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Sometimes its nice to just look at stars, lots of them.
December 11, 2012 at 9:20 am
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'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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RE: Sometimes its nice to just look at stars, lots of them.
December 11, 2012 at 9:27 am
Beautiful. Simply beautiful.
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.'
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NGC 7789, Open Cluster In Cassiopeia
December 11, 2012 at 9:28 am
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'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
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RE: Sometimes its nice to just look at stars, lots of them.
December 11, 2012 at 9:59 am
Twinkle, twinkle little star.. 
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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RE: Sometimes its nice to just look at stars, lots of them.
December 11, 2012 at 10:05 am
Lived in Hamburg for some time.
No stars.
Only one big, disgusting, ugly, thik, grey coat of smog..................... illuminated by the cities lights to have the color of a horrible hangover piss.
One underestimates how depressing that can be.
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RE: Sometimes its nice to just look at stars, lots of them.
December 11, 2012 at 10:20 am
It's a bit like that here in Walsall, seeing as I'm a stone's throw from the town centre... all that street lighting and the lights of local businesses (not to mention one of our nightclubs with a great big fuck-off searchlight on the roof - who are they trying to attract, sodding Batman or something?) So we don't tend to see many stars, only the brightest ones and the major planets. In fact, I only saw the Milky Way for the first time in my life on a family holiday to a remote spot in the Highlands a few years ago.
I once read of an incident that supposedly happened in New York, I think, during WWII. It may or may not be true, like most of these things, but apparently there was a massive city-wide power cut and a resulting blackout. Before long, the police became deluged by panicked citizens calling to report scary-looking lights in the sky; of course, they turned out to be the stars, which most people had presumably never seen due to all the lighting at night.
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.'
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RE: Sometimes its nice to just look at stars, lots of them.
December 11, 2012 at 11:35 am
(December 11, 2012 at 9:59 am)Kayenneh Wrote: Twinkle, twinkle little star..
Or, as otherwise known
Mozart: Variations for Piano on "Ah, vous dirai-je maman," K. 265
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RE: Sometimes its nice to just look at stars, lots of them.
December 11, 2012 at 11:40 am
Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific,
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific,
Loftily poised in the ether capacious,
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous!
When torrid Phoebus removeth his presence,
Ceasing to lamp us with fierce incandescense,
Then you illumine the regions supernal,
Scintillate, scintillate semper nocturnal.
The traveller on lustreless perigrination,
Gratefully hails your minute coruscation,
He could not determine his journey’s direction,
But for your bright scintillitating protection.
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.'
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RE: Sometimes its nice to just look at stars, lots of them.
December 11, 2012 at 12:18 pm
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Hey, arent we getting a really good meteor shower in 2 days time? The Gemenid meteor shower? I'd almost forgotten! I shall have to set my alarm and such, after finding out when to set it.
Hmm, seems it's tomorrow tonight and it's a new moon, so extra visible meteor shower
Nemo me impune lacessit.
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RE: Sometimes its nice to just look at stars, lots of them.
December 11, 2012 at 12:45 pm
(December 11, 2012 at 11:40 am)Stimbo Wrote: Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific,
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific,
Loftily poised in the ether capacious,
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous!
When torrid Phoebus removeth his presence,
Ceasing to lamp us with fierce incandescense,
Then you illumine the regions supernal,
Scintillate, scintillate semper nocturnal.
The traveller on lustreless perigrination,
Gratefully hails your minute coruscation,
He could not determine his journey’s direction,
But for your bright scintillitating protection. Good work! Deserves another Rating +1.
But I can't.
Sorry.
Sum ergo sum
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