This will put your problems in perspective.

Warning: This is a "Kum-ba-yah" post. "Oh, the humanity of it all!" When I was a kid growing up in Lakewood, NJ-- my dad would every once in a while break out a cheapo telescope. He'd set up a folding chair on the front yard late at night, and would fill-up a thermos with hot chocolate. We'd go outside and he'd have me peer into the viewfinder--- up at the stars. All I wanted to do was get more of the hot chocolate-- well past my bed time. My dad is/was an avid reader of Issac Asimov, and a real nerd for astronomy and space. I never got "why" back then? Back then was "why".

This is a cool story. All be it geeked out. There is nothing more humbling than looking up there at night and thinking about just how small and irrellevant our headaches (however real or manufactured) can be.

"The first pictures of planets outside our Solar System have been taken, two groups report in the journal Science.

Visible and infrared images have been snapped of a planet orbiting a star 25 light-years away."

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[poeticplayer]

That's deep