Yes indeed. Whenever I go outside, no matter how cold, I can't help but take a moment to stare at the Moon and stars if there's no cloud cover. Been looking up and wondering, dreaming, wishing for as long as I can remember. When I was a wee lad of nine or so, i used to take my dad's flashlight, point it into the nighttime sky, and leave it on for a long time. I had just discovered the concept of the light year, and was absolutely fascinated by the thought that the photons from my flashlight beam would still be hurtling toward those stars decades later. Even now, corny as it may sound, i get a thrill out of thinking that one of my light particles is hurtling through space thirty-plus lightyears from me. Often I'd flash Morse code with the flashlight, in my naive youth expecting that someday some advanced alien race would catch the two or three of my photons that managed to get out to them and then interpret "SOS" as something meaningful!
----- Original Message ----- From: "C.W. Badie" <astromancer2...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:46:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Wolf" Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it Even in one of those Chicago winter?? "Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet" >From "THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES" by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> wrote: From: Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Wolf" Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:26 PM It was already cloudy here, or maybe I was just groggy from having to drive all the way up to Alpharetta in the pre-dawn cold, and just didn't notice. Nah, can't be that: i never fail to notice the moon and stars, no matter how tired i am. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker013@ hotmail.com> To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifino...@yahoogro ups.com> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:10:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] "Wolf" Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it Keith, I glimpsed the Moon this morning when I was putting the trash out for pickup, and it was a whopper then, just barely above the treetops. Despite the cold, I stood and stared. Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.
