Q. "Why the bummer hope?"
A. Old Soul, maybe because we have a few angry, depressed folks here who can't stand the thought of other people being happy.  (Or possibly our traditional Webfoot attempt to discourage tourists from settling here.)

Q.  What are the mathematical chances that our sun and moon would appear  to be, from our point of view, exactly the same size, thus making this perfect total eclipse possible?
(Or maybe it's not about math?  Is this the real "sign in the sky?")