I saw a rocket launch at night once, I was with a school group on a southern California beach, near Vandenberg Air Force Base. I think it was a satellite launch because it wasn't publicized, we just saw this giant sort of firework heading up and up and up into the upper atmosphere, then a burst of light and a cone-shaped cone of light spread out from where the rocket had released the first stage and fired the second. It was the weirdest thing, and totally unexpected.
Then I went to Antarctica, and realized that the phrase "living ice" didn't just refer to the fact that the ice cap moves at glacial speed. The ice really felt alive, and like the dominant life form.
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