[sleavelessinseattle]

Yo, P7 If you gots da contagion, drop me a note...I gots the 15th APOD if you needs da break! Get BETTER!;-D I am still squeamish about long term space travel until some sort of field can be generated to stop Xrays and Cosmic Rays hitting the crew...The stories of the astronauts on the space station "seeing" cosmic rays in the darkness originating from the sun sort a creeps me out, aright?

[RightWhale]

The stories of the astronauts on the space station "seeing" cosmic rays in the darkness

Reports are they can be seen inside the eyeball. Kind of a bubble chamber, a flash of light inside the eye when it is completely dark.