"Alan White" wrote in message
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On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:53:17 -0000, "paulus" wrote:

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Go outside on a clear dark night. Look up at the stars and ask your self
"will we really be missed?"

Even that's becoming more and more difficult.

The last time we saw a clear dark sky was at 14,500 feet close to the
Sikkim/Nepal border in the foothills of Kanchenjunga in 2001. Nothing
that I've seen in the UK in the last thirty-odd years compares to that
sort of sky. It's unbelievably beautiful - and humbling.
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Indeed, and that is what modern man is missing out on, I'm sure the ancients had
more of a "sense of place" than we do now.

Will
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