Life Precious or Cheap?
How precious is your Life?
And when I think of that....
The very hairs of your head are all numbered...
Like counting all the more than 100 billion neurons
( nerve cells ) in ones brain..
or the information capacity in a single human cell..
It's like counting the stars....
Or like all the stars in the sky more then just the eye
can see..

Counting the Stars...

Have you ever gazed up at a star -filled night sky ....
and wondered how many stars you could see ?

Sky and Telescope magazine recently addressed this age-old question,
and the answer is not as simple to find as one might assume...
The magazine noted that according to astronomy reference works,
the observer can see 2,862 stars in the skies over a fairly
dark suburb in northern latitudes..

But not all these stars are above the local horizon at any given time;
many rise and set..
Furthermore , many stars that are easily visible when directly overhead are invisible when nearer the horizon.
That is because at such low altitudes, the star's light must pass through
more of earth's atmosphere in order to reach an observer's eyes..

Sky and Telescope concludes that for an observer at a latitude of 40 degrees north , some 1,809 stars would be visable throughout the year..