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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

This is a great template for so many things

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

This meme-template should be titled something like "the modern education system"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

My physics teacher was a hobbyist astronomer, on the morning of my birthday I got to watch mercy sun transit through his telescope.

Edit: Wikipedia link describing what I saw in the telescope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Mercury

If you had something else in mind please get your head out of the gutter.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

on the morning of my birthday I got to watch mercy sun transit through his telescope.

Is... this a euphemism for sex? Lol. If not, it should be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Eyy bby, want some planetary star transits?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

No that's an actual astronomical event

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I got to watch mercy sun transit through his telescope.

Did he also fix it for you to milk a cow blindfolded?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

No, that's not related to astronomy

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Haha I wish being an astronomer involved staring at the sky instead of staring into a computer screen…

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This actually made me tear up. What the fuck is wrong with me?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

You are perfectly fine, the world has gone crazy and you feel it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I don't think the author have any idea at all about what astronomers actually do...

[+] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, I can. 30% of Americans are actively antiscience/reality and they for sure enforce it on their kids. Another 40% honestly don't give a fuck and again show that apathy to their kids. Leaves 30% who care but doesn't exclude those who are limited by socioeconomics.

You talk to people and realize their parents never drove them out of the light pollution late at night to see a meteor shower or comet pass by never showed them any of the constellations, etc. Applies to all science really but astronomy is often put on the wayside even more than others because a lot of people really aren't curious about space anymore. We've seen this with NASA funding since the end of the Apollo missions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think they mean "staring into space" as in "staring into the distance during class"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Perspective is everything, perception is reality.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They always say insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results yet we respect meteorologist about how the weather would be everyday and plan our days accordingly. Science is not just towards everything. System is rigged :-p

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

My weird ass gifts have kept me from dying, I guess. I'm just waiting for my medal now.

.... Any day now....