The Stuff Dreams (and philosophies) Should Be Made of

Reading the paper this morning - an ironic way of putting it, since I was actually reading my computer screen and the web - I read this:

Light moves at tremendous speed, but it is still a finite speed, and thus when we look into space we are seeing the past. Telescopes are time machines. The deeper we look, the farther back in time we see. The Hubble Space Telescope can see all the way back to about one billion years after the origin of the universe. The Webb will look even farther.

And am suddenly reminded why I wanted to be the first writer in residence on Mars.

Check out the whole article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051102061.html?hpid=opinionsbox1