Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I still want to know how the earth can be at its closest point to the sun 3 to 4 times per year? Last I heard, the the orbit is an ellipse and the earth only goes around the sun once a year -- by definition. Tom - ----- Original Message ----- From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Moon beams > At 09:44 AM 12/20/1999 -0800, Jim Brick wrote: > > > >How extraordinary an event is, is directly related to the vision, frame of > >mind, and effort that one applies toward participating in that event. > > > >If you think something is nothing, then indeed that is, to you, what it > >will be. Nothing. > > > >If, on the other hand, being out in gorgeous surroundings, under a full > >moon, with crisp clear see forever winter mountain air, with no competition > >from artificial lights, with your LEICA, is an activity that you are with > >anticipation looking forward to, it will indeed be an extraordinary event. > > > >Regardless of what the naysayers say. > > Hold on here, brother. I am not a "naysayer": I am simply pointing out > that this sort of event occurs three or four times EVERY year. In this > sense, I am a "yeah-sayer". > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > >