I wonder how many people in Indonesia have damaged their eyesight.
“I was so excited the first time I saw it!” said Yahra, a high-school student, viewing the eclipse through a piece of potato chip wrapper. Since early morning officials had distributed 4,000 pair of eclipse glasses, but with so many eclipse goers there wasn’t enough to go around.
It made for some resourceful and hilarious improvisations. One man grabbed an x-ray of his broken leg, the entire square sheet, allowing a handful of people to huddle behind it and view the eclipse together.
“I came for the free glasses but there weren’t any left,” laughed Abdul Rahman, 36, “Anyway, the x-ray material was very clear, better than the glasses.”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/...rhana-matahari
