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LOL! My husband is a big star-watcher too. I remember he woke me up at 3am during our honeymoon trip to see the big moon and got the response me “it was there when I was born, wasn’t it?” I'm interested in anything I can exchange ideas and emotions with, but stars are merely a bunch of rocks in space:) My favorite planet is Saturn.

My favorite planet to play is "Jupiter". (That would be Holst's "The Planets").

Anyone else terribly disappointed about Pluto's demotion? I remember hearing a scientist on NPR refer to the big controversy as "No Iceball Left Behind".

A really good web site, and a proud use of my tax dollars, is nasa.gov .

Yixi - Stars are not merely rocks! Just imagine that the light you see left the star millions and millions years ago when none of us was around, no violins or strings, chin/shoulder rests. They will be there when we all are gone, the entire human race. Our daily joys, sorrows, little triumphants or excruciating disappointments all look a bit small compared to that. Makes one think about how temporary our lives are and long for eternal beauty!

Ihnsouk

Ahh! How big and eternal things quickly dwarf and humble us! Rocks were there before us and will be there afterwards, but they are still rocks. Gases and lights are all like that. Also anything that has never existed in universe can also be pretty amazing in that it didn’t exist before and probably won’t after us. What made it doesn’t exist? Could it be even greater than human mind can imagine? See, for a silly little person just loves ideas and living things, rocks, gases and lights just don’t do anything for her. Small is beautiful too. It is our violins, strings, chin and shoulder rests, our daily joys and sorrows that are real and fascinating to me.

A good friend of mine just passed away last week due to a heart attach. He was one of the most extraordinary people I’ve ever met and he left this world way too early. How much I wish he could have lived longer! But then, in a way, great people don’t disappear due to death. The mind and the heart pass on from individual to individual who has been affected. My friend’s whole life is a good example of a life worth living: highly ethical and highly accomplished intellectually and socially. To live like that is a true bless despite being cut short.

Eternity has its limits: to live forever mindlessly is horrid.

That sounds like fun. You got a lot of enjoyment from your $2 purchase. Yixi, When my husband and I were in Germany for our honeymoon, driving somewhere in the evening between castles, there was this amazing lunar From Karen Allendoerfer
Posted from 71.126.240.145 on July 2, 2007 at 11:50 AM (GMT)