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To: SunkenCiv
We live out in "the country" of our local galaxy. Imagine how many stars appear in the night sky if one lives on planet toward the galactic core. I wonder if their night skies are even dark?


4 posted on 01/17/2016 4:26:10 AM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Flick Lives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_short_story_and_novel)

“Nightfall” is a 1941 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated at all times on all sides. It was adapted into a novel with Robert Silverberg in 1990. The short story has been included in 48 anthologies, and has appeared in six collections of Asimov’s stories.[citation needed] In 1968, the Science Fiction Writers of America voted Nightfall the best science fiction short story written prior to the 1965 establishment of the Nebula Awards, and included it in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964.


6 posted on 01/17/2016 5:04:13 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Islam is the greened eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feeds upon.)
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To: Flick Lives

Nice pic,

“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” Psalm 8:3-4

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork.” Psalm 19:1


8 posted on 01/17/2016 5:31:25 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: Flick Lives

Isaac Asimov — “Nightfall” (1941)
https://www.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/nightfall.pdf


11 posted on 01/17/2016 6:57:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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