Speaking of Venus…
The best times to look are ingress and egress–that is, when the disk of Venus is entering and exiting the sun. Ingress is between 22:09 and 22:27 UT(~Noontime in Hawaii, 6pm East Coast time) on June 5th; egress occurs between 04:32 and 04:50 UT (~6 hours later).
Now, If any of ya’ll would like to see it live…!
What’s on your mind tonite…?



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Thank you for reminding me of this.
Of course, I’ll forget about it, again, long before 6 p.m east coast time tomorrow.
CT, my friend, I missed the 80′s , having children. Kinda not my taste.
Beautiful weather in The City Beautiful!!!!! I mean, it’s fucking hot but it’s supposed to be. and will get hotter soon.
what it do, CTut
BFL — kisses.
*heh* At least I did my part, M’dear…! ;-)
Aloha, how’s Floridaze doing tonite…?
Me = 90′s. 80′s was alcohol. That’s why I missed them.
It’s still there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=BbsoeoGv-_U
Actually it was relatively cool today. The record for today was 100. Count your blessings or oak trees.
oh, man you’re makin’ me blush, dearie.
kisses – CE
*heh* How’s about the original Shocking Blue version, Christine…? ;-)
wasn’t bad. even when it’s 100, give me that over cloud-to-ground lightning any day.
Hey! I was 14 and I loved it.
I blame the Army for my ’80s-’90s decades’ gap in Civilized Society…! ;-)
She’s Got IT!
I have a place in my heart for that song. But absolutely no room in my head for it. Shooo! I was singing it at work and every woman told me it was “before her time” and fully half of them are full of shit. don’t get the big deal.
Hey pups, Ct, good evening. Looked at the link to the telescope, man is that a wide lens.
wow. that’s long. at least you got ……. out of it. fill in the blank, man.
anybody famous go to McGill
A bientot, Quebecois…! Ya’ll are rawking the ‘Free World’ these days…! ;-)
*heh* My Dad, BFL…! ;-)
CT,
There was a story today, I’ll see if I can find the link, that DoD has developed a telescope that is X times more powerful than Hubble and they’re giving 2 to NASA. Know anything about that?
Here’s the link. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/04/military-gives-nasa-two-space-telescopes-more-powerful-than-hubble/
I luvz me a good storm.
A couple of my friends got doctorates in frisbee and spinal something something. I can’t answer that question, the only time I went there was to be tested for intense effort blood chemestry…
Hey! Bon soir!
We are occupy Quebec and we won’t forget.
it was a discussion last night and i had to go to bed before it was done. don’t know the answer.
Charles Krauthammer.
*heh* Keck just installed the Mosfire… The back story on it was that nobody took that 5 ton weight into any serious consideration until it’d warped the floor, and literally almost fell to the ground 65 ft below…! Scared the BeJeezus outta ‘em…!
all the censorship that was going on at that time it’s kinda surprising, to me, anyway, that they got away with saying “hanky panky.”
That’s a big oopsie.
How could that possibly happen? It seems like such an elementary issue that should be one of the first items to take care of.
i just responded to myself. dumb-as-dogshit.
you’re shitting me. was that the answer last night (question mark key is busted)
One would think, M’dear…! ;-)
I just scrolled down the list in my link and that was the first name I recognized. Gotta say I wasn’t paying a lot of attention as I’m listening to wnyc on another window.
So sorry for that, seems he was raised in Montreal…
man, i gotta hit the hay. good to see all you people. as always.
*heh* School’s Out…
When I got paid to leave where I was working, I started storing a lot of paper in my attic. I was instantly warned by a friend that paper weighs a lot.
The P.S. to that story is that, 12 years later, I’m throwing it all out. Feel as if the house has risen 2″ up from its foundations and I’m only about half done.
did not know that. hmmm. no apologies necessary. not your fault.
Pleasant dreams, BFL…!
thanks. i’ll try.
Everyone has to be raised somewhere.
We were talking about Occupy Buffalo, my childhood home town, on a thread in the last week or two, and a troll expressed his extreme sympathy for my misfortune. Guessing he needs to attend a Dale Carnegie course.
Dayam, M’dear…! Just think how many trees ya saved since ya ‘retired’…? ;-)
Not only saved the trees that would have gone into the paper product, but have planted a lot. Doing penance for past sins. Raised R.C., turned atheist at age 13. Think my paper/tree project is a bit morally upscale from 5 Our Fathers and 10 Hail Marys.
*heh* As a Baha’i, I certainly forgive your past sins, M’dear…! ;-)
Found this a few minutes back. The guy speaks french to his mom, and takes over the paper at McGill. Even french moms raise psychopaths.
Fox On The Run…
Hiya CT, firegods
The quote from your link
Even french moms raise psychopaths…
*heh* There’s plenty to choose from…! ;-)
Aloha, PPD…!
Well, thanks, but as an atheist, any religious sanction or condemnation has little influence.
I think I asked you this before, but I don’t remember your answer. If you don’t mind my asking you again, why are you Baha’i, such a rare religion? Raised to it, found it appealing for other reasons, or something else?
We had our 42 second evening of pots and pans protest tonight. Little known fact is that we walk really fast, and will easily walk 8, 9 miles in a few hours. Did these a week and a half ago. I never bring my big camera to walks downtown, police are going for the big lenses…
Some people think every French person is a psychopath. Au contraire, if reincarnation is a possibility, I want to come back as a French woman.
