by thebeige ( 2555996 ) writes: The correct term is actually Gay Homo Fag! Don't you watch =3.
by tverbeek ( 457094 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @03:38PM (#40159087)
by tverbeek ( 457094 ) writes: Er.... "space" is "another place".
by tverbeek ( 457094 ) writes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime [wikipedia.org]
by dmbasso ( 1052166 ) writes: I hope I'll be able to see the next transit with my naked cyber-eye.
by slew ( 2918 ) writes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Indigenous_Australians [wikipedia.org], http://www.crystalinks.com/aboriginals.html [crystalinks.com]The history of Indigenous Australians is thought to have spanned 40000 to 45000 years, although some estimates have put the figure at up to 80 000 years before European settlement.
by FreshlyShornBalls ( 849004 ) writes: Bah. This sounds like the nonsense twenty years ago about how evil Christopher Columbus was.
by noh8rz3 ( 2593935 ) writes: The linked article was interesting, but it didn't cover the most important question - what should I look for in the transit, and why should I be excited about it? I saw the solar eclipse from griffith observatory in LA, and it was awesome. Got some amazing pics of the sun being blotted out. But this sounds like it will just be a little blip on the sun. Will there be an opportunity for interesting pictures?
by Yvan256 ( 722131 ) writes: So what you're saying is that the arrival of the British turned their world upside-down?
by waimate ( 147056 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @05:37PM (#40160797)
by jrumney ( 197329 ) writes: Before Cook, Australia was part of that great continent they expected to find. Abel Tasman's maps, which Cook was using, showed parts of the West Coast of Australia, the East Coast of New Zealand, and a big unknown in between.
by Palamos ( 1379347 ) writes: I think that's grossly unfair, they also invented only drinking a little bit but getting very drunk indeed.
by argStyopa ( 232550 ) writes: Yeah, medicine, nutrition, agriculture, which have all ended up in at least doubling life expectancy, lowering childhood mortality, etc. it's horrible what the modern world has done for Aborigines. Practically torture.I'm sure they'd all be rather living as subsistence hunter-gatherers like the tribes in the jungles of Paupua, New Guinea.What the heck have the Romans ever done for us?We seem to repeatedly fail to distinguish the difference between individual, personal tragedy (which has no doubt been suffe Re:
by Rei ( 128717 ) writes: While that's sort of a flamebait topic, there is at least some truth to the concept. I saw an interview with some subsistence farmers once for whom Bono had been campaigning to "save their indigenous lifestyle" or something like that. And their take on it was, what you call a lifestyle, we call poverty.It should be up to each culture to decide what elements of modern life they want to incorporate and which elements of their traditional life they want to preserve. Now, as for what the Aboriginees think of Re:
by Palamos ( 1379347 ) writes: I think that there are few that would suggest that the 'west' has done a lot of good but there are equally few that would suggest that in the process we've also done a lot of harm. On balance it's been good but it must have been a bugger at the time!
by Palamos ( 1379347 ) writes: Sorry, I meant to say ...that in the process we've not done any harm.
by Hognoxious ( 631665 ) writes: Like pr0n?
by Gilmoure ( 18428 ) writes: And cars.
by mikecase ( 1991782 ) writes: While you can surely see more detail in astronomy (as well as microscopy) photos, the experience just isn't the same. For me and my family, watching the transit through my safely filtered binoculars is much more exciting that simply browsing through the results of a Google image search for '2004 Venus Transit.' For my kids especially, who live in a world full of digital experiences, seeing something significant in person is not to be missed.
by sconeu ( 64226 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @04:26PM (#40159863)
by noh8rz3 ( 2593935 ) writes: dude, in LA you can ride metrolink, two subway lines, three light rail lines, and dozens of bus lines. Where are you going to/from? You mean city of LA, or bumfudge outlying town in LA county?
by sconeu ( 64226 ) writes: LA Proper. West Valley. And I don't want to go downtown, I want to go to the West Side.
by noh8rz3 ( 2593935 ) writes: metro rapid bus lines shoots down sepulveda & 405 from northridge to ucla and beyond. there's a light rail extension under construction that will extend the expo line from culver city to colorodo and fourth street in santa monica. this is a straight shot from downtown. speaking of downtown, metro orange line and metrolink orange line straight shot from west valley to downtown. see, there are plenty of options.
by sconeu ( 64226 ) writes: And dude, please read the footnote, since it OBVIOUSLY applies to you!!!!!!
by sdguero ( 1112795 ) writes: Yeah. LA should build more trains for nobody to use...
by Impy the Impiuos Imp ( 442658 ) writes: > how to observe this (most likely) last-in-a-lifetime event.2117 is the next one.Claire from Six Feet Under lived to 102 and she missed it by 30 years!
by mybecq ( 131456 ) writes: By far the best simulator (with details) local to your own timezone, is the one by SunAeon [sunaeon.com].
by scharkalvin ( 72228 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @05:47PM (#40160891)
by jschen ( 1249578 ) writes: In case anyone is looking for the aforementioned Youtube video of the Sousa march: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rNQFUqt49Q [youtube.com]
by avyan ( 2651477 ) writes: I don't wanna miss this....!
by Mito111 ( 2653589 ) writes: simulation on how you can see transit:
by HedRat ( 613308 ) writes: Only women watch the transit of Venus. Men watch the transit of Mars.
