Recent content by Dingo69

Thanks for the insight folks. What is blatantly obvious to you and me (and other logically minded people), is often difficult to grasp for people who consider retirement planning to consist of buying lottery tickets. Having some real facts to reinforce my arguments helps dramatically.

Clarification - when they said "the sun will pass through the galactic center (from Earth's vantage point)", they don't mean physically pass through it, but that the three points of the Earth sun and galactic center will form a straight line with the sun at the center. And I agree 100% with...

I am interested in verifying the following claim: The most interesting is that the sun will pass through the galactic center (from Earth's vantage point) on Dec 21, 2012, which is when the Mayan calendar "ends" (and is also the winter solstice). I'm having a discussion where my argument is...