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Space Dreams (mander.xyz)

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 99 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is a great template for so many things

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 day ago

[-] piefood@feddit.online 16 points 1 day ago

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

[-] errer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

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

[-] anothercatgirl 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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.

[-] prole 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] anothercatgirl 2 points 20 hours ago

No that's an actual astronomical event

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Eyy bby, want some planetary star transits?

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I got to watch mercy sun transit through his telescope.

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

[-] anothercatgirl 2 points 20 hours ago

No, that's not related to astronomy

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

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

[+] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] callyral@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

Perspective is everything, perception is reality.

[-] BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 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