clouds
This morning, flying over the Basin and Range Province, a few of the higher peaks floated likely snowcapped islands in a sea of white.
Astronomy would have had a very different progression had our world been perpetually covered by clouds.
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The Five Ages 
Hi Greg,
Perhaps not quite so different. I recall that in
Eddington’s classic book, “The Internal Constitution
of Stars”, that he argues that an astronomer living on a perpetually cloud covered planet would still be able to conclude that stars must exist. So if stars could exist then it would not be too much of a stretch to think that stellar systems might also exist.
David
April 28, 2011 at 3:15 am