Blogger Exquisite was right. I really do have something with stars and astronomy.
I was at my chotay taya's place for dinner, out in his courtyard and the lights suddenly went out. It was pitch black. But just as i looked up, i was astonished. The sky was the prettiest i had seen in a long time.
Khair this is not really the topic of the post. I reclined on a pillow watching the stars, fighting mosquitoes and accompanying flying species. Suddenly i couldn't stand the temptation of counting the stars anymore. I started counting, ek do teen...after 42 i shifted to english though i know puri urdu ki counting. Anyways, when i reached 76, i forgot where i started and which stars i already counted. I started again and forgot. My cousin said "ho gaey count?"
i replied "nae ho saktay count"
he opined again "han nae ho saktay"
but i couldn't cope with this resignation. Man is so intelligent, there must be some way. I thought i need to find that way.
I found it.
The trick is to make a ring out of your index finger and thumb, keep it at a distance of one foot from your eyes, and start from the bottom right corner of the sky. Now look through the ring and count the stars inside the ring. Do this first with your right hand then place your left hand (the ring made out of your index finger and thumb) on top of the right, and repeat the process. Cover the whole sky doing this and you can easily count the stars.
I did almost a quarter of the sky, i got to 50. This is indeed a very good method and very effective in counting stars. Very easy, very accurate.
*Sigh* i wish it was true.
7 comments:
hmmm
born hidden Astronaut :D
boi u tempt me to write a post on something space-related too ... in fact, after Ramadhan, i have been interested more than ever in science-fiction and non-fiction alike ... hmmm, wonder who has been my influence? *winks*
and regarding ur post, doesn't counting the uncountable gives you the perspective of how small we are when the entire universe is taken as a reference...
If you won't mind me requesting, please have some more space-related posts... you have just opened a Pandora box for ureself *evil laughs*
@ڈفر
haha well said, very true
@exquisite
hmmm, well well well, so its two astronauts (i prefer cosmonauts they sound much cooler). Okay lets see there will be more posts of the same kind inshaAllah. The good thing about science is that science non fiction is much more fascinating than even science fiction! Reality is really stranger than imagination. Or shall we saw, we normal humans limit our imagination, which is a pity.
Anyways you're soooo very right. When we look at such stuff, we realise how small we are. And look at us, to make ourselves important, we've constructed small worlds around us, so small that they revolve around us and people we want it to revolve around. Very few amongst us can break free from our small worlds.
Btw i'm waiting for you to write a post on something space related.
*rubs hands in excitement*
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your wish is my command... :p
okay all dis star gazing is becomin a bit borin now...
also by simple laws of geometry u can create infinite such rings if you are in an open space....
also... it is so much cooler to count in urdu... n see people freak out if u tell them a number in urdu :D !!!
what r u doin in uet u shud b in dat spaces sciences institute opened at dear old isloo.. if i remember correctly that is, with ur infatuatuion wid da stars, clouds, universe n what not!
@lost in rome
yar i'm doing stellar and cosmo mechanics at uet,
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Haha no just kidding. Yar i wanted to do that, but lets see, there's still time, i'll do something inshaAllah in the future.
@lost in rome
yar i'm doing stellar and cosmo mechanics at uet,
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Haha no just kidding. Yar i wanted to do that, but lets see, there's still time, i'll do something inshaAllah in the future.
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