• bss03@infosec.pub
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    3 days ago

    You never know what you are going to get. Her husband, both my maternal grandparents, my mother, my brother, and a cousin all predeceased her and it’s likely my father will too.

    I expect I will check out early to avoid the pain of socialetal collapse due to climate crisis, but maybe I’ll stick around long enough to see Halley’s Comet again.

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      3 days ago

      That is actually one of the things I look forward to. I was 10 when it came and think I’ll be in my 70s (?) when it comes again. I remember looking up at it and wondering what it will be like to see it again.

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        So many humans never get a chance to see it more than once. It will be special, I think. 2061. I’ll be 81 if I make it.

        This is the first orbit of the comet that human society was able to track it the whole trip. You can find telescope photos of when it turned around this time.