Live NASA Webcast of Venus Solar Transit

[Dubslow]

http://venustransit.nasa.gov/transitofvenus/

For those of us who don't have safety gear.

It starts at 12:04 UTC-10 (HST), 17:04 UTC-5 (CDT), which is of course 22:04 UTC. (That's about 6 minutes from now.)

[jasong]

Not to be an RD Silverman or anything, but...

OMG, there's a black circle transiting the sun that happens to be Venus.

Of course, this is why Youtube keeps everything, because you never really know what people want to see.

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by jasong

Not to be an RD Silverman or anything, but...

No chance of that in your case -- except perhaps in the "nuisance" aspect. RDS at least had some positive contributions to help counterbalance the annoyance.

OMG, there's a black circle transiting the sun that happens to be Venus.

Show us the detailed mathematics needed to predict such transits to the minute, then you get to prate.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

No chance of that in your case -- except perhaps in the "nuisance" aspect. RDS at least had some positive contributions to help counterbalance the annoyance.

Ooh! What's new, pussy cat?

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by xilman

Ooh! What's new, pussy cat?

I didn't say 'entirely counterbalance' ... in RDS's case the pluses bought him way more indulgence of his bad behavior than anyone else I can think of. Anyone not providing major positives and engaging in such persistent, repeated bullying and harassment would have been banned instantly, without a second thought. And as you know I was with you in the "warn and hope he learns self-control" camp until very recently. But this is not the place to rehash that discussion.

Jasong is also a rather different case in that is he is merely persistently annoying, AFAIK he does not bully other forum members into leaving. (He may annoy them into doing so, but I think the odds of that are less, and in any event that is an offense involving lower culpability).