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[dvandorn]

Speaking of which -- I once spent a week in Buenos Aires. It was late April, so the length of day at that latitude in Argentina was similar to that in North America in late October, i.e., it got dark pretty early in the evening.

So I enjoyed several strolls down the streets under dark skies. Now, it's a big city, with lots of light pollution, but the Moon shone through quite nicely.

And, from my lifetime-of-experence, it was upside-down.

You spend eight hours on an airplane, and you don't feel like you've gone all that far... until you look up in the sky, and the Moon is upside-down. Then you get this odd feeling, deep in your gut, that you're really a long way from home...

-the other Doug