Comment Re: "people alive will never see the sight again" (Score 4, Interesting) 27
The visibility has nothing to do with your position on earth. The reason people travelled to the other side of the globe to see this was to enhance the precision of measurements. A lot of effort went into positioning scientists and synchronizing clocks across continents. Think of it as the Apollo Project of the 18th century.
You can read about ist e.g. in "Mason and Dixon" by Thomas Pynchon (with a few liberties taken by the author).