So I went to the planetarium yesterday - turns out having a teacher's ID is a very handy thing. Free admission! Huzzah. We saw this show about eclipses. There's going to be a lunar eclipse in about 2 weeks...and it was all about how that works, why, how often, and a bunch of other stuff. It was so cool.
There was a moment where they turned the lights down even farther, so the fake night sky looked the way it would if you were way out, away from city lights. It was sort of like certain moments in Colorado at night, when you're in between mountains that block out the extra light, and the sky is so brilliant...but I was thinking about Zambia. We got to go camping while we were there - out in the bush, in the middle of 10,500 acres of game farm land owned by some guy we met. Anyway, it was dark. And the sky was totally amazing - unbelievable. No words can even describe how stunning it was - just laying out there, looking, thinking about how big...how small...just...yeah. And it was all southern hemisphere stuff, so it was a completely foreign star-viewing experience for me. Crazy.
Anyway.
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so timely you posted this....
yesterday morning i wrote this whole thing on the cosmos, inspired my Donald Miller, and my experience in the outback of Australia. I'll post it sometime.
Its incredible.
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