Isn't it just beautifull to look at stars and partially comprehend what they are? I'm sure any animal with eyes can see them, but we are the only ones capable of gazing at them and wonder what they are 
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 Leader of the gang of jerkoffs(tm)  Religious Views: L'Uomo verrà portato dalla sua creazione  (December 11, 2012 at 12:18 pm)Stue Denim Wrote: 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. There are actually expected to be two meteor showers - the Geminids, and a new one that I think doesn't even have a name. They are expected to peak Thursday night.
'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  RE: Sometimes its nice to just look at stars, lots of them.
December 11, 2012 at 1:04 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2012 at 1:12 pm by Voltron.)
My wife thought I was mad when I told her I wanted to drive out to the West Desert for my birthday a few years back to look at the stars. We drove out to one of the clearest darksky spots in our state when the moon was not out. It was fairly spooky to be out in the pitch black high desert alone to be truthful. Aside from some wind, nothing distorted our view, everything was amazingly visible. After seeing the Milky Way and the countless stars, my wife has now joined me in a fascination with astronomy. We will be taking a trip again this year, this time to Bryce Canyon for a weekend of stargazing.
orogenicman, I have enjoyed the images you have been sharing with us. Thanks for posting them.  RE: Sometimes its nice to just look at stars, lots of them.
December 11, 2012 at 1:06 pm
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(December 11, 2012 at 12:57 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Isn't it just beautifull to look at stars and partially comprehend what they are? I'm sure any animal with eyes can see them, but we are the only ones capable of gazing at them and wonder what they are Well, we're certainly the only ones capable of gazing upon them and know what they are, at least on this planet. I know I've seen Ozzy, my parents' dog, looking keenly at the night sky. Maybe he's seen a bat or something, or maybe he's just enjoying the breeze on his face as dogs are wont to do; but maybe... (December 11, 2012 at 12:45 pm)Ben Davis Wrote: Good work! Deserves another Rating +1. Never mind, it's not my work anyway. In hindsight I should have attributed it, but I'm not sure who penned it. I know it dates back at least to an 1852 journal edited by Charles Dickens and that's as far as I get. By the way, anyone figured out what the poem means, unless you know already?
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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December 11, 2012 at 1:53 pm
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(December 11, 2012 at 1:04 pm)Voltron Wrote: My wife thought I was mad when I told her I wanted to drive out to the West Desert for my birthday a few years back to look at the stars. We drove out to one of the clearest darksky spots in our state when the moon was not out. It was fairly spooky to be out in the pitch black high desert alone to be truthful. Aside from some wind, nothing distorted our view, everything was amazingly visible. After seeing the Milky Way and the countless stars, my wife has now joined me in a fascination with astronomy. We will be taking a trip again this year, this time to Bryce Canyon for a weekend of stargazing. Thanks. My favorite memory of stargazing was at Arches National Park, in Utah. When they say it is "Big sky country", they aren't kidding! It was truly one of the outstanding star gazing experiences of my life. By the way, if the weather cooperates, I plan to do some more astrophotography tomorrow night. So stay tuned. If conditions are right, my menu includes the Pelican nebula early in the evening, followed by the jellyfish nebula starting at 11:00. IF conditions are right.
'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  (December 11, 2012 at 12:59 pm)orogenicman Wrote:(December 11, 2012 at 12:18 pm)Stue Denim Wrote: 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. Good thing I live in the Pacific Northwest, where we are blessed with cloudless skies all year long. Oh, wait. 
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It's a hell of a walk from here. Is there a bus route anywhere near it?
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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