Wanna see my Venus?

[Company Man]

Last chance for a few decades or ten.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=493231

[Company Man]

All you nerds and no response........




I will remember this.

[Pandorag]

but... but... but... it'll only happen on June 6th!!! What more can we say? When we see it, you'll be the first to know...

 

[deezelboy]

There's absolutely no sodding way I'm getting up at four in the morning and trudging up a hill to see Venus in transit.  Even without the knowledge that it'll be summer and thus overcast with a 95% chance of rain!

[Neltharion]

Some other chump will take photos and I will go "Cool Story Bro" and then go back to counting the fucks I give.


Which wont take very long.


Nah I'm kidding ya.



not really 

[Company Man]

Some other chump will take photos and I will go "Cool Story Bro" and then go back to counting the fucks I give.

FUNNY STORY, BRO!

No really, I LOL'ed.

Kinda let down though. A board about a piece of cinematic SciFi brilliance, and no one gives a fuck about seeing Venus, LIVE!

I expected  more around here.

I will go see it. Likelly go blind. Then I can say I went blind from watching Venus and looking at the sun, sans from jacking off and beating my dolphin to death nightly for years.

Or, I will get drunkand forget... it is on June 6 th afterall...

[deezelboy]

Kinda let down though. A board about a piece of cinematic SciFi brilliance, and no one gives a fuck about seeing Venus, LIVE!

Hey, I see Venus, LIVE!, plenty of nights. But I'm always kinda reluctant to see the sun at dawn, partial transit or not.

[Pandorag]

It's difficult to share my thouhts and sights on a forum board. It's really cold here, but we have the clearest sky. We see a lot with the naked eye: Saturn is visible, like, every night!

Come on over and make snow angels while looking at the sky, then we can talk "astronomy".

Can you even see the sky in China?  I think it's way too bright with artificial light and way too polluted for you to worry for your eyes when looking at the sun. 

[Company Man]

Mmm...snow angels.

Yes we can see the sun and the sky in Shanghai. Some days are much better than others of course.

On June 6th I might be at home. Or in July more likely. Of course come June 6th I might be in the Sudan working private security there, guarding Chinese workers in the work compounds. I,d rather not, but I go where the dollars are.

But yes, today for example the sunshine is brilliant.

[Ripley Clone 8]

so what is exactly taking place on June 6th lol?

[Company Man]

so what is exactly taking place on June 6th lol?

The invasion of Normandy beach, and Omaha.

Pay attention much?

[SM]

Ripley blew up the Nostromo on June the 6th.

(Link didn't work for me)

[Company Man]

Ripley blew up the Nostromo on June the 6th.

(Link didn't work for me)

Sorry abourt that, it is a Shanghai Daily newspaper article on Venus transiting across the sun on June 6th. Am sure you can find it anywhere. I read the China and Shanghai Daily's everyday, so my news is limited.

Other than what I peruse on the netwebz. But I like old fashioned newspaper ink staining my fingers in the morning.

[Company Man]

Here is a neater and more up-to-date bit about it SM, and everyone else.

http://www.transitofvenus.org/

[BishopIII]

Sounds interesting! But I have no optical filters with which I can look at the sun. Oh well, I see Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn most nights lately (in that order, from west to east), so it's been a good winter, planetwise! I need to save for a better telescope.