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They stood on the buildings and checked if the sun was completely covered, nothing interesting about shadows etc

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• internet-name 3y ago
  I disagree. It's interesting to me that the data from the observers provided this information: "Everyone above 96th Street saw the moon completely covering the disk of the sun, though no one below 96th street was able to do so. That experience represented a victory in measurement: The eclipse’s southern border could be pinpointed to within 225 feet, or the distance between 230 Riverside Drive and 240 Riverside Drive. The shadow’s border was literally caught between two buildings, each on its own city block."
  • jmole 3y ago
    Aren't the movement of the earth and sun so predictable that we could have simulated this outcome to a similar degree of accuracy?
    • burkaman 3y ago
      Experiments like this are how you confirm whether or not your predictions are accurate.