They really would
They really would
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The full version hits even deeper.
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I would if I could see any fucking stars
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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.
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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.
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i want to make an automated starlink laserer, i know it's not legal but psh. i also lack the knowledge to do so so it ain't happening here any time soon. i gotta laser all my elon satellites by hand, artisanal like.
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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."
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Is that Arthur Dent?
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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.
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Stargazing in complete darkness is mesmerising, even if you can't see the whole galaxy.
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if we could see them well...
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If you really want to change, do it on lsd
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Sounds like it's time for one of those Men in Black flashy things. Come on, K.
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I'd much prefer it over needing sleep.
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Yeah. Some of them would try to colonize them, or see them as resources to be exploited/ profited from.
Agent Smith was right.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Not at all. Try it, you might understand.
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Thanks to light pollution and pollution pollution just seeing the stars can be hard enough for many
That doesn’t change the message.
True, just makes it harder to send
Feels like that would strengthen the message.
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.
I think it was LA? If I remember right people were calling and observatory and some people thought they were UFOs
This made me think of Asimov's Nightfall...
We can see a planet ot two, sometimes.
we get venus a lot. she's bright.
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.