"oriel36" wrote in message
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On Monday, July 21, 2014 12:33:26 AM UTC+1, palsing wrote:
On Sunday, July 20, 2014 2:41:39 AM UTC-7, oriel36 wrote:



Anyone,and I mean anyone, can easily identify the motion of Venus and
Mercury as they move out from behind the Sun and in the opposite
direction to the annual motion of the background stars and then move to
their widest point before swinging back in front of the central Sun.



Anyone, and I mean anyone, can place 2 sticks in the ground and line them
up on any bright star of their choosing (except for the Sun, it doesn't
work using the Sun), and then start their stopwatch and easily measure the
amount of time that passes until they line up once again on that same
star, which will be 23 56 04 every time, pick any star.



The only possible use
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What part of "anyone can place 2 sticks in the ground and line them up on
any bright star " did you not understand, thug?
You can even crack a window open, peep through the gap and line up on your
neighbour's roof and note when a star crosses that line. It will cross it
again in 23 56 04 so you don't need to buy any sticks, although the best way
is get a telescope on a tripod and don't move it. But you don't have a
telescope, do you?

-- The Reverend Lord Androcles, Archbishop of Ballistic Light.
(H. God Wilson thinks he's the God of Ballistic Light and can tell it what
to do.)