google space

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http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html

this is like Google Earth but you see stars, constellations and planets

I thought people here would find this very amusing

 

[Guest]

rayer:

Thanks!

 

[Gratefully_dead]

whaaaaaat!?!? thats incredible not sure if i feel its a good thing or not i mean why sit on your ass in front of a monitor to look at stars when you can go lie in a field with some friends maybe toss a joint in there and look up at the real thing?

 

[BrainEater]

well i guess it'd be hard to see stars through a wall of thick clouds....

 

[ararat]

+ zooming to nebulae isn't that easy when you are lying around outside, furthermore you can get information about those stars easily

 

[HeartCore]

whaaaaaat!?!? thats incredible not sure if i feel its a good thing or not i mean why sit on your ass in front of a monitor to look at stars when you can go lie in a field with some friends maybe toss a joint in there and look up at the real thing?

I agree with you but the reality for a lot of us, is that we can't even see a quarter of the stars anymore because of light pollution. When I moved to France for a few years and ended up in a small village in the middle of nowhere on the edge of the mountains, I was in complete awe, looking at the stars at night. I spent hours just lying on my back at night looking at the sky and dreaming.

In Holland where I live now and lived most of my life it's really hard to get impressed by the sky at night because only a fraction of what could be seen, is visible.

PS: Great addon, thanks for posting