Lexx_Luthor 57 Posted February 7, 2012 Some good insights to read here. Astro thread about souls seeing the stars for the first time and panicking. Seeing a dark sky actually frightens some., at teh Cloudy Nights forum. -- Stars are like breakers on an ocean beach -- an inhumanly powerful, terrifying force. I never thought of it like that. Another one... -- I have forgotten the attribution, but it has been said that (paraphrase): "Life for most people consists of transiting between the insides of cars and buildings". And somebody brought up Asimov's book Nightfall. Brilliant. I always knew that Ancient souls knew the stars, cos they had to, for farming, navigation, religion, etc... Reminds me of when I moved from Mississippie to Flawrida and started salt water fishing for the first time. There was something, a social/cultural norm, they called a "tide chart" in the form of a plastic wallet card, like those bank debt cards. All the yahoos carried their tide cards in their wallets, like a male acceptance thing. Knowing where the moon was in the Earths' orbit, cos I always watched the sky, I never bothered to get a "tide chart" but I always showed up on time, in my freshwater mississippie truck, when the Blues were running in winter. Teh yahoos had no clue how I could do this, although some clicked with the reason and loved the idea. Nobody ever told em. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wrench 9,461 Posted February 7, 2012 Nightfall is a superb story, one of the good Drs best Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
