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there I was being a regular kid until I
was nine and one a weekend we went to
the Hayden
planetarium right here in New York City
and all right it's just another museum
until they turn out the
lights and the stars come
out back then space shows were live and
so there's this voice we're now in the
universe and here are the
stars you're looking up you don't see
anybody you just hear this voice so it's
like the universe is talking to me and
there was a sky unlike that which I've
ever seen having been born and raised in
New York and there you are immersed
bathed in the
cosmos and that can be quite influential
on a 9-year-old as it was on me it's as
as though you were locked in a room your
whole life and then somebody opens a
window to a universe to the
universe 2 years later my parents bought
me my first
telescope then I saw the sky as sort of
the universe had intended it to be seen
bringing the moon to me as never before
that was it I was
hooked from then on I wanted to be an
astrophysicist what's fun fun about
telescopes is that if you've never
looked through one and then you look
through one for the first time at the
moon or at Saturn it is
astonishing Saturn has rings oh my gosh
the moon has craters things you've heard
about and read about but to experience
them
yourself becomes a singular moment in
your life you are there in the universe
and you can't get enough of
it from then to this day when I look up
at the night sky from spectacular Vistas
mountain tops middle of the ocean I look
up and when I see the night sky I say
that reminds me of the Hayden
planetarian in fact looking back on it I
would say that weekend the universe
called
me