Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> When you are in a brightly lit room looking out the window (as you gave 
> in your example), the glass is very important.

  Forget the glass. Remove it. Look out the door. Whatever.

> which is why I gave the example of opening a door and glancing 
> out. Try it: the stars are visible. From what I've read about what the 
> astronauts actually saw, at least when you are facing upward and away 
> from the sun, the stars are perfectly visible.

  Do you know the reason why your pupils get larger and smaller depending
on the amount of light?
  When the pupils get smaller, less light gets through and thus you don't
see dimmer light.
  This is the reason stargazers (those using telescopes) never use white
flaslights but red ones. It takes lots of time for the eyes to adapt to
the darkness.
  You may see *some* stars, the brightest ones, but only a minimal percent.

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