Absolutely agree! Earlier this year I spent hours each day watching the live feed from Hubble repair mission. The occasional info from the 'commentator' was enough. What would be interesting is to have less restrained astronauts. An occasional oh shit! as a wrench flies away would liven things up.

Agreed. Ken seems to be getting more and more unhinged these days. He must be forgetting his meds.

Bzzzt, wrong. Maybe you better spend a few more minutes outside after looking at that computer monitor. It takes awhile for your eyes to dark adapt.

I live in the midwest where we do get a bunch of moisture in the air. While it does affect the transparency of the atmosphere only about 1 magnitude is lost.http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/astro/transpar ence_e.html/

What makes the increased moisture level bad is the local light pollution that now has additional particles (of water) to reflect off creating a 'less dark' sky.