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Old May 20, 2012 | 7:15 pm
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Originally Posted by ainternational
Rather presumptuous of you to think we won't last until the next eclipse, isn't it? ;-) haha...
Not at all, since I wasn't talking about eclipses in general. The next transit of Venus after the one coming up next month will not occur for another 105 years. Assuming all of us are adults, we would have to live longer than any human lifespan ever recorded to see the next one.
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