Are police as thuggish in Montreal as they are in NYC?
So Venus will be casting her shadow tomorrow, eh?
To switch subjects (got BBC radio going on another window) does anyone else find Diamond Jubilee to be silly as hell?
Oh yes, two kids have lost eyes with rubber bullet and noise making grenade, they’ve kettled pacific protesters, I’ve been peepr sprayed, wlk through clouds of Tear gas. More like Oakland than New-York. Fully militarized and nasty. By the way, the worst offender was a french speaking woman cop…
Right On, Quebecois…! Awesome job…! 8-)
My new fave subject: alpha females. Hypothesis is that they’re worse than alpha males.
ROFLMAO.
Vatican just condemned book written by a nun that, among other subjects of deep moral consideration, thought that masturbation was OK.
I concur, they’re even more ruthless, by nurture…! ;-)
It’s the only way to get to the top of the mountain.
Speaking of which, Pelosi sez Hillary’s best hope of Ds in 2012. Gah.
Ya know I coughed up a hairball when I’d heard that buffoonery…! Did you catch this similar ‘hairball’…? From earlier today, Ban Ki Moon and King Abdullah… “The Secretary-General thanked the King for Saudi Arabia’s support for Yemen’s transition process.” Really…?
Blankie Moon is a U.S.
toolfool.I am using avoidance as a coping technique in more & more areas. I just can’t bear what’s going on any more.
On BBC, “footballers” (soccer players in U.S.ian) are taking painkillers prophylactically and playing thru pain. What a surprise.
Prince Phillip is suffering from a bladder infection.
It took him all this time to contract it?
Interestingly I watched the coronation on TV. I was 9, it was in B&W, and I remember it.
I went to my Grandparents’ Diamond Jubilee wearing a kilt when I was about 9 yrs old…! ;-)
That sounds like a little more fun. Personal, in any event.
*heh* I still remember how drafty that kilt was…! ;-)
One of the judges in Anders Breivik trial was caught on camera playing solitaire on his computer for about 15 minutes.
Breivik is gonna occupy one of those inner circles of Hell, that Dante wrote about…!
On a serious note, Breivik is only shortly to the right of the U.S. Rs. Women getting vote is large part of problem, as it feminized men is one of his causes that struck me. He tried to get extreme Islamist to testify to extreme danger of feminism, but Islamist demurred under circumstances.
That is a prevalent problem within the extremes of each of the three major Abrahamic Faiths, Women are deemed the inferior sex by decree…! 8-(
Some of the coolest women I know are nuns.
Women are inferior in every modern society, not just Abrahamist religions.
Us lil wimmin juss look on from the outside with pity for the poor uterus envying guys.
Like those soft big soled lace shoes, huh? Gotta be careful of those shoe fetishes. Might not work out how you think.
Aloha, spocko…! Always a pleasure…! ;-)
…with pity for the poor uterus envying guys. Poor little fellers…! ;-)
One of my late-in-life insights. It’s not penis envy, but much more obvious opposite.
Question. If you heard that there was a project underway to rip out 7 acres of natural grass in Golden Gate Park and replace it with synthetic turf for soccer playing, would that make you upset?
What if you found out the people who are doing it say they are doIng it to help children play soccer with out tripping on gopher holes because the city doesn’t maintain the fields.
What if 100′s of adorable kids say they just want to get out and exercise and artificial turf is better to play on than grass especially in the rain.
How do you compete against adorable kids in soccer uniforms?
Sad that humanity may not be around long enough to be matriarchal again. That could be interesting.
What?
How much effort does it take for parents to fill gopher holes?
Last I saw a nun (a year ago), the only recognizable remnant of what I knew from a half century ago, was that she wore the same shoes.
I’d say the astro-turfers need to realize the basic fact that astroturf causes more daily wear-and-tear, on our youth, than any rain-soaked grass field…! 8-(
Aloha, homeroid, I’m all for some Amazonian action…! ;-)
From what i have read. Most social structures were matriarchal before the written word. Men used writing as a way of dominance,it never stopped from there. Extrapolate to today. And HEY Tut.
Smells like Teen Spirit…
The Jean Genie…
Calling BS. HTF does anyone know wtf was going on before the written word. And how convenient that it was entirely opposite to everything human species that has gone on after the written word.
Seems like real bogus BS.
With that typed, gonna retire for the night.
Be well.
Hawai’i has an extensive Oral history, M’dear…! ;-)
Sweet dreams, eCAHN…!
More on the space telescopes, which were originally intended as super-spy machines:
https://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/5573/
Still more at the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/science/space/repurposed-telescope-may-explore-secrets-of-dark-energy.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
5.15…
*heh* I Can See For Miles…
Pleasant dreams ya’ll…! Newtonusr has the lln honors tomorrow nite, hopefully, Suz will be back in the saddle for Weds. nite…! Aloha Oe…! *g*
eCHAN when you wake ,should you read this, you might check this out as a start to a large subject.http://www.alphabetvsgoddess.com/
Aujourd’ui, je suis Quebecois aussi! Solidarite!
Actually Shocking Blue did the original song back in 1969 as I recall.