by thebeige ( 2555996 ) writes: The correct term is actually Gay Homo Fag! Don't you watch =3.
by tverbeek ( 457094 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @03:38PM (#40159087)
by tverbeek ( 457094 ) writes: Er.... "space" is "another place".
by tverbeek ( 457094 ) writes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime [wikipedia.org]
by dmbasso ( 1052166 ) writes: I hope I'll be able to see the next transit with my naked cyber-eye.
by slew ( 2918 ) writes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Indigenous_Australians [wikipedia.org], http://www.crystalinks.com/aboriginals.html [crystalinks.com]The history of Indigenous Australians is thought to have spanned 40000 to 45000 years, although some estimates have put the figure at up to 80 000 years before European settlement.
by FreshlyShornBalls ( 849004 ) writes: Bah. This sounds like the nonsense twenty years ago about how evil Christopher Columbus was.
by noh8rz3 ( 2593935 ) writes: The linked article was interesting, but it didn't cover the most important question - what should I look for in the transit, and why should I be excited about it? I saw the solar eclipse from griffith observatory in LA, and it was awesome. Got some amazing pics of the sun being blotted out. But this sounds like it will just be a little blip on the sun. Will there be an opportunity for interesting pictures?
by Yvan256 ( 722131 ) writes: So what you're saying is that the arrival of the British turned their world upside-down?
by waimate ( 147056 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @05:37PM (#40160797)
by jrumney ( 197329 ) writes: Before Cook, Australia was part of that great continent they expected to find. Abel Tasman's maps, which Cook was using, showed parts of the West Coast of Australia, the East Coast of New Zealand, and a big unknown in between.
by Palamos ( 1379347 ) writes: I think that's grossly unfair, they also invented only drinking a little bit but getting very drunk indeed.
by argStyopa ( 232550 ) writes: Yeah, medicine, nutrition, agriculture, which have all ended up in at least doubling life expectancy, lowering childhood mortality, etc. it's horrible what the modern world has done for Aborigines. Practically torture.I'm sure they'd all be rather living as subsistence hunter-gatherers like the tribes in the jungles of Paupua, New Guinea.What the heck have the Romans ever done for us?We seem to repeatedly fail to distinguish the difference between individual, personal tragedy (which has no doubt been suffe Re:
by Rei ( 128717 ) writes: While that's sort of a flamebait topic, there is at least some truth to the concept. I saw an interview with some subsistence farmers once for whom Bono had been campaigning to "save their indigenous lifestyle" or something like that. And their take on it was, what you call a lifestyle, we call poverty.It should be up to each culture to decide what elements of modern life they want to incorporate an
d which elements of their traditional life they want to preserve. Now, as for what the Aboriginees think of Re:
by Palamos ( 1379347 ) writes: I think that there are few that would suggest that the 'west' has done a lot of good but there are equally few that would suggest that in the process we've also done a lot of harm. On balance it's been good but it must have been a bugger at the time!
by Palamos ( 1379347 ) writes: Sorry, I meant to say ...that in the process we've not done any harm.
by Hognoxious ( 631665 ) writes: Like pr0n?
by Gilmoure ( 18428 ) writes: And cars.
by mikecase ( 1991782 ) writes: While you can surely see more detail in astronomy (as well as microscopy) photos, the experience just isn't the same. For me and my family, watching the transit through my safely filtered binoculars is much more exciting that simply browsing through the results of a Google image search for '2004 Venus Transit.' For my kids especially, who live in a world full of digital experiences, seeing something significant in person is not to be missed.
by sconeu ( 64226 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @04:26PM (#40159863)
by noh8rz3 ( 2593935 ) writes: dude, in LA you can ride metrolink, two subway lines, three light rail lines, and dozens of bus lines. Where are you going to/from? You mean city of LA, or bumfudge outlying town in LA county?
by sconeu ( 64226 ) writes: LA Proper. West Valley. And I don't want to go downtown, I want to go to the West Side.
by noh8rz3 ( 2593935 ) writes: metro rapid bus lines shoots down sepulveda & 405 from northridge to ucla and beyond. there's a light rail extension under construction that will extend the expo line from culver city to colorodo and fourth street in santa monica. this is a straight shot from downtown. speaking of downtown, metro orange line and metrolink orange line straight shot from west valley to downtown. see, there are plenty of options.
by sconeu ( 64226 ) writes: And dude, please read the footnote, since it OBVIOUSLY applies to you!!!!!!
by sdguero ( 1112795 ) writes: Yeah. LA should build more trains for nobody to use...
by Impy the Impiuos Imp ( 442658 ) writes: > how to observe this (most likely) last-in-a-lifetime event.2117 is the next one.Claire from Six Feet Under lived to 102 and she missed it by 30 years!
by mybecq ( 131456 ) writes: By far the best simulator (with details) local to your own timezone, is the one by SunAeon [sunaeon.com].
by scharkalvin ( 72228 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @05:47PM (#40160891)
by jschen ( 1249578 ) writes: In case anyone is looking for the aforementioned Youtube video of the Sousa march: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rNQFUqt49Q [youtube.com]
by avyan ( 2651477 ) writes: I don't wanna miss this....!
by Mito111 ( 2653589 ) writes: simulation on how you can see transit:
by HedRat ( 613308 ) writes: Only women watch the transit of Venus. Men watch the transit of Mars.