The Astronomical Society of Victoria has arranged with the Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre, Richmond to conduct a viewing event of this rare astronomical event. A variety of telescopes with solar observing gear will be available for safe solar viewing. Venus's disk should be very noticeable in silhouette against the face of the Sun.
Time: 2pm - Sunset. Place: Southern end, Upper Level 6, Carpark, Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre, cnr Victoria & Burnley Streets, Richmond. Melway 44 H7
ASV members, their guests and members of the public are invited. The Shopping Centre is at Tram Super Stop 25, Victoria St on the Port Melbourne-Box Hill line. Catch Tram 109 in Collins Street, City. Undercover parking is available.
The next opportunity to Observe a Transit of Venus is in June 2012 and then the next two occur in December 2117 and December 2125 - a long wait.
Melbourne Observation Deck's admission charge includes more than breathtaking 360-degree views of the city and beyond. It also provides you with a 20-minute sight and sound extravaganza, 'Melbourne the Living City,' shown in the RialtoVision Theatre and free use of high-powered binoculars.
Adult $12.50 Child $7.00 Concession $9.00 Pensioner $8.00 Family (2 Adults and up to 4 Children between the ages of 4 and 15) $35.00
With a bit of luck we can scam a projection screen from somewhere.
The Rialto Observation Deck has fair quality telescopes on sturdy mounts -- the coffee's not too bad either. It was a good place to observe the 2002 eclipse from, watching the sky change from that height was spectacular. I know that's not going to happen with the transit but it's a fun place to hang out:) and there should be heaps of touristy types to entertain and amaze with//science//. Be there or be cubed!
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(become) the most convenient (inconvenient) hassle of my life. I have a Hitachi visionbook 4000 plus, running RH 7.1. (I) setup everything as outlined on the MobiliX site and the card works (worked) great... for about 2 weeks. Then I'll boot my box and the card wont (won't) load or recognize (Girlfriend!), and then if I do a/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart my box locks and I am out of High memory.. I eject the card and everything is back to normal. I take the card back to CrampUSA and exchange it for a new one of the same... and viola (voila) it works with no need to same type change config options. Until about 2 weeks later... it craps out again. This has been going on too long... (I'm on my 4th exchange). Anyone else have a similar experience? Could it be the way Linux handles PCMCIA? Is there a way to reset these cards or something? ARG!!!!"
How I wish that spelling mistakes and poor grammar made posts crash, just as poor coding makes programs crash! Dropped apostrophes, problems with tense, and your 'convenient hassle' all make you sound like a fourth grader.
I sincerely hope that English is your second language and that you are still learning how to write. If so, you have my apologies. If not, please, stop worrying about the PCMCIA card and start worrying about what your rotten grip on the language is doing to your career and employment prospects.
Around ten or fifteen years ago the Judge Dredd series visited South America a couple of times. The local law enforcement and judiciary were portrayed as brutal and corrupt, respectively, perhaps as reference to current affairs of the day, which was something the 2000AD writers were prone to do. If I still had all my comics I'd be able to quote it a little better.
More relevant to the use of Spanish (and babelfish) here at/. would be this morsel: one episode, set in Mega-City 1, showed mexican or latino gang members referring to the Judges as 'La Placa', or The Badge. Judge Dredd is seen re-writing their graffiti to say la placa rifa, or 'the badge rules' (2000AD's translation). Babelfish translates placa as 'board' and doesn't translate rifa, go figure. Gotta get me some of them neural SONY memory sticks... they should re-open their ESP division... grumble
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And it's a whole $12.50 cheaper than the Rialto
The Rialto Observation Deck has fair quality telescopes on sturdy mounts -- the coffee's not too bad either. It was a good place to observe the 2002 eclipse from, watching the sky change from that height was spectacular. I know that's not going to happen with the transit but it's a fun place to hang out :) and there should be heaps of touristy types to entertain and amaze with //science//. Be there or be cubed!
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How I wish that spelling mistakes and poor grammar made posts crash, just as poor coding makes programs crash! Dropped apostrophes, problems with tense, and your 'convenient hassle' all make you sound like a fourth grader.
I sincerely hope that English is your second language and that you are still learning how to write. If so, you have my apologies. If not, please, stop worrying about the PCMCIA card and start worrying about what your rotten grip on the language is doing to your career and employment prospects.
Around ten or fifteen years ago the Judge Dredd series visited South America a couple of times. The local law enforcement and judiciary were portrayed as brutal and corrupt, respectively, perhaps as reference to current affairs of the day, which was something the 2000AD writers were prone to do. If I still had all my comics I'd be able to quote it a little better.
More relevant to the use of Spanish (and babelfish) here at /. would be this morsel: one episode, set in Mega-City 1, showed mexican or latino gang members referring to the Judges as 'La Placa', or The Badge. Judge Dredd is seen re-writing their graffiti to say la placa rifa, or 'the badge rules' (2000AD's translation). Babelfish translates placa as 'board' and doesn't translate rifa, go figure. Gotta get me some of them neural SONY memory sticks... they should re-open their ESP division... grumble
alex4.0
================================Department store BASIC on a demo C64
10 print "K-Mart sucks"
20 goto 10
run, run, run.