Indeed; not forgetting, however, that today's layman may be tomorrow's professional astronomer. It's pretty much the sole remaining scientific field in which the amateur can still make a valuable contribution.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
