Transit of Venus Viewing Party at NASA Goddard

Posted by Ben Gross, June 5, 2012 at 05:29 pm

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Join experts from NASA to watch a rare event - the Transit of Venus, when Venus visibly passes in front of the sun.

Most recently, it occured in 2004, but if you miss tonight's event, you're not likely to see the next iteration in 2117!

With free activites for all ages, the NASA Goddard Visitor's Center Venus in Transit viewing party promises to be a good time for all!

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Betsy Marks Delaney June 12, 2013 at 12:08 pm

Considering the sorry state of sex education in schools today and parental reluctance for teaching…Read More anything but abstinence (if they teach anything at all), I'd suggest that the sale shouldn't even be questioned. When we decide education means more than just saying "no," when boys and men learn that it's as much their responsibility as women's to avoid unprotected sex and that violence against women is wrong, and when we teach consequences along with abstinence, then perhaps the pill won't be necessary. I don't see that day coming for a long, long time. Now, if the course "Our Whole Lives" taught by Unitarian Universalists became standard education in every school, perhaps we wouldn't need emergency contraception. Education (knowledge) is power.

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Pachacutec June 12, 2013 at 02:16 pm

Betsy, I agree with a lot of your post; many parents seem to feel that if they tell their children…Read More about sex, it's the same as telling them to go out and do it. I'm willing to bet that more young people get into trouble by ignorance than by knowledge. (and I haven't read the text that you mentioned but yes, education/knowledge IS power).

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Peggy Anne June 12, 2013 at 02:57 pm

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