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re: Do you ever stop to think about what we’re actually looking at when we look at the stars?

Posted on 5/31/26 at 9:25 pm to
Posted by MRTigerFan
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Posted by deltadummy
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 9:29 pm to
Posted by HogBalls
Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 9:31 pm to
The universe is so vast that no way I can ever be convinced that Earth holds the only intelligent life.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 9:37 pm to
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It’s kind of depressing that we will never be able to observe much less visit and explore any of it outside our solar system.

I look at it as there is so much for others to strive for and discover. Look at me, the fricking optimist.
Posted by 9Fiddy
19th Hole
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 9:45 pm to
The most mind blowing to me is that the light we see from those stars is years old. The star may not even actually be there anymore.
Posted by SallysHuman
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 9:45 pm to
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Proximo


Twinkle, twinkle little star
Proximo wonders what you are
When I look above this land
Proximo says you're but a speck of sand

Proximo is high
I am drunk
stars are cool
my hubby is a hunk

Posted by Proximo
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 9:52 pm to
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The most mind blowing to me is that the light we see from those stars is years old. The star may not even actually be there anymore.

Good point actually for your reasoning and the fact that some (we can’t see with the naked eye) definitely aren’t there anymore because:
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objects sufficiently far away from us (about \(14.5 billion light-years away) are actually moving apart faster than the speed of light. This does not violate Einstein's laws, as it is space itself stretching, rather than objects physically moving through space


I need a second margarita to think about this
Posted by GreenRockTiger
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 9:54 pm to
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my hubby is a hunk
pics?
Posted by SallysHuman
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 9:57 pm to
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pics?




Don't you have more children than the old lady that lives in the shoe?? I bet yours is a hunk too!
Posted by SallysHuman
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 9:58 pm to
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I need a second margarita to think about this


Drink up, buttercup... this totally where I parked my car!

Hey, I wrote you a song...
Posted by Proximo
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 9:59 pm to
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Shoe too

You are on a roll with the poems and rhymes
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Posted by SallysHuman
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 10:05 pm to
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You are on a roll with the poems and rhymes


It's the wine, makes me rhyme...
Posted by GreenRockTiger
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 10:06 pm to
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Don't you have more children than the old lady that lives in the shoe??
that is my biography
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I bet yours is a hunk too!

Posted by Jim Rockford
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 10:39 pm to
It's all a simulation.
Posted by weagle1999
Member since May 2025
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 11:21 pm to
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Do you ever stop to think about what we’re actually looking at when we look at the stars?by Proximo


We are looking at the past.
Posted by Indefatigable
Member since Jan 2019
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 11:27 pm to
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Those stars we see in the night sky are only the stars in the Milky Way itself.

We can see Andromeda and a few other galaxies as well.

Highly dependent on light pollution
This post was edited on 5/31/26 at 11:29 pm
Posted by moontigr
Dark Side of the Moon
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 11:41 pm to
I've always thought that stars are comprised of the essence/souls of people who have died - their energy is absorbed by the atmosphere and continues to rise and metamorphoses into stars
This post was edited on 5/31/26 at 11:42 pm
Posted by FutureMikeVIII
Houston
Member since Sep 2011
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Posted on 6/1/26 at 12:36 am to
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I've always thought that stars are comprised of the essence/souls of people who have died - their energy is absorbed by the atmosphere and continues to rise and metamorphoses into stars



Hmmm, that doesn’t sound right
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
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Posted on 6/1/26 at 12:43 am to
When you look out at the stars, you are the universe seeing itself.



Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world
The heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings
But the heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own
Posted by LSUFreek
Greater New Orleans
Member since Jan 2007
16345 posts
Posted on 6/1/26 at 1:23 am to
I think about the fact that our Sun is actually a Star. It is one million times bigger than the Earth, yet it doesn't look that big cuz it is 93 million miles away.

Then I look at those pinpoints of lights in the sky called Stars and realize every single one of them have planets that orbit them, and those stars are actually "Suns" to those orbiting planets. The potential for life existing in those solar systems becomes a bit more tangible if you look at the night sky filled with "Suns".

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