Thanks to light pollution and pollution pollution just seeing the stars can be hard enough for many
That doesn’t change the message.
Feels like that would strengthen the message.
True, just makes it harder to send
“Message not sent. Please connect to WiFi.”
But the songs are in my library! I downloaded them! Why the fuck would I need an internet connection?!
This drives me bananas.
Google Translate: “Download the language packs for use offline.”
am offline
“Cannot connect to the internet.”
What was the fucking point??
This is true for the majority of living humans. We are disconnected from the beauty of the heavens.
i remember reading an article about a blackout in some big US city (can’t remember which), and people called 911 because the sky looked scary. they could see the milky way for the first time.
This made me think of Asimov’s Nightfall…
I think it was LA? If I remember right people were calling and observatory and some people thought they were UFOs
Government tried to reduce the amount of light pollution. People walking their dogs at night complained and many folks just didn’t feel safe anymore without light everywhere.
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if we could see them well…
Oh, look at that pretty twinkling shooting sta- oh shit, that’s another one of elon musk’s pointless billionaire space toys. I can’t even relax by just looking at the stars anymore.
Russia really doubling down with the “bum everybody out in response to good things” brigade, and it’s embarrassing.
Moreso if this is not the words of a person looking to attack a community’s good time.
Lemmy get your shit together.
I would if I could see any fucking stars
there’s an app for that!
(but for real there is, it helps identify stars)
sky map from fdroid
I remember an inspirational poster from my childhood that said something about how the government would get a lot more done if everyone was required to take an afternoon nap.
Is that Arthur Dent?
A tumblr comment may be the source. I don’t see it anywhere else. So allow me to add a quote from 29-days-of-fog that summed up why I lay down and look up for a couple hours on dark trips, why I look up when I walk outside at night
you’ve heard of existential dread and existential horror, now get ready for existential peace, which is that feeling when you stare up at the nightsky and think, “huh. i exist. that’s pretty neat.”
I’ve got this tattooed
That’s a great idea! How did it turn out?
The text is still readable nice one!
Stargazing in complete darkness is mesmerising, even if you can’t see the whole galaxy.
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Too bad we got stuck in a world where most people work 2-3 jobs and don’t have those precious few seconds to look up.
Too bad we got stuck in a world where most people work 2-3 jobs
This is just false. Yes, jobs are underpaid and massive unionization efforts need to take place to fight back against employers. But, 2-3 jobs working people are a small, but growing, minority at this point.
Empty words lmao.
r/im14andthisisdeep
Every one of those stars is another, massive sun with the power to roast any ball of rock orbiting too close. Every single surat out there is a genuine point source of light (no discernible shape) with use of nearly any device available. By naked eye, five of them can be planets - other huge, spinning balls of material that we’ve probed and viewed, and yet, they are so incredibly distant that they’re indistinguishable from stars unless you have s few extra pieces of knowledge. There’s only two bodies we can see by eye that have any shape, being the sun (very huge) and moon (very close). That’s insane. The distances are unfathomable by the human mind. We are not space faring creatures. Other planets are not escapes. This is where we live. This is our planet. It’s the only one we have. And we’re arguing about it being to expensive to help the needy.
Not at all. Try it, you might understand.
Exactly the place for that comment
