Where's the mission to axe pluto from the planets list? You'll always be a planet to me pluto.

Looking up into the night sky is like taking a ride on a time machine...

Did you ever look into the night sky, pick out a star system, close your eyes and imagine that you went there? If you imagine in enough detail, how much different would it be than a trip that you actually took to say the Grand Canyon....The mental images are the same. And after you came back from the Grand Canyon, you could almost imagine that it was in fact a dream and you never went there....

Suppose all of our experiences are merely a mean trick played on us by some bodiless entity....I think, therefore I am, may be a fallacy.

Did you ever look into the night sky, pick out a star system, close your eyes and imagine that you went there? If you imagine in enough detail, how much different would it be than a trip that you actually took to say the Grand Canyon....The mental images are the same. And after you came back from the Grand Canyon, you could almost imagine that it was in fact a dream and you never went there....

Suppose all of our experiences are merely a mean trick played on us by some bodiless entity....I think, therefore I am, may be a fallacy.

I used to be able to see the whole Milky Way, too... I lived in an extremely rural area, on a dirt road. Now I can see maybe five stars. Here in Indiana it's not that bad, though. My college is in the midst of corn fields and small towns, and though the Milky Way is only slightly visible, I can still see all the constellations.

That's exactly the kind of place I want to live when I get older. My aunt lives in Ballston Lake by Albany, and she's got a front row seat to the most beautiful light show in the world. You can see everything. It always sucked coming back from that to light polluted Williamsville and all 6 of the stars that are sometimes visible.