transit of venus

Hello c.l.f.,

I embraced the transit of venus with some enthusiasm, and I wonder whether that enthusiasm got the better of my scientific judgment.

I've been doing napkin calculations after the fact and believe that I must have been engaging in wishful thinking while I was looking at it. I had gone to sears and bought a welder's helmet, because that's all they had, but instead of having #14 glass, it had #10.

Everyone's sold out of #14 after the eclipse, which was unbelievable here. Let's take a look at what we know:

R_s = 109 ! a.u.
Ratio_earth_venus = .95 !comparison of radii
D_v = 0.723 332 AU ! mean distance of venus from sun

I have to be on my other operating system to process that, but I'll do so in fortran. I find many aspects of my latest ubuntu install strange, so I'll get to know it through the language of my instruction: fortran.

Cheers,
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Twain
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