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Old October 31st 18, 04:17 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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Default Neil DeGrasse Tyson headed down same loony road as Carl Sagan?

The Northern European cultures once celebrated the great annual cycle on this night with its counterpart on May 1st as nature goes into dormancy or emerges into complete bloom around these dates. It coincides with Polar night after 6 weeks of twilight at the North Pole as that latitudinal point along with the entire Northern hemisphere turns away from the Sun as a function of the orbital motion of the Earth.

Most people are cool and feel the changes as this is where all Northern hemisphere people come together as the golden leaves start to disappear from the trees and hedges -

https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/1911215...92050/?lp=true

You poor people can't let things go in order to be refreshed by perspectives that are before you every moment of your lives but choose to waste your talents on things that do not matter. That being the case it is much easier to show what is good about astronomy and the links between cause and effects both in general and in detail.