NASA is putting a new pic of this taken from the SDO every 15 minutes.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
Also a related site that's putting together little movies as it happens.
http://venustransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Not bad for less than a half a penny from every tax buck.
Transit of Venus
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Re: Transit of Venus
too bad China is going to make your "space program" look like a bunch of cavemen worshiping a falling star in about 10 years. you all should be ashamed at what you did to NASA.
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We've spent less on the entire life of NASA than we did on the bank bailouts. Those are some seriously fucked priorities.
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Re: Transit of Venus
Start a rumor there's oil on Mars. We'll be there by Christmas.