"I'm still here --- somewhere..."
The short answer is that I have been working waaaaaaaaaay too many hours...
I have been working 10 - and 12 - and 15 - hour days -- over the past several weeks.
Also, I generally spend a lot more time on CC reading posts than I do writing them. And, it sometimes takes me a good bit of time to write a post ( if there is any length - or 'depth' - to it ). For the past month or so, I am fairly sure that the time I have spent [ even ] reading them is a lot less than in the weeks previous to that.
After clicking 'Reply With Quote' -- and then sleeping in my chair for over four hours before even typing the first word -- and then taking [ 30 minutes? ] to type the post -- upon finishing the post, I went to add a smiley ( the one you see on the first line of this post ) - and lost the whole thing... (
Grrrrr )
So -- these words are from 'the second time around'.
There is a bit more to what I had intended to say than posthuman is assuming -- there are some "other" things I would like to illustrate and point out -- rather than [ just simply ] "WOW" you with the [ supposed ] size and distance of the sun...
I will try to get some of that into my next post.