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It was visible from all of North and South America, and Western Europe, so most people couldn't see it.

Even if millions of people from Asia and Australia were interested enough to watch a live stream of it, I don’t believe they can categorically state that the majority of the people on the entire planet watched via live stream.

I’m mostly arguing because I find the idea of everyone watching the eclipse on a video screen kind of sad.

Why, I got up in the UK, found it cloudy and went back to bed. That I could have streamed it live is amazing if you think about it.

* if you were lucky enough not to have complete cloud cover for the duration.

It got so cloudy where I am shortly after the Earth's shadow began drifting across the moon that I couldn't even see which direction the moon was in. So I watched a live stream instead.

I checked ClearDarkSky[1] and was lucky enough to find a place to see it withing driving distance. There were three other carfuls of people from Southern California to see it. The clouds rolled in just after the point of total eclipse.

[1] http://cleardarksky.com [edit: https->http]

Looks like the URL needs to be plain-http, not https.

And unfortunately it thinks North America is the entire world. :)

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