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Cool!

Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.

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Today is Boomtime, day 47 in the season of Chaos, 3269.

We've gotten a little bit of snow in the last couple of days. It's supposed to taper off tomorrow, so we'll see how much we end up with. The drift in front of the apartment doors in the second picture is two feet high; I'd guess there's probably 14 or 15 inches elsewhere, it was coming up to the top of my almost-knee-high Docs in the areas that hadn't been shovelled/plowed yet.