WEARABLE ASTRO ART
Blanket & Towels
Q: Are you saying blankets are wearable?
A: Absolutely! Have you never been outdoors at night before?! You can WEAR a blanket
wrapped around your waist to keep your legs warm while climbing a stepladder to get your
eye to the eyepiece of a tall telescope. You can WEAR one over your whole body while
reclining in one of our Zero Gravity Chairs as you scan for meteors or just marvel at the Milky
Way. Up to two of your small to medium sized children can WEAR one by being wrapped in a
single blanket while sleeping warmly in that same Zero Gravity chairs, so that you and your
spouse get a respite from parenting to become a romantic couple for an hour or so at our
telescopes.
As much as we Dark Rangers love Douglas Adams and acknowledge his prescience regarding the advent of cell phones and touch-screen tablets, e-books, Wikipedia, etc.; from our own experience, a good fleece blanket might actually be more useful than a towel. Certainly that is true when it comes to staying warm on a cold night at the Dark Ranger Observatory. What's more, even Adams never claimed that a towel could also be a decorative "throw" , a bed spread for a twin bead, or nostalgic wall hanging like our blankets can. We can be certain about that, because we've read everything he had to say about towels including this lengthy passage from book one of his 5-part Trilogy, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
"A towel, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams
Perhaps to make a more sincere homage to Adams we will one day print our Astro Art on towels too. But in the meantime these 50" x 60" synthetic fleece blankets are warmer, softer, bigger, and even more absorbent than any towel we could find.
A: Absolutely! Have you never been outdoors at night before?! You can WEAR a blanket
wrapped around your waist to keep your legs warm while climbing a stepladder to get your
eye to the eyepiece of a tall telescope. You can WEAR one over your whole body while
reclining in one of our Zero Gravity Chairs as you scan for meteors or just marvel at the Milky
Way. Up to two of your small to medium sized children can WEAR one by being wrapped in a
single blanket while sleeping warmly in that same Zero Gravity chairs, so that you and your
spouse get a respite from parenting to become a romantic couple for an hour or so at our
telescopes.
As much as we Dark Rangers love Douglas Adams and acknowledge his prescience regarding the advent of cell phones and touch-screen tablets, e-books, Wikipedia, etc.; from our own experience, a good fleece blanket might actually be more useful than a towel. Certainly that is true when it comes to staying warm on a cold night at the Dark Ranger Observatory. What's more, even Adams never claimed that a towel could also be a decorative "throw" , a bed spread for a twin bead, or nostalgic wall hanging like our blankets can. We can be certain about that, because we've read everything he had to say about towels including this lengthy passage from book one of his 5-part Trilogy, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
"A towel, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams
Perhaps to make a more sincere homage to Adams we will one day print our Astro Art on towels too. But in the meantime these 50" x 60" synthetic fleece blankets are warmer, softer, bigger, and even more absorbent than any towel we could find.
Dark Ranger (TM) Blankets
Dark Ranger™ Blanket - Astrophotography
$27.95
$27.95
Dark Ranger™ Blanket - DeepSkyKelly Art
$27.95
$27.95
