Friday's remote solar eclipse will be on Internet

July 28, 2008 By SETH BORENSTEIN , AP Science Writer

(AP) -- A total solar eclipse will darken some of Earth's skies on Friday, but geography, weather, the economy and even the Olympics are combining to make it a hard and expensive for people to see it.

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