took a drive up north away from the city glow to watch the perseid meteor shower at its peak with jean the other night. this is some of the coolest stuff to me: watching debris, ancient in the truest form of the word, hurtle from the depths of our solar system towards earth at incredible speeds and plainly visible to the naked eye. "dust" from a comet that takes 130 years - generations - to orbit the sun enters the earth's shield of gases and ignites into a blaze. momentarily leaving a signature on the backdrop of a thousand visible stars and their respective non-visible planetary systems, with a smoke tail illuminated for an extra few seconds. at least to me, the idea of space seems so one-dimensional when we happen to look up at night. this makes it a bit more realistic to me, watching space violently throw itself toward us.
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