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2004 Venus Transit In Pictures
oneiros27 writes "For those astronomy fans out there -- pictures are starting to come in from the 2004 Venus Transit (where Venus passes in front of the sun). Times of the transit will vary by city, but make sure you use safe techniques for viewing the sun if you want to look for yourself."
Anonymous Coward writes "Check out the transit of Venus webcast from Australia. It starts at 4.50 UTC on June 8." Update: 06/07 04:03 GMT by T : Linked webcast link updated to a URL projected to better handle the load, thanks to reader Tom Minchin.
commence!
I'M BLIND!!!!
I tried to look at Venus, and I burned out my eyes! Damn you Slashdot, damn you Sun! (The Sun, not Sun the Java people!)
It would be interesting if someday human could live in Venus (w/ the little help from terraforming), and experience the transit directly from there.
NASA.gov is in for the Slashdotting of its life!
This is a big desert, you could really get hurt out here. Now go away.... remember that you saw nothing.
I suggest you read Slashdot
It says that you can project an image of the sun with binoculars, Im hoping that a telescope will work as well, if not, watch the news for "Wild fire obliterates southern ontario, /.er in questioning"
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
From the article on safe viewing:
"More recently, solar observers have used floppy disks and compact disks (both CDs and CD-ROMs) as protective filters by covering the central openings and looking through the disk media."
My Dear Watson, I have discovered another use for AOL CDs! Grab the one from under that cup over there; we're going to watch Venus!
Their servers are keepin it up good. They were prepared for the huge amount of attention from the mars landings so they have some amazing infrastructure.
Thank god they didn't link to one of the 150,000kb RAW TIFFs. Nightmare for your connection and theirs =)
According to the post "- pictures are starting to come in". According to my calculations the transit doesn't start for 26 hours from now.
I'm going to die in 2011, you insensitive clod!
it would have to be around a half million miles in diameter.
Nonsense. Have you seen the sun lately? It's about the size of a quarter, max.
The photographic record of a Venus transit is nothing surprising. What astonishes me is that photographs are coming in from an event that is going to happen 2 days in the future.
He would have posted the comment sooner but he had a cold.
Hey, I heard the Monkeys got arrested ... it appears they got drunk and tried to peel Bananarama.
*shudder* '80's humor, I'm embarassed that I actually wrote this down. Mod me way down, if you value our civilization.
No, you see Venus would have to be bigger to cause an eclipse. At least the size of the moon, maybe a little bigger.
But since it's only the size of a Transit Van, it's passage across the face of the sun will only be The Transit of Venus.
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
Watson: "My dear Holmes, I've been using AOL CDs to watch Uranus for years!"
Fellowship 9/11
West coast gets hosed again!
We never get to see end-of-the-world omens here on the left coast!
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
...I'm tempted to make a Soviet Russia joke about them Slashdotting us...
What, like how in Soviet Russia, Nasa slashdots you?
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
Don't follow Bob's example...
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