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What are those...THINGS, in the sky?? Someone help!!

submitted by xtra_spooky_skellington to cringe 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 11:47:05 ago (+39/-1)     (files.catbox.moe)

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[ - ] PearofAnguishJuniorManager 0 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 15:49:37 ago (+0/-0)

I haven’t seen the hazy river of packed stars as I looked out across flat plain of the Milky Way, since I was a kid in the 70’s. Light pollution drowns it out.

[ - ] FalseRealityCheck 0 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 20:20:36 ago (+0/-0)

[ - ] watts2db 0 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 21:26:52 ago (+0/-0)

aircrew flying over the pacific

[ - ] OldGoat 0 points 2.4 yearsJun 22, 2022 00:13:06 ago (+0/-0)

I have a hard time believing people could be afraid of stars.

[ - ] TheViciousMrPim 1 point 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 11:54:27 ago (+1/-0)

What is even the purpose of that

Purpose? The universe? I mean, I hope you packed a lunch.

[ - ] xtra_spooky_skellington [op] 3 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 12:04:06 ago (+4/-1)

And a towel.

[ - ] TheViciousMrPim 0 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 13:14:19 ago (+0/-0)

lol, well played

[ - ] GoldenAgeWhen 1 point 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 14:39:20 ago (+1/-0)

yeah, that's up there with the jq.

[ - ] Trumpman1488 1 point 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 14:39:56 ago (+1/-0)

Nothing is better than seeing the center of our galaxy. I have to drive way out of the city to see it but i can look at it for hours.

[ - ] con77 1 point 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 15:15:46 ago (+1/-0)

I was on a ship at sea and looked at the sky through a night vision device. You'd be astounded. Theres a solid blanket of stars everywhere. About 1000x more than you can see.

[ - ] xtra_spooky_skellington [op] -1 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 15:40:56 ago (+0/-1)

Why isn't the sky completely lit up with starlight? There's a light source at every pixel in the sky if you go far enough out. Last I heard this is still unexplained. Lends weight to the simulation theory if you ask me.

[ - ] con77 1 point 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 21:07:41 ago (+1/-0)

most of the stars are millions of light years away. The light grows faint at that distance.

[ - ] xtra_spooky_skellington [op] 0 points 2.4 yearsJun 22, 2022 18:19:35 ago (+0/-0)

There's quite a bit more to it than that. It really only makes sense if you're on the expanding universe bandwagon, which assumes my point but adds in redshifting as the reason for much of what originated as visible light moving into nonvisible microwave territory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox

[ - ] FalseRealityCheck 1 point 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 19:57:58 ago (+1/-0)

LOL; I've known a number of visiting urbanites who freaked out when I took them out on a moonless night. I would always reassure them with this: "Universe gives absolutely no fucks about you or any issues you might have."

[ - ] oldblo 2 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 13:27:00 ago (+2/-0)*

Thats an entirely fair reaction to things that remind you youre suspended in a chaotic endless cold void.
Its normal that one does not wish to be reminded of the vast sky full of inhospitable space and numerous potential extinction level events that have only avoided us thus far by chance.

[ - ] deleted 1 point 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 13:32:50 ago (+1/-0)

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[ - ] oldblo 0 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 13:36:38 ago (+0/-0)

I dont think anyone does. I mean even if you are ok with having near zero impact on the universe its still freaky to think about how we are naught but cosmic dust.

[ - ] deleted 1 point 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 13:39:50 ago (+1/-0)

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[ - ] watts2db 0 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 21:30:17 ago (+0/-0)

same here been ok with this notion most of my life as well

[ - ] Hadza 0 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 14:36:07 ago (+0/-0)

It's not nearly as nearly zero as you think it is

[ - ] watts2db 0 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 21:28:57 ago (+0/-0)

I find it fascinating though

[ - ] Broc_Liath 2 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 14:09:41 ago (+2/-0)

That was a major part of a plot by a sci-fi author called Peter F Hamilton. An event happened which allowed the souls of the restless dead to possess humans. They took over whole planets but the sight of the night sky terrified them because it reminded them of the emptyness of death, so they used their powers to cover the sky and eventually take the planet to another lower-energy dimension where there was no void.

First book is "the reality dysfunction" if anyone's interested.

That account is suspended so I'm going to guess it was a troll: https://twitter.com/CU_SWA_ausch

[ - ] ruck_feddit 4 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 12:30:10 ago (+4/-0)

I remember back in the 90s reading about a clear night in LA during a blackout and the bands of the milky way freaked people out. Dumb niggers.

[ - ] deleted 4 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 13:22:01 ago (+4/-0)

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[ - ] Jiggggg 2 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 15:50:18 ago (+2/-0)

Yeah it's really something. I live in a fairly rural area and it's still not dark enough to really see what it's supposed to look like. I've only seen a truly dark sky once and it was almost overwhelming. It looked like someone had spilled a bottle of glitter across a piece of black felt. Every inch of the sky had stars in it.

[ - ] MayhemInChief 1 point 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 17:55:50 ago (+1/-0)

I've seen it from Death Valley, which is probably as good as I'll ever see. It literally looked like one of those Hubble photographs.

[ - ] Jiggggg 1 point 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 18:49:43 ago (+1/-0)

Man that sounds incredible

[ - ] bonghits4jeebus 0 points 2.4 yearsJun 22, 2022 00:46:33 ago (+0/-0)

The first time I ever saw it for real I think was on a small-ish boat in the middle of the ocean, on night watch with most of the lights off.

I have seen it from the backcountry, too, but there's usually trees and shit around. At sea, with all land beyond the horizon, you see the whole hemisphere. Plus you know almost by definition far from light sources, although if you're on a cruise ship or an oil right maybe not.

[ - ] UndercoverGoyim 6 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 13:55:29 ago (+6/-0)

Obvious satire account

[ - ] watts2db 1 point 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 21:25:35 ago (+1/-0)

poe’s law

[ - ] Glowbright 9 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 12:46:48 ago (+9/-0)

Aush phD 5'4 83 IQ

If you have an IQ of 83 why the hell would you advertise it?!?!?

...oh yeah, an IQ of 83.

[ - ] Youdgetfuckedfaggot 5 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 13:22:07 ago (+5/-0)

This is an autist replying to a role playing autist. They're likely the same person.

[ - ] xmasskull 2 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 13:31:34 ago (+2/-0)

phD,in this case,stands for: Pizza Home Delivery

[ - ] Autismo 0 points 2.4 yearsJun 21, 2022 15:47:29 ago (+0/-0)

Your IQ is <=82