The Venus Eclipse of the Sun 2012: A Rare Celestial Event: Going to the Heart of Technology

The hyperbole and inflated attention given to the supposed "end of the world" on December 21, 2012, has obscured an actual rare celestial event happening in June of 2012--the passage of Venus before the face of the Sun as seen from the Earth, which happens every 125 years. Although Venus is much smaller than the Sun, Tresemer calls this an eclipse because of the ways he expects it to affect world events. What impact will it have?

David Tresemer considers the dynamics of Sun, Earth, Venus, a...