Agnes by Tony Cochran for January 24, 2022

Some of them even fly in formation now. (Looking at you, Elon.) Should we be amazed or horrified?

I’m going to guess and say “billions and billions”.

There are fifty, on a field of blue.

trout should know because she’s a space cadet…

The word balloons sure are readable now. I can even read them without glasses.

“Debris-Light, Debris-Bright, first Debris I see tonight…”

Jimmy Hoffa !

I’m reminded of what dear old Frank said at times like these.

“Look here brother! Who you jivin’ with that Cosmik Debris?”

Some people with really good eyes can just barely see the distant galaxy Andromeda. An observer halfway between that one and our galaxy would see only a few faint smudges and nothing else, no stars, just a dark, featureless sky. All the stars we do see come from a tiny spot in our galaxy known as our local neighborhood.

Trout, Lucy in Peanuts revealed their are TEN stars in the sky.

On any given night about half the stars are on the other side of the world and therefore invisible, so I guess Trout counted 34 and doubled it. Of course, she can see the North Star every night but has likely never seen the Southern Cross, so I’d say 68 is is a rough estimate.

Hahahaha, good ol’ funny-girl Trout with the side-eye again, love it.

My calculator must be messed up. I counted sixty seven.

We can normally on a cloudless, moonless night somewhere between 4,000-6,000 stars.

It’s great that some people in the world just have all the answers.