SuperTaz Posted June 5, 2012 Posted June 5, 2012 Watch the planet Venus move in front of the sun Live: http://www.weather.com/news/venus-skywatchers-20120605 http://news.yahoo.com/filtered-glasses-look-dot-slowly-moving-across-sun-210011171.html http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/05/how-to-safely-watch-transit-venus-on-tuesday/?intcmp=features The next time this will happen will be in the year 2117. So, get out your telescopes with solar filters and watch it. Quote
Rabidraccoon Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 I'll catch it next time. Jot it on my calendar. I still have to get a filter for my telescope. I don't use it much. Easier to use my 15x70 Binoculars. No set up. Good for planetary observations. Quote
stabak Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 I'll catch it next time. what you think how old you will become ? next Venus Transit will be 11. December 2117 Quote
Moron4 Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 europeans are hating, all we could see were clouds. Quote
ajnl Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 europeans are hating, all we could see were clouds. yeah! what bs.... . Quote
Moron4 Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 hey look it's a black disk passing a bright bigger disk, just amazing! /sarcasm ftw Quote
Wifestein Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 [media=] [/media] again.. our universe is SOOOO COOOL Amazing video :] Quote
beedub Posted June 10, 2012 Posted June 10, 2012 Cool video. I did not catch the event live, I will meet up with Raccoon for the next one. Quote
Rabidraccoon Posted June 12, 2012 Posted June 12, 2012 I'll only be 151. That's not that old. I'll cut out a few cheeseburgers to increase my odds of hitting 150. From Wikipedia: The longest-living person whose dates of birth and death were verified to the modern norms of Guinness World Records and the Gerontology Research Group was Jeanne Calment, a French woman who lived to 122. The maximum (recorded) life span for humans has increased from 103 in 1798 to 110 years in 1898, 115 years in 1990, and 122.45 years since Calment's death in 1997 (See List of the verified oldest people and List of verified supercentenarians who died before 1980.), among steady improvements in overall life expectancy. Reduction of infant mortality has accounted for most of this increased average longevity, but since the 1960s mortality rates among those over 80 years have decreased by about 1.5% per year. "The progress being made in lengthening lifespans and postponing senescence is entirely due to medical and public-health efforts, rising standards of living, better education, healthier nutrition and more salubrious lifestyles."[3] Animal studies suggest that further lengthening of human lifespan could be achieved through "calorie restriction mimetic" drugs or by directly reducing food consumption. Although calorie restriction has not been proven to extend the maximum human life span, as of 2006, results in ongoing primate studies are promising.[4] No fixed theoretical limit to human longevity is apparent today.[5] "A fundamental question in aging research is whether humans and other species possess an immutable life-span limit."[6] "The assumption that the maximum human life span is fixed has been justified, [but] is invalid in a number of animal models and ... may become invalid for humans as well."[7] Studies in the biodemography of human longevity indicate a late-life mortality deceleration law: that death rates level off at advanced ages to a late-life mortality plateau. That is, there is no fixed upper limit to human longevity, or fixed maximal human lifespan.[8] This law was first quantified in 1939, when researchers found that the one-year probability of death at advanced age asymptotically approaches a limit of 44% for women and 54% for men.[9]. Quote
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