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well, psh, here're some cool pictures of your own place then, eh?

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100419.html

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110517.html

Hullo! I'm an astronomer in the U.S. I see a lot of great pictures coming out of Iceland--I was wondering if you had any experience with or interest in the star-gazing outside of Reykjavik. If so, what is your favorite site that you have seen? If not, what is your favorite constellation?

Ta, thanks for your time :)

Hallo!

I have the following congenital heart defects: a mild coarctation, and my tricuspid valve is a bicuspid.

Doctors always seem surprised that I haven't had surgery for these things when I was a baby. How rare are these conditions, and would surgery really have been all that helpful?