QUESTION:
How can you see stars, etc. when you are moving at such high speeds?

ANSWER from Allan Meyer on May 5:
Moving at high speed usually does not make it hard to look at
distant objects with your eyes or a telescope, as long as
you are moving smoothly.  When you are riding in a car down the
freeway at 60 miles an hour, you can look out the window at a
distant horse in a field, or a tree on a hilltop, with no
problem.  You can also look up at a cloud in the sky.  If it's
at night, you can look out the car window at the stars in the
sky, and they don't seem to be left behind just because the car
you are riding in is speeding down the freeway.  Eventually the
horse in the field or the tree on the hill do get left behind,
because they are not very far away.  The much more distant moon
or stars do not appear to be left behind you, whether you are
being carried around to the other side of the round earth.