Howard Bond recalled an evening spent at Cerro Tololo with a viscacha calmly settled just below him, sitting and watching the sunset together until it got dark. As he described it, “Here are these two critters in this vast universe watching this celestial show…this show that may have nothing to do with us…but there it is.”7 From a cosmic perspective, astronomer and viscacha alike are small living things, perched on a mountain, watching our home planet turn.
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