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It’s Very Important to Look Up Tonight

Tonight is the ‘Transit of Venus’,

one of the rarest planetary events in our solar system.

You’ll see Venus pass across the sun tonight.

It will look like this.

It will start during these times, and last for 6.5 hours.

(photo credit: University of Toronto)

This will not happen again till you and I are long dead, in 2117.

This phenomenon happens in pairs, separated by more than 100 years. The last one occurred in 2004 and next pair in 2117 and 2125.

I’ve had this event in my calendar for three years.

(Venus and Earth are the same size)

Things are really kicking off up there.  There was a solar eclipse a few weeks ago, yesterday was a full moon, remember when I told you the planets aligned last May?

I subject you to planetary alignment posts from time to time, it’s important.

For such a logical girl, I’m really into this stuff.

Why?

My thinking is: all previous civilizations tracked them, why not ours, we can’t possibly think we’re all there is, that everything you see is all that exists.

The Egyptians dedicated their entire country to constructing buildings to track such things.  Think you’re smarter than them?  We’re not.

That’s why one of my very first Canadian Explorer episodes was about the planets.

Episode 2/80 – Exploring Deep Space aired August 2007

(note: the gentleman in the red shirt, Dr. Terry Bridges, discovered 6 dwarf galaxies in our galaxy, so cool)

My recommendation to you is to make a wish tonight, and make it big – it’s called a dream for a reason.

Further Reading:

Gizmodo

The Star

Official KeriBlog 2012 Prediction here (video) and here

NASA

 

 

Diamonds in Dundas Square

Which building above is the most interesting in Dundas Square?

Cool eh; so inconspicuous and un-assuming.

Fact: diamond guys always want their windows to face north. North provides the best light for inspecting diamonds.

This was filmed inside the above building:

That’s Berge waving at the end, one of Canada’s premiere diamond setters.

This was back in 2009, when I was really into diamonds.

Remember Keith? He was the

“Official Gemologist to ‘The Canadian Explorer'”

Episode # 32/80 – Exploring Diamonds

30 carats of diamonds

Hi Keith!  Welcome back to my blog.

(click here and here and here for the original posts)

And there is your Toronto fact of the day!

Except I will never do a “Toronto Fact of the Day” collection, that sounds horribly boring.

 

 

As IF It’s the Weekend Already

I tweeted a few weeks back: I think time goes faster in a big city, and that’s not good.

HOW is it already June?

Blogging is a good way to track time.  And it seems every month, the below moment comes faster and faster.

This is a screenshot of my file structure on my hard drive.

The “BLOG” folder is stuff for you, the “PHONE” folder is stuff for me.

Yesterday was dedicated to “Life Admin”.

I spent last night gloriously silent on my laptop, type type type, and a bottle of Pellagrino.

Friendly reminder: find me fastest on Twitter, never FB.  I just feed my Tweets into there so something shows up.

Then they move to here.

Why I feel compelled to always show you my desk, I don’t know.  So many desk photos on here, on ‘The Canadian Explorer’… remember that time my desk gave me mold poisoning?

Kay I’ve gotta get moving here.  Have a great Saturday, TTYL