Let the stars shine, Kumbaya

[OldAirmail]

We've all heard of Doctors Without Borders, and it would be hard not to point them out as a group that really puts their heart & lives where their needed.

This other group...

I'll leave that up to you to decide if they'll make a change in the world.



I've looked at the stars with wonder & amazement most of my life. It's not just a bunch of tiny lights in the sky.

There are worlds up there with life. I don't have the slightest doubt about it.

That's not to say that I believe there are aliens visiting us now. One year of observation, maximum, and they would probably eliminate us.

One way or another.





This is all leading up to Astronomers Without Borders. Or, rather I should say their 130mm reflector for $200 .



What I like about it, other than the low price, is that it doesn't take up much space. The easier it is to set up and put away, the more likely it is to be used.


On some prior wish list was the Edmund Scientific scope at 105mm (4 1/8") and almost $300.$289 to be exact.

[Flying Trucker]

A couple of interesting units there...OldAirMail...

After flying military, commercial, bush and recreational for almost eight decades I can honestly say I have never seen a UFO. Unidentified Flying Objects do not appear in any of my Pilots Log Books.

I have had several First Officers years back who swore up and down they had seen a UFO. However they could show no proof of the UFO. While on lay overs we had several conversations about UFOs but that is as far as it went as no one could show me proof of a UFO.

For life on other planets, not sure and as for aliens visiting this planet, well, why would they not make their selves known and tell us how to stop destroying what we already have.

Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, come on now, do you really think we will see something like one of those ships in our lifetime? First of all I don't think either one of them have a washroom as I don't know anyone who watches those programs that has seen someone go to a washroom...

Hollywood does wonderful things...look what they did for John Wayne...they gave him a six shooter that could fire a hundred rounds without reloading...awesome...

Superstition's like walking under ladders, black cats, stepping on a sidewalk crack etc., give me a break, people who believe in superstition are related to the nuts we have here that think Halloween for the children is teaching them to believe in Satanism.

Hope I didn't wander too far off topic OldAirMail but I am in the midst of drafting a Bill to send to the Chinese Government.
I have laid claim to the Moon and I am sending them a Bill for leaving their junk up there.

P.S. This is more serious:

Yes I do believe in Santa Clause after all the Royal Canadian Mail would not have an address for him if he did not exist and the Gentlemen of the Royal Canadian Air Force would not escort him all over North America if he did not exist and report to the individual Radio Stations as to his progress...

Santa Claus
North Pole H0H 0H0
Canada

[Fozzer]

Our Sim V Member, Alrot (Alex), is a keen astronomer with a variety of large Telescopes!

Paul...Adjustable zoom Refractor Telescope..for looking at things a long way off... ...!

[OldAirmail]

Oh, I believe in life ON other planets.

With all the planets going around all the suns, in all the galaxies, expanding throughout the history of the universe. Yeah, gota be something living somewhere else.

Intelligent life? Don't know. Not much down this gravity well. I think most of it died off.



Santa? Don't know. He might have died too. That or he lost my address.



I can't see a wise and giving nature being the driving force in an expansion of sentient beings.