Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Low traffic Date: 3 May 2025 05:59:57 GMT Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <87ecx6zn76.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net O1EDgjS1YlHJpXEaclM7KATKCL94t4+UcxQOh6kzYtSDXhMLPe Cancel-Lock: sha1:dHJrR7WPxSZNChNdIqaUj43Mkc4= sha256:5ktMPZ37+EImUh7zeKqTHFV1UhRi/0Du8FYoMr5JajE= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:230932 On 02 May 2025 19:01:49 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote: > When I first moved to rural Nova Scotia in 1969, my little convoy of > vans and pickups arriver at my new home at 9PM on April 1. The guy > riding with me climbed down fron the cab, looked up and exclaimed, "Look > at all the stars, Spencer! Look at all the fuckin stars!" I spent several winters in Why Az. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why,_Arizona The photo sums it up nicely. It wasn't so much I could see more stars but I could sit out at night and really study them. The Milky Way stood out like I'd never seen before. I've lived almost all of my life in the north so the winter sky was something you admired very briefly before frostbite settled in. 'clear' is a synonym for 'colder than hell'.