The Ann Arbor District Library invites you to join our online discussion of the 2009 Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads title Seeing In The Dark: How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering The Wonders Of The Universe, by Timothy Ferris. 2009 marks the International Year of Astronomy and the 400th anniversary of the first astronomical observation through a telescope by Galileo. Here are a few questions to get the discussion rolling: Have you ever seen a really dark, starry night? What did you think about and how did you feel? What was the first object you saw through a telescope that got you hooked on observing the night sky? Compare viewing the sky through a telescope versus seeing it with the naked eye. Add your comments below.
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Should government continue to support science?
And another new question: Why, as a species, do we need night?