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If you’re in North America at the moment, I hope you caught the lunar eclipse last night, the last total one until March 3rd 2007, which surprisingly isn’t all that far away. I caught a few pictures with my tiny little camera, but the’re not worth showing. Let’s say it just looked something like . There was a time when I had a telescope, and the moon is usually bright enough that if you put a digital camera up to the eyepiece, it usually turns out a pretty nice shot, but it was unfortunately stolen a few years ago. I do miss it…

Anyway, the eclipse was cool to watch. It makes you think about how our planet is situated in the solar system, and how gigantic everything is and how it all fits together. It makes me wonder how (or if) people can fail to be mezmerized and driven to learn as much as they can about the world around them, or should I say, the worlds around them. Here’s a good place to start.