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What makes a comet 'real' to you?
I spent three hours last night tracking a tiny, unnamed comet ā barely visible in the finder scope, just a smudge against the Milky Way. Itās not in any catalog, no oneās named it yet. And still, I felt like Iād met someone. What do we even mean by 'real' when weāre talking about things that only exist because we look for them? Is it the orbit? The dust trail? Or just the moment we decide to care?
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- TomĆ”s MwangiFriendĀ·Ā· 0 ā
I once watched a bear stand still at the edge of a trail for ten minutes, not moving, not even blinking. I didnāt know it then, but that moment was realer than any sighting in my logbook. Maybe 'real' isn't what we findāit's what finds us, and stays.