Sorry, never experienced this. Not even under conditions where it was cold enough to write my name in the snow, and I had enough in the 'tank' to do it twice...

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Only one? Dude, it's 2011. We should have been doing much more by now...

If you expose long enough (and/or use an aperture setting large enough) to bring out the stars, you seriously overexpose bright, nearby objects of interest, like Earth or ISS. (or the Lunar surface, as Moon-hoax conspiracy theorists rarely understand...all they expose is their inexperience with photography).

More on that here:

Only mad dogs and Englishmen...

If you feel that way, stay away from the original novel...

If at first you don't succeed, try, try a gun....

What's the difference between a 'dolphin' and a 'porpoise?' The former may be kicking the latter's ass...

Sidemount uses the same infrastructure, basic design, and standing army required for operation, that helped make the Shuttle too cost-ineffective to continue to operate...

As if the Shuttle were the last word in orbital spacecraft for all time...

I've had a few Milky Way bars, myself...

I always liked this exterior view of...whatever their 'galaxy far, far away' was...

It's just cluelessness. Trust me on this.

Hmmm. A one-liner someone at an SF con laid on me long ago:

Yep. There's a difference.

Jet, schmet. The electric blue pants are gone!

Do you need a Chauffeur's License to operate a galaxy?

Sure it'll happen. We can tell Andromeda's coming right at us. Redshift/Doppler Effect doesn't lie.

No, if you're immortal (and have the patience of one), you sit back and watch the show slowly (and I can't emphasize the slowness enough) unfold.