Monday, March 5, 2012

Thousands of Miles

I stood this evening with a pair of binoculars staring at the moon. These were very nice binoculars. Each eye piece focuses independently. When I had taken my time to focus the binoculars as well as I could I stood in the doorway with the binoculars to my eyes staring at the moon. The moon craters and some topography seemed fairly apparent. How can this be? The moon is thousands of miles away...thousands. How far can one really see? And why are we unable to see further? There is something out there that can see farther than I can. The binoculars prove that our eyes are not working as well as eyes somewhere else. Who has eyes that strong, and more? It seems we should be able to see this far, see this well on our own - without binoculars, or contact lenses. But then, why can't we see the nose on our face?

4 comments:

  1. I can see what you mean, if that's any help.
    :-)

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  2. Very good questions. I have always said if you lose a small object in a carpet you need to get a 4 year old kid to find it. They see and notice every detail about everything....

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  3. We can light years away. Some stars we see--all of them I think--are so far that if we had a dollar for ever mile away, we could pay off the national debt and money left over for a good set of glasses. All in how you look at it.

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  4. It seems we should be able to see this far, see this well on our own - without field glasses, or contacts. But then, why can't we see the nasal area on our face?

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