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Mark I Mazzella
07/24/2009 03:46 PM
Mount Palomar, California Reply

In 1984 during my important fact finding trip and vacation, I got to see the The Space Shuttle land at Edwards Air Force Base and then see The Hugo Awards in Anaheim and I stayed across the street from Disneyland. After that I went south to Oceanside which was one of the nicest places on the California shoreline. Very beautiful during Sunset! It was so awesome I wanted to cry with joy. I went up Mount Palomar which means Mount Dove or Mount Pigeon. I saw no such bird there. I did see Eagles and other Raptors. As I looked out from the Mountainside I saw three huge fires burning to the South! The clouds looked like mushroom clouds like in The Atomic Bomb! I drove into the parking lot near the 200 inch telescope dome. I went to the gift shop but it was closed! I needed more film! The Polaroid photo I took came out half developed. It is all I have to show for that! The gift shop had many things I wanted in the window, but they were closed and open a day a week on Saturdays only.

I then went up the "Stairway to Heaven" as we Astronomers call it. It was a huge stairways built into the side of the dome for visitors. You can actually go inside the dome and see the 200 inch telescope sleeping in the day as technicians worked.

After seeing my fill, I went downstairs and met an old man and his son. He was 99 years old and his son was 69. He was like me in many ways. We discussed the speed of light and I told him many new things he did not know. We parted as friends, but he died a year later. His son seemed uninterested in Quantum Physics and Gravity Control.

After the great conversation which I enjoyed, I decided to look around now that I was still here. I decided to take a walk around the dome and inspect it for any dangerous cracks or anything wrong. I do that with most big telescopes I visit.

As I walked around the dome, I walked about 20 feet from the foundation or basement in a clockwise way.

As I passed around the back of the dome, I looked down and saw a flash of bright shiny metal! I saw a Golden key and a silver metal ring! I picked it up and the blades of grass had grown through the ring, making it hard to pick up.
I ripped it from the grass and looked at the key ring and there were many keys. One said Tool Shed and a smaller one said Dome. I was now holding the keys to the observatory in my own hands! I thought about using them to enter the dome, but I shut down my fantasies of burglary and decided to give them to their rightful owner.

I stood around and looked. In the distance was a road leading into the nearby forest with a Tool Shed. Walking down the road was a middle aged man who looked like he might work here. I called out with my loudest voice, "Hello! Sir? Do you work here?" He yelled back that he did work there. "Are these your keys, Sir?" He said "Yes Sir! These are mine! Where did you find them?" "I pointed down and said "Right there!" He then said "That's impossible! We searched there with metal detectors!" "Well, I did not take them! I come from New York City by way of Arizona and this is my first day here."

"Well, Thank You, Mister!" Oh boy! Now I can open the Tool Shed and get out the lawnmower and cut the lawn!"

We shook hands and I continued my walk around the dome.

After I went to my car and drove down to the motel and drank a Heineken beer and watch satellite TV.

Next day I was at the beach in San Diego and visited my friend who worked for Howard Hughes Scientific Labs.

I should have become an Astrophysicist, but that was wrongfully denied to me.

Today only about two dozen people like me scan the Heavens around the World looking for a Comet or Asteroid we need to deal with.

More people work at the local McDonald's restaurant that look for such heavenly bodies.

Last week, a comet hit Jupiter. That shows all of us the danger I wanted to research and explore, so that our families can live on far into the future.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090724-hubble-jupiter-spot.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis





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