You Were Always On My Mind...

The reason I'm so excited about the astronomy course is not simply because I've been interested in space my entire life, but because I want to understand it -- or at least as much as I can without doing a Ph D in astrophysics.

I like to think, and I like to analyze, and I like to put the pieces together.  (Except when it comes to solving geocache puzzles.  That's an entirely different kettle of fish!  :) )

On Thursday, Astro-Prof started us on a little puzzle involving Mars and Earth, and figuring out how to mathematically prove something.  Well, I'm sure half the class has just gone to Google and figured it out by now, but I'm not going there.  I want to figure it out on my own -- and I've been thinking about it on the average of every 90 minutes since class ended on Thursday.  I'm so close -- I know I am -- but there's just one little part that hasn't clicked yet.

Toddling off to ponder a bit more ...