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Transit of Venus starts in a few minutes. Next one will be in 2117. Get your welder's glasses on!!
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:02 PM #1Deal Addict
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Staring at the Sun?
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:09 PM #2
Been staring at it for a few minutes now... seeing black dots everywhere
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:10 PM #3Deal Guru
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I just took a look. And now I'm blind. Forever. Thanks a lot!
Originally Posted by Sauerkraut
Hopefully they'll have perfected bionic eyes in time for me to see the next one.
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I'm enjoying my summer completely RFD-free. Such an ultimately pointless time-waster.
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:14 PM #4Deal Guru
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"Last Transit of Venus of Your Lifetime"
Such doom and gloom. Are there no optimists left? Surely out of all the people alive today, at least one or two youngsters/babies should still be around for the next one. It's only another 105 years. There are people alive older than that today, and in the future (presumably) there would be even more._______________
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:15 PM #5
Hummm, RDF should be translated into a braille format for our moniters, until the boinic eyes are invented anyhow.
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:22 PM #6Deal Guru
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Place your bionEYE pre-orders right now, BEFORE you attempt to look. Originally Posted by ishfish
The footage I'm watching, there are several other, smaller, dark dots on the sun. Other planets? Alien spacecraft? Should we be concerned?_______________
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:23 PM #7_______________
"I don’t see where it can go wrong for us." (Bautista, 2013)
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:39 PM #8
Here are approx. 5 more different feeds of the event here:
http://www.ustream.tv/TransitofVenusLast edited by xlc_88; Jun 5th, 2012 at 06:41 PM.
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:39 PM #9
Why is the sun changing colors?
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:41 PM #10Different UV filters used probably? Originally Posted by ishfish
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:43 PM #11Deal Guru
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Now we know why these transits occur in pairs.
One to take out the right eye.
One for the left.
Hopefully nobody actually harms their eyesight over this. I don't think there's much to be seen directly anyway. Stick with the telecasts._______________
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:45 PM #12Deal Guru
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Different sensors at different altitudes on the feed I was watching. Originally Posted by xlc_88
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:46 PM #13
My eyes!! The goggles, they do nothing!
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Jun 5th, 2012 06:56 PM #14Deal Addict
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There's a telescope party going on down at Varsity Stadium to watch the show.
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Jun 5th, 2012 07:59 PM #15
I like a fool went outside in a welders mask and I couldn't see whatever it is supposed to look like, I went in backyard but the trees were in the way, went to the front just saw the blob of the sun. I did get some weird looks from the neighbors though
Think I will stick to watching it on the news tonight.
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