I read somewhere that only one in five people have seen the Milky Way. It's pretty hard to see from the city.

I was just outside sitting in the dark, and saw no fireflies. :(

Keryx says that she remembers seeing fireflies when she was a kid, but not in a long time.

I killed 7 of them in my bedroom last week.

Evil Toad :eek:

I am sorry, I realize that it is against your spiritual sensibilities Lola. But in my current living conditions, I can see no way around it. In the farmhouse, it is them or me.

At this time I am besieged by three different species of ant. This morning I destroyed a deer tick that was sitting outside on my door frame. I mistakenly left a bucket of water sitting outside for a few days and the local West Nile-carrying mosquito population went crazy.

It's only through the drinking of many, many gin and tonics, containing the valuable medication Quinine, that I will survive the summer.

It's OK as long as you eat them. ;)

UT, are you sure you dont live in my neighbourhood?

Gin and tonics.

I mean don't spare the tonic. There's a reason it's called tonic. Use a good brand. And a healthy squeeze of lime will prevent the scurvy, if yours is not an orange juice drinking nation.

There have been plenty of those consumed by me. :)

Someone (Limey?) needs to point it out to me one day. I've been in plenty of places away from light pollution and have still never seen it.
... well I guess in a country where people eat witchetty grubs...

If you have seen any star ever, you have seen part of the Milky Way. When people refer to the Milky Way in the sky, they are just talking about an area where the stars are thicker and take on a cloudy appearance. But it's all the Milky Way. You need a really dark sky to see anything that's not part of the Milky Way.

We has that. Sometimes.

Ginandwhatnow?

I have seen some awesome stary skies from the outback. Unbelievable.