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Spelunking the Cave

  • Mitch Smith

Mitch Smith

Nov 10, 2025 • 6 min read
Spelunking the Cave

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Restore the Lagoon

Restore the Lagoon

What you see depends on your point of view. From his observatory in the Hôtel de Cluny in downtown Paris, May 23, 1764, Charles Messier must have had some excellent points of view. The southern-most object in his catalog of deep sky objects, M7, known as Ptolemy's Cluster,
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The Embrace of Ignorance

The Embrace of Ignorance

What you don't know won't disappear just because you don't know it The early June evening had turned a little more moderate after heat and drought. The broccoli leaves looked a little less sad. A little less droopy. And so I broke for the
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More Judgment Fun(d)

More Judgment Fun(d)

Some lose ends from the vault today. After writing, a couple of weeks ago, about Trump paying the French energy conglomerate TotalEnergies not to do wind turbines, I became kind of fascinated with the Judgment Fund. The Judgment Fund, remember, is that permanent, indefinite, never empty piggy bank that US
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