What could have been.

I've started a new book by the Lead Scientist for the COBE satellite. It is designed to measure the background radiation left over from the Big Bang. The writer was raised in a New Jersey suburb of New York whereas I was raised in a Long Island suburb of New York. As I read about is upbringing I was struck by how similar my life was to his. The books and magazines he read were the same ones I read. He salivated over the catalogs from Edmund Scientific and Allied Electronics as did I. He built a 4 inch reflector telescope and I never got around to it. He writes of the car sized meteorite at the Museum of Natural History. Anyone who has been there knows this chunk of metal. He elucidated the radiation left over from the Big Bang and I didn't. His upbringing was the same as mine but my vision was (and remains to be) about 15 degrees off center. What a difference goals and ambition make.
An off center vision hints that we're all on this flight together.

Dick