A Saint Bernard!
Well I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m going to settle this scientifical-like. I’m going to stare at the sun all day “Saturnday” [sub]TM[/sub] (and well into the night, just to be sure). I’ll report on what I see.
Good to see that the books are available again, in some form.
The lines I quote (with accompanying drawings) are on page 18 of Science Made Stupid. Worth seeing for the “parts of the eclipse” they label.
Ah, so this conjunction or occultation or whatever it is is only visible in Canada?
<hijack> That book is brilliant! I cherish my 25-year-old copy and can’t wait until my kids learn enough science to get the jokes. Nice to know it’s available online though.</hijack>
Oh no he di’nt!
And after drinking a two-four of beer and eating five kilograms of poutine.
Here’s a screencap of the page before alteration
St. Bernard is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Curse you, FordPrefect! Curse you to Belgium!!!
They do not even own up there having been a correction on the current page. A little too embarrassed I guess.
Wouldn’t it be cool if Saturn was between the Earth and the Sun? You could have some kind of monster eclipse with the Sun back-lighting the rings.
Just before the tidal forces rip apart our way of life. I’ll bring the popcorn.
But they didn’t change the URL of the current page, which contains the text “saturn-will-be-directly-between-earth-and-the-sun-this-weekend”:
http://thespacereporter.com/2014/05/saturn-will-be-directly-between-earth-and-the-sun-this-weekend/
Back in 1988 the Boston Globe, on its Astronomy of the Day feature showed the sky several days into the future, on February 29, 30, and 31st.
Sure it does. That’s when you can land on it.
Maybe not Saturn, but Uranus definitely resides between the Earth and the Sun from time to time.
Actually, I’d be kind of worried about the whole “Saturn, 8.9 AU away from us, still being between us and the Sun” because, like, where the holy astronomical fuck would we have to be?
OMG the aliens came and exchanged our orbit for Saturn’s! Our atmosphere is fluttering down as little frozen gas snowflakes right now!
But that probably would solve global warming.
Oh man, I didn’t even notice it was in the URL itself. Beautiful.
It’s a Saturnalia miracle!
eh, already said.