ET> Anyone get a chance to look for comet Holmes?
  
 WD> Yesterday I flew back from Hartford CT to Amsterdam and at 37,000
 WD> feet had an excellent unobstructed view ... without a telescope of
 WD> course ... but I knew where to look for it.
  
 WD> Amazing, at that altitude you get great sights from an airplane
 WD> window, even with the naked eye. But by neighbour thought I was
 WD> behaving odd not doing like most people in an airplane do, i.e.
 WD> looking down.

wonder what he'd have thought if you'd have shown him the ISS and/or
STS-120 floating above ;)

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