Thank you, Kim, for the clarification. But to be fair to Patrick, I'm going to backpedal a bit and say that he is actually right- from his perspective. Up until 13 years ago, I was wearing the propellored-beanie as well. There was NOTHING as great, terrific, awe-inspiring, meaningful, (pick your favorite superlative) as astronomy and space exploration. Then it happened- I actually did see the most incredible, miraculous thing in the universe, and suddenly everything I'd ever seen through the eyepiece, ever will see, or ever seen beamed to me from NASA or a Great Observatory, paled to a poor second place. I saw my daughter being born. Nothing else will ever match the significance, the awe-inspiring importance, the sheer miracle, of that specatcle. Not smashing a probe into a comet, or even meeting the aliens. So I'm sorry if I sound a bit jaded or bored about certain astronomical events anymore...they just don't, and can't, measure up. And Patrick just doesn't have that perspective. So, from his point of view, he is correct, and I find myself actually happy for him if he finds joy in his perspective, and will defend his point of view when taken within the constraints of that context. C. --- Kim Hyatt <kimharch@cut.net> wrote:
I agree with Chuck - remember, he said that "VISUALLY this was a near non-event." Patrick, of course, is talking about historical significance.
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