I got to see Halley's Comet while in the middle of a wilderness area here
in Arizona. It was not that it was all that impressive so much as it seemed
cool to see something that only comes around once every 75-79 years.
>
>I hate to admit it, but events like eclipses, meteor showers etc. leave me
>pretty cold. I did caught up in the Halleys comet hype back in 1986, and drove
>to the middle of nowhere in central Florida (I was doing my PhD at the
>University of Florida at the time) with camera, tripod, fast film etc. The
>whole thing, when it happened, was decidedly underwhelming. I saw a solar
>eclipse in Israel in 1999, again, fun enough but no big deal really.
>
>I guess I just have a preference for earthly phenomena.
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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