Answer to Max Schreck

Spoken at some point in the outmoded future.

"He also said—pointedly—that space travel nowadays was an escape from the problems of Earth. That is, one took off for the stars in the hope that the worst would happen and be done with in once"s absence. And indeed I couldn't deny that more than once I had peered anxiously out the porthole—especially when returning from a long voyage—to see whether or not our planet resembled a burnt potato."

Brilliance after the storm

The aftermath of the epic battle with the snowstorm to end all snowstorms? An azure sky, with wisps of white clouds above the strewn bodies of snowmen and Dept. of Sanitation workers. Magnificent.

Aerosol ideology

"The sun is setting on Cold War ideologies."

Volcanic aerosols continue to provide us with spectacular colors during twilight.