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stellar_muddle) wrote2006-11-19 01:22 pm
stellar_muddle) wrote2006-11-19 01:22 pm
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A wonderful combination of cynicism and delight...
A very good documentary on ABC: A sidewalk astronomer, about John Dobson: inventor of the Dobsonian Telescope, cofounder of Sidewalk Astronomy and all around character. I don't agree with his cosmological theories but his delight and patience in going out and showing people the sun, the moon and the universe, and explaining is just glorious. I want to have that degree of enthusiasm and bounce and life when I am 90...
That was worth staying up for.
"Once you come to the conclusion that what you know already is all you need to know, then you have a degree in disinterest."
"The universe is a lot bigger than the earth and it's a lot bigger than the solar system and it's a lot bigger than our galaxy and we owe it to ourselves to notice it."
You come away thinking it would be worth starting a local sidewalk astronomy and geology... not show precisely , but conversation... And remember why...
Wander outside and take a look up.
That was worth staying up for.
"Once you come to the conclusion that what you know already is all you need to know, then you have a degree in disinterest."
"The universe is a lot bigger than the earth and it's a lot bigger than the solar system and it's a lot bigger than our galaxy and we owe it to ourselves to notice it."
You come away thinking it would be worth starting a local sidewalk astronomy and geology... not show precisely , but conversation... And remember why...
Wander outside and take a look up.
And he's kind of sexy, too.
Wow.