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January 19 'Lazy astronomy': Viewing the Planet Parade

 How many of the stars above no longer exist? Tens, thousands? Top of Form Bottom of Form As the rich and the curious, categories of people that never truly overlap, send probes and build quantum computers to decode footage snatched from the edges of our reach we lie here, on this lawn, kids playing PlayStation inside, and look upwards. We don’t need to know; knowledge brings uncertainty and decisions. Content to be, down here, on this tiny fragment of rock, surrounded by everything else.