Sunday 17 February 2008

Sheep Worrier

If you've become a bit of a city boy or city girl I can recommend getting back to nature once in a while. You'll need to find a pub in the middle of nowhere with a total lack of street lighting. Roll up to the pub after a mile trek from wherever you're staying. After some drinks sitting outside you'll be driven inside by the insects. Roll out a good few pints later and it is dark. Pitch black outside.

Back in the city you could see the moon in the night sky. On the walk home from country pub you'll see the Milky Way. I think it's like this... our galaxy is a fried egg. From where we're at, look out at the kitchen ceiling and you're not going to see too many stars. Look into the yoke in the middle and you're going to be looking at a lot of stars. The upshot is, you get a band of stars across the sky.

Have a nice walk home. Hope you remembered your torch and don't worry any of the local farm animals... speaking of which, this laser will target over 10km, beam divergence 4 inches at 1km. Apparently.

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