Good point

The vast majority of lifelong vision problems are due to inadequate bright light in the first year after birth. The eyes growth is inhibited by bright focused light. Which is what makes them grow until focused. If the light isn't provided them the eyes grow too large and cause nearsightedness.

That constancy of the heavens is something I think we take for granted. Before Galileo and his work to improve the telescope, the heavens were seen as immutable: unchanging. It's difficult to imagine how odd it must have been to see changes happen before the telescope. Most of those would have been temporary, such as comets and nova changes to brightness. They would have really seemed like messengers.

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I just finished reading "The Milky Way: an Autobiography of Our Galaxy" by Dr. Moiya McTier, she was the first dual major of astrophysics and folklore from Harvard.

She keeps it pretty high level, but touches some on the connection between primitive humans, astrology, folklore, and it's progression into astronomy. It's a very well written book, has a lot of info on Galaxy formation, star formation and types, age and shape of the universe. It wound up being a lot more detailed than I thought it might be.

I think someone willing to throw away half a million for twelve minutes in space isn’t paying a mortgage

Hi I'm here for the gang bang

Some even argue that you shouldn’t wear sunglasses outside all the time, and also gazing sun rises and sunsets does wonders.

As shown by Gobekli Tepe dating back 12,000 years

Them putting up that massive shade sail was a way to stop people from looking up and trying to make connections. They want us to think these were made by hunter gatherers and the animals carvings are nothing but that

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Why don't you, and this is going to sound crazy here, go to the link that person posted, fill out the form and this is where it really gets crazy, ask blue origin how much it costs?

> Before the dark times.

In a quite literal sense....it seems nearsightedness happens because children spend more time indoors, in conditions of indoor lighting. Indoor lighting is a whole lot dimmer than outdoor light, and that means the signaling process the eyes use to control their growth doesn't work properly.

For 500k you could buy a house or live off the interest. If you can afford it, go ahead. Me, I’d pay off my house and spend a week in Vegas.

Looks welcoming, so 500k enough?

If anything, Blue Origin seems to be doing rather more flights: https://www.blueorigin.com/new-shepard/reserve-a-seat/

Sounds like an old movie Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.

I mean, if this is true, I think we're all late to science.

Youn right, 6 months. And thanks for the suggestion!

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it's a shame that there is underlying racist motives in astronomy for more than 5 millennia

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At the very least you should be impressed that a late scientist still writes.

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