"Tales from the Stone Age"

[Rupert Lucius]

Few people in the industrial world have really seen the night sky with all its stars - or been somewhere outdoors where there is no sounds at all. Some late evenings, or nights, can be wonderful. Just lay back onnthe ground and look att the night sig and listen to total silence

Thomas

Thomas and Mark R. - I have experienced some of what you speak to:

In 1965 my first wife and our two children visited Big Bend National Park - (north of the Rio Grande River, Mexico/US Border) I, could hear the bubbles bursting in my soda can (very quiet and peaceful) at night we could see what we believed to be the entire universe.

Other experiences flying oil field essentials from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Calgary, Canada twice a week above the layers of clouds, sometimes over the States that Mark R. mentions really makes one appreciate our earth.  Impossible for me to even dream of what a pilot in a SR 71 Blackbird / Halu  experiences.  Those pilots may become part of our universe while aloft.

Rupert