A CNN blog post, Star-crossed: how to see Venus cross the sun, came out detailing an event that won't happen again for hundreds of years. However, people can only see it without damaging their eyes though the use of welding goggles. For more go to:http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/05/star-crossed-how-to-see-venus-cross-the-sun/?hpt=hp_c1 .
In a way I was tempted to just go on youtube some time and watch it. We see one of these events every year it seems. In fact, there is some rare event of a lifetime happening every day... so unless our lifetime is only a day long I'd think that they were making a small deal about all this. But, now that I think about it, by collecting such rare events and experiencing them, you could become one of those cool old guys that always has some story to tell. Sure, people might go on and on about how marvelous or enchanting the celestial event was that so happened to grace their vision... but that really isn't true. A black dot on the sun, I think I'll make something more out of it than it really is, and I'll tell the story to some youngster while he chews his bubble gum. Oh, and if you live in Alaska, you get to stare at it ALL DAY!
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