Thanks to light pollution and pollution pollution just seeing the stars can be hard enough for many
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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That doesnβt change the message.
True, just makes it harder to send
βMessage not sent. Please connect to WiFi.β
But the songs are in my library! I downloaded them! Why the fuck would I need an internet connection?!
This drives me bananas.
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What was the fucking point??
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.
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
when that last comet, the one that was faint and had that neat tail? it came by? sky map was helpful for locating it
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 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.
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."
Is that Arthur Dent?
Could go one of two ways, math, or human sacrifice.
The sad thing is how close we are to getting into a space civilization and so much more but how we can't get our shit together long enough or priorities straight. One m-type astroid accessed in low Earth orbit β there are several already there β has more mineral wealth than all that humans have ever accessed in the Holocene on the surface of this gravity prison with its differentiated gravitationally sequestered artificial resource scarcity that hoards all the good stuff in the core. All we have are the scraps that have landed on the surface after it solidified and got mixed around. The m is for metal. Those are remnants of differentiated, read - concentrated, cores of planetesimals. That kind of wealth makes resource scarcity obsolete and creates both wealth and infrastructure resources to get into space colonies. Space colonies cannot have waste systems. Their primary constraint is heat radiated into space. The wealth to fund and create such a sustainable environment fixes much of what we fail at now. It moves populations into space too. We've known about how to build the stations since Dr. O'Neill did the studies in the 1970s about only using established materials science and engineering to create the O'Neill cylinders at up to 9 kilometers in diameter and 30 kilometers long with just steel and concrete. The wonder of such innovation would accelerate our passage into the next age of technology β biology. One day the masters of biology will look back and pity us in our primitive stone age of silicon. The foundations of that world are stones of the future orbiting around us now.
That is what I see when I look up. I see the twinkling reflections of cislunar stations much brighter than the background stars, a place where most humans live a few centuries from now. It is a remarkable place after the end of the age of scientific discovery at the beginning of the engineered expansion, but still centuries from my Parsec 7 that I call home.
if we could see them well...
Stargazing in complete darkness is mesmerising, even if you can't see the whole galaxy.
I've got this tattooed
That's a great idea! How did it turn out?
The text is still readable nice one!
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.
If you really want to change, do it on lsd
Sounds like it's time for one of those Men in Black flashy things. Come on, K.
I'd much prefer it over needing sleep.
Yeah. Some of them would try to colonize them, or see them as resources to be exploited/ profited from.
Agent Smith was right.
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.