Solar Eclipse July 2019, Chile and Argentina: live stream

[sandensea]

[spike jones]

1. one hundred years ago 1919

Probably the most important eclipse in the history of science occurred on 29 May 1919. Just six months after the end of World War I, British astronomers used it to test a new idea that came from Germany in 1915.
The proposition was that gravity affected light, space and time itself, and as a result the Sun would deflect starlight passing by it. Changes in the apparent direction of stars in the sky, seen close to the Sun during a total eclipse, could confirm the idea.
The announcement of favorable results in London on 8 November 1919 signaled the replacement of Newton's theory of gravity by the theory of general relativity. Its originator, a 40-year old Berliner called Albert Einstein, at once became the most famous scientist in the world.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Relativity_and_the_1919_eclipse

[sandensea]

2. Fascinating.

Astrologers, for their part, have long believed eclipses bring disruptions to whatever country they pass over - and in particular, problems to whoever's in charge.

One of them happens to be a Trump buddy (and an absolute, Bush-style train wreck as well).