Or maybe if they want to sell drinks, they should use the other bar staple, pretzels. I mean, seriously, who's allergic to them?

Feeding the troll, but... ME! ME ME ME ME ME! I would go in a second. Now, I don't have that kind of money to throw around, (stupid grad school), but I'd be there in a heartbeat.

But see, if you actually had experienced both 5F and 20F regularly, you'd know that while both are fucking cold, there's a world of difference between the two. 20 is about where it's cold, but you can bear to be outside with something nice and warm on. 5 is so fucking cold that it feels like the air itself is burning you. The gradations of the Fahrenheit scale do matter in the lower end.

The worst part is that our teachers used to continually drum into us that "these are the best years of your lives, you'll never be as happy as you are now!"

My arse.

I doubt it.

Mount Wilson doesn't just hold the observatory but also transmission towers for all of the major broadcast TV stations in Los Angeles, as well as a majority of the radio stations, along with transmission towers for a large percentage of emergency responder communications and commercial transmission, such as trucking logistics. Mount Wilson is a major asset, and the fire crews have been preparing the area for several days in order to save the area.

Nothing in life is guaranteed, but in the case of Mount Wilson, it's clear they've been concentrating as much effort saving the complex as they have in making sure the fires don't reach the residential communities in La Canada/Flintridge and La Crescenta.

Anyone who was in Canberra around 2003 is going to find this spookily familiar. The Mount Stromlo Observatory was pretty much destroyed by a bush fire in that year. It was especially sad because it could have been saved except that the firefighters were focused on Canberra suburbs and towns like Tharwa. Also, a CCD they were building for an international telescope got left behind in the panic. Stromlo was historically important but past its best as an observational sight by that time.