Oh man, I need to prepare for this event. It's going to be glorious and spectacular. I am thinking about buying at something like a pair of those special glasses that allows you to view things like this in perfect safety.

You know, in the days of yore, our ancient ancestors probably saw such events as world ending because they didn't understand the science behind such astrological phenomenon. I mean, imagine you're from a hunter/gatherer society back 10,000 years ago. You'd have the crap thoroughly scared out of you if the sun started disappearing behind a big black disk in the sky right in the middle of the day.

So, yeah, eclipses have been seen as an omen, or portents, by many different societies over the history of human civilization, so yeah, it's probably become ingrained in our psyche to at least find them still a bit unsettling.