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Awesome!!  

The transit of Venus across the face of the sun . . . an event that won't happen again until 2117!

Check out - http://sunearthday.gsfc.nasa.gov/webcasts/nasaedge/

Followup - Venus makes rare trek across Sun - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17745366

I saw the Horizon program on BBC four, then didn't get up until 0600hrs.

It was cloudy anyway.

Quote from: meekon5 on June 06, 2012, 11:03:51 AM
I saw the Horizon program on BBC four, then didn't get up until 0600hrs.

It was cloudy anyway.

Awesome stuff, M5. It amazes me how close it appears to come to the sun. It is still quite a long ways from it, but still looks amazing to see. Almost a flashback, mang!

QuoteI saw the Horizon program on BBC four, then didn't get up until 0600hrs.

I watched the sexed up Horizon programme last night...Three fit as fuck lady scientists! Went to bed dreaming of venus....or was it Athena?

Anyhoo woke up at 7

Peace

Sounds like science to me!

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on June 06, 2012, 07:45:19 PM
Sounds like science to me!

Sounds like witchcraft to me!

Quote from: meekon5 on June 07, 2012, 05:25:35 AM

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on June 06, 2012, 07:45:19 PM
Sounds like science to me!

Sounds like witchcraft to me!

The line between the two is sometimes blurry. 

I saw a bit of that program. How someone realised you can work out the size of the solar system by using the shift in vision from left to right eye just blows my mind.

Quote from: milnie on June 07, 2012, 04:21:03 PM
I saw a bit of that program. How someone realised you can work out the size of the solar system by using the shift in vision from left to right eye just blows my mind.

How about the dude that worked out the diameter of the earth using a stick, the sun's shadow from the stick, a dude who was a gopher for him and some slick trignometrically?

Flash back!! - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_calculated_the_circumference_of_the_earth_trignometrically

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on June 07, 2012, 07:40:02 PM

Quote from: milnie on June 07, 2012, 04:21:03 PM
I saw a bit of that program. How someone realised you can work out the size of the solar system by using the shift in vision from left to right eye just blows my mind.

How about the dude that worked out the diameter of the earth using a stick, the sun's shadow from the stick, a dude who was a gopher for him and some slick trignometrically?

Flash back!! - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_calculated_the_circumference_of_the_earth_trignometrically

Trigonometry, bloody Greeks and their maths.

Quote from: meekon5 on June 08, 2012, 10:47:40 AM

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on June 07, 2012, 07:40:02 PM

Quote from: milnie on June 07, 2012, 04:21:03 PM
I saw a bit of that program. How someone realised you can work out the size of the solar system by using the shift in vision from left to right eye just blows my mind.

How about the dude that worked out the diameter of the earth using a stick, the sun's shadow from the stick, a dude who was a gopher for him and some slick trignometrically?

Flash back!! - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_calculated_the_circumference_of_the_earth_trignometrically

Trigonometry, bloody Greeks and their maths.

Ya know what threw the Greeks into a tizzy?....Nothing!
The concept of Zero really got their panties in a knot!

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea:
http://www.freebooknotes.com/summaries-analysis/zero-the-biography-of-a-dangerous-idea/
Also
http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/77013.html

"Zero" drove them nuts! What the hell is "zero;" how can you have a number that represents fucking nothing?! ...they asked!

Calculate this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_%28number%29#Greeks_and_Romans

Records show that the ancient Greeks seemed unsure about the status of zero as a number. They asked themselves, "How can nothing be something?", leading to philosophical and, by the Medieval period, religious arguments about the nature and existence of zero and the vacuum. The paradoxes of Zeno of Elea depend in large part on the uncertain interpretation of zero.



...Am I wrong, is the dude in the center flipping off someone? Is he saying "FUCK ZERO!"

Quote from: meekon5 on June 08, 2012, 10:47:40 AM

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on June 07, 2012, 07:40:02 PM

Quote from: milnie on June 07, 2012, 04:21:03 PM
I saw a bit of that program. How someone realised you can work out the size of the solar system by using the shift in vision from left to right eye just blows my mind.

How about the dude that worked out the diameter of the earth using a stick, the sun's shadow from the stick, a dude who was a gopher for him and some slick trignometrically?

Flash back!! - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_calculated_the_circumference_of_the_earth_trignometrically

Trigonometry, bloody Greeks and their maths.

Yes, true, but they did have good taste in females gods; vagina didn't seem to make them uncomfortable.

Say what you like about the Greeks...at least they had an Eros...