the middle of the US, so accessible to a ton of people, and also there was a comet that may have been visible at the same time. There was another eclipse just a few years ago in the SE US. Clearly not “once in a lifetime” though it is fairly uncommon and very special.
You have another shot in 20 years in the us
And you have many more if you’re willing to travel. This one was “once in a lifetime” because it was right through the middle of the US, so accessible to a ton of people, and also there was a comet that may have been visible at the same time. There was another eclipse just a few years ago in the SE US. Clearly not “once in a lifetime” though it is fairly uncommon and very special.