04-29-2009, 10:15 PM
RobertInOntario Wrote:Great pics!
Back in the '70s and '80s, when I was a teenager and in my 20s, I was REALLY into astronomy (as much as I am into trains now). My Dad was a strong MRR enthusiast and assisted as a conductor on a heritage train back then, but (instead) I was usually outside at night with one of my two telescopes looking at the four brightest planets, variable stars, nebulae or meteors!
It's mind-boggling how extremely large the universe is and how tiny the Earth is.
Rob
As Jody foster said in Contact - if Mankind if the only life there is, what a terrible waste.