Drone » galileo http://www.toobrown.com ramblings of an artistic soul Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:40:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 into the void http://www.toobrown.com/2009/06/12/into-the-void/ http://www.toobrown.com/2009/06/12/into-the-void/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:28:21 +0000 toobrown http://www.toobrown.com/?p=47

My Celestron Powerseeker telescope

Galileo peered into the heavens and saw the lunar surface for the first time in 1610. I admit I discovered the joy of interstellar observation very late. But, I am glad I did — sooner than later — and it all came to me in one fell swoop — the grand beauty of the cosmos, the smallness of our existence, the vulnerability of our being and the crowded loneliness of the experience that is human life.

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