Isn't the sun supposed to rise due east? I was taught that. I thought that a couple of years ago the sunrise would light areas inside my house I hadn't noticed before. I've lived in my St. Louis home since September of 1999, and in January of 2008 I noticed that the sun seemed to be rising more north than it used to be. I figured I must just not have ever noticed it quite like this before, because surely the position of the sun wouldn't have changed?

When I was young I used to love to see skywriters! I thought it was cool how they could make lines in the sky with their planes and form letters and stuff. Skywriting like that seemed to go away, or perhaps I just didn't take note of it as I did when younger. Since about the turn of the Millenium, I've noticed a new form of skywriting, I wonder, in celebration of our next 1,000 years? I do know we are being told that these are actually contrails!

In our society's eyes, I'm just a common man. I don't have a college degree. I have no real "certificates of knowledge." I am not a scientist, but I wonder why, if the Earth's axis has changed, or we've lost a layer of atmosphere, they haven't told us?

To the Outside Door.