jamesq | Dumb Questions - Quad War Edition

No, not "what's the capital of Alaska". That was a smart ass question.

It's Friday night and the sun has gone down and the stars have come out. The Quad War site is nowhere near a city so the light pollution is fairly minimal. Get away from a camp fire and you can see so many stars it's a little magical.

I'm talking to a friend and I'm looking up at the sky.

"I've got a dumb question," I say.
"There are no dumb questions."
"OK, but you might think this is dumb, or at least something that any human being over the age of nine should already know..."
She interrupts me, "Yes, that's the Milky Way."

So yeah, it was a dumb question. So much so that she correctly predicted what it was before I could ask it. In my defense, I've always been a city boy, and in the city you're lucky if you can see any stars at all. "What's that dim star in the sky" "It's Venus" is a legitimate exchange. Though often the answers will be things like "a highrise", or "police helicopter", or "the moon". That's how much light pollution there is in Cowtown.