Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for September 29, 2016

More stars than all the pebbles of sand from all the beaches on the planet……. I can’t really fathom that.

I remember my mother trying to explain the concept of an infinite universe and it blew my mind

Still blown

Just don’t look behind the curtain!

One view of the stars in the firmament on a clear night, is enough to make one realize, how individually insignificant we really are.

It’s not “infinite” but very close as in so big a number it might as well be. Billions of stars in our galaxy, and there are billions of galaxies in that. Our sun is rather impressive. And close.

“who knows”? really? even if you believe it’s fiction, you know who knows.

Five out of 100 billion? Meh. (See today’s Broomhilda.)

Well unless the family has moved western North Dakota, they haven’t really seen much of the stars. I guess you could run up to Yosimite and see quite a few but from an urban back yard you really don’t see all that much. Too much light from the street lights and business and homes.

I finally got clear weather to see the Persiads this year. The Milky Way was so bright, I had trouble making out constellations I can see easily from inside my house. And I only had to go four miles from my light-fogged house to do it.

What location would this be? Outside of desert areas, there’s just too much light pollution and air pollution to see much more than the moon.