Alert to Saturn if you have a clear sky - shining bright & eclipse

[peacetalksforall]

Someone alerted me to this (but no clear skies here). An accompanying message (an interpretation) is interesting for we DUers.

"Occultation of Saturn

Watch the Moon tonight*. Below and to its left, Saturn is shining so brightly that, if you had a small telescope or some binoculars and a very steady hand, you could pick out its rings and maybe even see some of its satellites. Stay up late enough (UK 2 - 3am GMT) and you may catch Saturn slowly vanishing behind the Moon, reappearing some 20 minutes later. Symbolically, this speaks of profound emotions proving strong enough to overcome all obstacles. It also suggests that people are now more powerful than politicians and that governments may soon abandon more unpopular policies."

http://www.cainer.com

[951-Riverside]

1. Thats not possible

Everyone knows God and Heaven is up there. :sarcasm:

[CBGLuthier]

2. nothing like a bullshit non sequiter

What is it with some people on DU who view every single god damned post as an excuse to slam home their favorite agenda.

The signal to noise ratio here has gotten ridiculous.

I think I shall start another DU vacation now. Maybe some day the grownups will return.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. Yup. Pretty Pathetic, Ain't It.

[951-Riverside]

5. @notmypresident

What is it with some people on DU who view every single god damned post as an excuse to slam home their favorite agenda.

:rofl: "Oh No! He's viewing posts and replying to them, stop that man!"

<---- Free Republic is that way. :eyes:

[LSK]

6. I thought it was a simple joke

:shrug:

[PVnRT]

10. Try actually reading the body of the post

Including the :sarcasm: icon.

Must be one of the howler monkeys from GD.

[Cerridwen]

3. Thanks for the alert.

As to the "signal to noise ratio" around here:

I always envision DU as a huge cocktail party
little groups here and there discussing various issues
partiers going from group to group to discuss what interests them
And, invariably, someone will walk into the middle of a group - out of nowhere
drop their drawers and piss in the middle of the group (a little like "Megan" in the Exorcist)

The visual helps me to keep my sense of humor...sometimes.

I shared it with you in case it might make you *giggle*, too.

:hi:

In the meantime, I'm gonna go click your link and read up a bit.

Hang in there, we're not all "pissers" LOL


edit to add: phooey. it appears I won't be able to see this waaaaay over here in the U.S. northwest *sigh*

but I did find a cool link of Major Astronomical Events for 2007

[peacetalksforall]

9. I look for every little tidbit that lifts me up ... from a new song

such as the one someone alerted us to - by Kris Kristofferson - to the youtube rescue of horses - to the appearance of Joe Conason on WJ this morning - from all the messages that remind us to hang on to our sanity.

I think about things that make me sick to my stomach like the firing of the Judges. I think about the images of the mold on the walls in a dump where they put our kids.

I think about rendition and the suffering of mankind caused by our leaders.

So I look for lifts.

I enjoyed thinking about what some might see tonight with a household telescope - especially the rings. I like hard facts of respectable science as much as anyone - but I like to think that I can accept stuff from non-scientific or half scinetific posts.

I think about what I've read so far about all the areas of secretive U.S. Government experiments into psy-ops, hallucinatory and dengerous drugs, implants, injections - to see what happens and how people can be controlled? Including Iraq War 1 stuff. Now, I'm not sure if the people conducting these experiments are credentialed scientists, but it is less honorable than the work of an astrologer.

I think about the reports of the junkyard in the sky from satellites being blown up or discarded earth stuff.

I think about friends who are being laid off faster and faster because their job of training their Indian replacement is complete.

I think that perhaps if I got a lift from the knowledge of the eclipse and a fun interpretation of that eclispse - perhaps someone else would.

I hope there are a few of us. Thanks for writing.

[Kelly Rupert]

7. Please don't get your astrology in my astronomy. n/t

[Bill McBlueState]

8. symbolically, it speaks to whatever you want it to speak to

It's fascinating and beautiful to watch the moon occult a planet. Thanks for the notice!

But beyond the physics of the event, any additional meaning you want to read into it is entirely up to the observer. If someone thinks it says something about politics, they're free to believe that, but there's no evidence to place that interpretation above any other. That's why I like to stick to what can be observed -- that part is beautiful on its own.