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If you've never experienced the Milky Way on a truly dark (ie: new moon) night, I highly recommend taking a camping trip.

It's amazing, and the longer you lie there and wait, the more of it you'll see.

It will put into perspective just how little we are in our galaxy. (And that's just one galaxy!)

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Yeah, it's sad how pervasive unnecessary light pollution has become in this country. In Manhattan, you could barely see half a dozen stars at night.

You should attempt to escape to Africa and get busted at Grand Central Station and then get shipped off and be a cast away in Madagascar island, where you can see thousands and thousands of stars instead of helicopters :-)

I used to live in a developing country, and it was amazing what you could see at night.

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