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[–] [email protected] 129 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately Earth is mostly below the horizon for this one. :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

RemindMe: Earth rises above the Earth's horizon, for easy viewing!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I live in a valley so the Earth rises in the north and south

[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And now over to Bobo for today's weather: .... ACK, ACK, WAAAAA, ACK, ACK, AAAAAAA!!!!!!! ... (feces thrown at camera) .... ACK, AAAAHHHHH, AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

And 30% of the time, Bobo nails it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I didn't know anyone named Bobo works at Fox News.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (3 children)

We were playing a music trivia game and the question was "what planet did david bowie sing about life on?"

And my buddy says "earth?" Lmao

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It applies to most songs lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You could argue it applies to all songs in some sense (at least, the ones we've heard).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure there have been original compositions on space stations before, the people up there should be nerdy enough…

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (4 children)

An extremely rare planetary alignment will take place on February 28, 2025. Don't miss it — an event like this won’t happen again this decade!

In the evening, just after sunset, seven planets — Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars — will align in the sky. Four of them (Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars) will be easily visible to the naked eye. For Uranus and Neptune, get a pair of binoculars or a small telescope. Saturn will be the most difficult target to see — you'll need to know the exact time for your exact location as the planet hangs close to the Sun.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

i hate when people use vague blocks of time to refer to something that we know with 100% certainty.

"YOU WILL NOT BE AWAKE SOMEWHERE WITH THE PERIOD OF APPROXIMATELY 12 HOURS FROM NOW, DO NOT MISS YOUR CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING TODAY"

are we talking like, once every decade, once every two decades, once a century? I gotta have a reference frame here.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I'm not so sure about the binoculars part there... I have an 8" dobsonian telescope and I have a hard time finding those two.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I saw Saturn from a suburban street a week or two ago just after sunset, near the moon and Venus, and it was visible, though my elderly mother in law couldn't see it

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's right there along the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I was gonna say.

Nearly everything one observes year round is Earth. Even your clothes and the cloud of your warm breath when you are out observing the alignment in the cold is Earth.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Useless red circle.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for reminding me that this website exists

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wait a minute, that's not the order I've learned. Have we been lied to about MVEMJSUNP?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Well, the P is silent.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

you're talking about the order from the sun, but that's not necessarily how it has to appear in our sky. It's like how the stars in orion's belt are actually stupidly far from each other, and from their perspective they have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I never see Earth in the sky.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

You ain't been high enough.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Me neither. Don't you find that suspicious?? What else are they hiding from us!? Do they think we're stupid????

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

You can see both it and the moon from Mars. So that's fun

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Response: "... Look down."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

It's one of your last... sounds like a threat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He commented that right after texting his gf asking her to call his phone because he can’t find it

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Years ago, I think I remember seeing a screenshot- could have been from Quora, where someone was asking why we haven’t sent astronauts to the sun.

I lost a pretty big chunk of my faith in humanity that day.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Just fly at night if you worry it's too hot

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

The sun? But that’s the hottest place on earth

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I lead stargazing classes with my city parks, and I can tell you that it's pretty much impossible to find earth in the night sky.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know where you're searching, but the earth is usually pretty visible at the horizon.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It's right here dude.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Aren’t they always on the plane of the elliptic though?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah but you can't always see them all together.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How is that an alignment though? It’s not like MacGuyver or Lara Croft is going to have to stop some baddies from assembling ancient artefacts in a particular room to unleash arcane terrors into the world just because the planets are sort-of visible together in the sky.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's an alignment because if you look up at it they're in a line. That's what alignment means, Lara Croft and ancient artifacts are optional.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

ecliptic, yes they are

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