the hunger

i have a hunger.

i want to sit beneath a projected sky and forget about all my troubles.

i want to sit and look at a horizon like adler had .. imagine the city i live in

i want to see stars as i would from the amazon basin. i want to see what i would see from the top of everest

i want to see what increasingly its hard for me to see

i have that hunger. to see what magellean saw as he sailed south along the s. america coast

i have that hunger. to see the southern cross like

i have that hunger.

i dont know why i am even to type this into a computer. it must be a strong hunger

what do YOU have a hunger for in astronomy ? planetariums?

it defies categories.

its just a HUNGER ...

its ok. we have it too gare

Nothings the Same except (the Stars)

I read the Time Machine as a kid in the 60s, and unlike HG Wells grim depictation of time travel, I thought it to be the ultimate fantasy. And somehow, alot of it has come true for me!

The internet is a time machine. Pining for that old neighborhood, golf course, baseball field - Google Maps takes me there, albeit from above. Wishing I'd seen Uriah Heep in concert in the summer of 72? Youtube takes me there, front row. Wondering about that longlost Jr High friend? You can probably find him. I've done all three of these things in the last week. Time travel.

But what was it REALLY like? What can we see that is virtually unchanged since Cromwell saw it - the stars really (I know, sky phenomena change, pollution dims, some stars change positions quicker than others) .. but for all practical purposes, I can see the stars the same as Cromwell did.

This I admit is part of the fascination of the plaetarium for me .. I can go to the north pole and look up, I can get in a lifeboat and paddle out northeast from the Titanic . and see the same stars. We are bonded with the past by that. Yet who bothers to wonder?

Time machines are now on the screen before me. But theyve always been in the sky above me.