• Cloudless ☼@feddit.uk
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    7 months ago

    When I was young I saw the night sky with the milky way clearly visible. I never got the chance to see it again.

    I travelled to the top of a remote mountain free of any light pollution or air pollution. It was a dark night with new moon. The sky was completely clear. I still had good eyesight at that time.

    The starry night sky was magnificent and mesmerizing.

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      7 months ago

      This is a weirdly universal statement for an anecdotal experience. If one were to go to an actually remote location, many miles from any city, I don’t know of any reason that the stars wouldn’t be visible.

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          7 months ago

          I went from living in a 9 or 10 to a 3 on that scale, and it blows my mind every time I look up at night. I literally did not believe my own eyes the first timei saw it all.

          You really do feel connected to the past realizing this is the same sky we’ve had the entire time we’ve been on this planet.

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            7 months ago

            Most of the stars we see are several thousand light-years away from Earth. That means we are seeing the stars’ past as well.

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            7 months ago

            Except then you learn that even this “unchanging” sky changed A LOT from the distant past to today!

            Like sure most stars where always visible in the sky (always being relative to homo sapiens looking up at the sky and being able to communicate with each other verbally) but their position might have been different…

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          7 months ago

          So you went to stargaze on a cloudy night and your takeaway is that nobody can see the stars anymore? Yeah, that’s a bizarre conclusion.

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              7 months ago

              I’m not really sure how else to understand it, tbh. Unless you meant things you don’t see anymore, which wasn’t really the point of the thread.