'OK, heres what you do, he said. Neil deGrasse Tyson

[elleng]

“If you can’t come here, you can’t go to totality, and you don’t have eclipse glasses, here’s what you do: go into your kitchen and get a spaghetti strainer, or colander -- not the mesh, but the kind with holes in it -- and go outside and hold it out over the ground. Each one of those holes will act as pinhole camera and you’ll see hundreds of images of the crescent sun on the ground, and you can watch the eclipse unfold safely.”

[aidbo]

1. A similar phenomenon occurs when looking at shadows cast by tree leaves during eclipses.

[Phoenix61]

2. How cool!

I'm definitely going to give that a try.

[forgotmylogin]

3. All you need is a shoe box and a pin and a steak knife.

Punch a tiny hole in one end of the shoebox, cut a window on an adjacent side, then put the lid back on the box. You can view the outline of the sun in the shaded box projected on the opposite side as the pinhole.