Which came first, lack of infrastructure to handle a pandemic like COVID-19, or the COVID-19 pandemic? I can't think of a more cogent question today. Virtually everything today that isn't "working" well is being blamed on COVID-19, and, well, maybe to some extent that's true. COVID-19 is the spark that ignited interest in all the failings of our current infrastructures from politics, to government, economics, transportation, education, social services (my furloughed partner has been waiting f...

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In an attempt to calm down after the craziness of the presidential election, I pulled out my telescope and directed it south over Honolulu looking early evening for Jupiter and Saturn. The night air is usually humid, saturated with diffused light from the city, and infused with light from a tropical moon, but last night was the exception. It was cool, dry and I was able to catch Saturn as clear as I've ever seen it, with my little Celestron 114 with Baader Planetarium Hyperion Mark III Zoom 2...