June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
54 minutes...
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Best place to see it if you can't see it direct: http://events.slooh.com/ - Live feeds from various telescopes along with commentary/radio broadcast and interviews with other scientists etc.
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Fuck. Went up to the roof. Cloudy. Looks like rain. http://web.kma.go.kr/eng/weather/images/satellite.jsp 
I guess I'll be logging on to that link. Thanks, PsyhoSerenity. 
I guess I'll be logging on to that link. Thanks, PsyhoSerenity. "A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
From the Uni New Mexico feed:
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Rough start, but the skies sorta halfway cleared up a bit...some early results from the ingress...
I shot a little video, too. Don't know how to post it, tho. Now I'm going back to the roof...
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Grey and raining here 
Great shots FBM!
Great shots FBM!
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Thanks, FF! Bummer about your skies. Looked that way earlier here, too. I may not be able to get any finer resolution than this in still shots, but if I can figure out how to upload the video, it'll be clearer.
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
They were warbling on about this on the news earlier. Why is this a deal? Just because it's rare or is there some scignificance to it?
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Just because it's not going to happen again in our lifetimes, I suppose. I don't know of any other significance.
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Great shot, FBM!! 
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Thankee. 
Back to the roof now...
Back to the roof now..."A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Audley Strange wrote:They were warbling on about this on the news earlier. Why is this a deal? Just because it's rare or is there some scignificance to it?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 171010.htm
Transits of Venus are very rare, separated by more than a hundred years. There have been 53 transits since 2000 B.C., but only six have been witnessed since the invention of the telescope in 1608. These rare events occur in pairs, with the first transit occurring June 8, 2004. The next opportunity won't be until Dec. 10 and 11, 2117.
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
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"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Grey and drizzly here - I forced myself to wake up and look out at sunrise (which was not a pleasant time of day this morning) but no chance.
Thanks for the pics, FBM! I'll maybe catch it next time... 
Thanks for the pics, FBM! I'll maybe catch it next time...
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