It's fascinating to go down to the beach, to feel the ocean spray against your skin and watch a storm out at sea rolling in. You can stare out for miles and see the dark clouds gathering on the horizon line. Slowly the wind starts to build, then within hours the clouds are above you and it's raining. Somehow it reminds me of how astronomers stare at the stars and in the telescopes look through both space and time. (Explanation: light travels incredibly fast, but it still takes time for light to get from one place to another. With powerful lenses (and spacecraft like the Voyager) we can see galaxies not as they look today, but how they looked when that now old light left them, thousands or millions of years ago...it's a perplexing and intriguing thought.)
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