[sho_hn]

Maybe I'm an eternal optimist, but sounds to me like they actually tried to put themselves into space, made the assumption that anything visible past the moon must be further out and were left with "wait, I thought it was supposed to be red?"

Uninformed, but not ignorant and perhaps even interested. I hope your response started with "No, actually, even cooler: ..." and you made a space fan that day.

[i_love_retros]

Have you talked to most people about space? Absolute disinterest. You're optimism is wasted I'm afraid.