Today SI has 50 full-time staffers (many of them poached from the EIU and other well-capitalized rivals who could have--but didn't--squash Venus in the early days) and 70 part-time researchers.
The transit of Venus can't be observed with the Hubble Space Telescope because the extreme brightness of the sun would destroy the telescope and its instruments.
"I definitely really want to go, but I don't think I would do well physically, " said Serena after defeating sister Venus in the Sony Ericsson Championships final on Sunday.
You don't talk about that bit in Botticelli's Primavera where the Medici prince reaches up for the orange or that bit in the Birth of Venus where her neck would look wrong if her shoulders weren't wrong too.