Transit of Mercury 2019 - The Monday Morning Memo

The planet Mercury is the closest to the Sun, reaches 700 degrees centigrade, is only slightly larger than the Earth’s Moon, and, of the planets known to the ancients, is the most difficult to locate in the sky. Mercury has roughly three “days” for every two of its “years.” The next transit of Mercury [across the sun] will happen … 11 Nov 2019 starting 12:35 and ending 18:04. – from Planet Mercury by David A. Rothery

“The United States, virtually a demilitarized nation on the eve of the Second World War, never stood down in the wake of victory. To this day, American troops are deployed in 150 countries. Since the 1970s, China has not once gone to war; the U.S. has not spent a day at peace. President Jimmy Carter recently noted that in its 242-year history, America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace, making it, as he wrote, “the most warlike nation in the history of the world.” Since 2001, the U.S. has spent over $6 trillion on military operations and war, money that might have been invested in the infrastructure of home. China, meanwhile, built its nation, pouring more cement every three years than America did in the entire 20th century.”

- Wade Davis, anthropologist, published in Rolling Stone, Aug 6, 2020

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