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Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by gen_greyface »

cdubzzz wrote: post #20

Lately I’ve been wondering if an upcoming generation is going to be more anti-technology, or at least anti-smartphone. I’ve got a 2.5 year old who will occasionally say, “put your phone down, daddy”, or even swipe it from my hand (though we of course try to discourage that, hah) when I’m not paying enough attention to him. As he has grown up and started doing this, it has made me much more aware of my phone time and…

smartphones' fate will be similar to television, television provided a new cool way to access content than newspapers/magazines, then came the smartphones which provided even better content which was easily accessible. My point being unless they(upcoming generation) get something that provides better content and ways to access it or they realize that instant access to information is bad, they wont be anti-smartphone.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by laken »

Loughla wrote: post #40
_Microft wrote: post #5

Look at the sky especially now during the lockdown. It's beautiful. I couldn't have imagined how distracting planes were until now that I have seen the sky without them.

Two nights ago a series of 40-50 satellites flew over. It was genuinely disturbing to see. I live where the night sky is dark, and full of stars. It was already pretty out here, but the lockdown, with less air travel, has really helped the sky. And then this line of SUPER bright satellites came over. I think they were part of the Spacex system of satellites. I'm hoping there aren't more coming. They were brighter tha…

You won't see that often; the reason you saw that many at once was due to a satellite deployment a little under a week ago. For the first few days they orbit very close together before separating into their own orbits.

My understanding is that SpaceX is working with astronomers to minimize the impact to the night sky, but there are hiccups like just after a launch.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by dangus »

phoenixdblack wrote: post #41
cdubzzz wrote: post #20

Lately I’ve been wondering if an upcoming generation is going to be more anti-technology, or at least anti-smartphone. I’ve got a 2.5 year old who will occasionally say, “put your phone down, daddy”, or even swipe it from my hand (though we of course try to discourage that, hah) when I’m not paying enough attention to him. As he has grown up and started doing this, it has made me much more aware of my phone time and…

I don't think smartphones will stay with us for very long. They'll probably be replaced by future technologies less clunky (and yes, I am calling smarthphones clunky) in favor of things like glasses, contacts and implants. I think our children won't be "anti-smartphone" in the same vain as we are not "anti-mainframe"

I don’t buy your vision of the future because interacting with things with our hands is the most intuitive interface.

And the idea that we will jump to having our devices being able to read our mind seems like a stretch.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by stronglikedan »

lagilogi wrote: post #4

I cannot see the sky from my apartment. So If have to wait until I leave for work or other reasons. I don't remember my parents having this problem with their newspaper. They did look at the newspaper before the sky every morning.

They also didn't carry their newspapers around and constantly read them all day. I know the article proposes looking at the sky before you look at your phone first thing after waking, but the article probably wouldn't have been written if we checked our phones first thing, and then left them home the rest of the day.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by Robotbeat »

I did this last night. It was awesome. I’m in the city, so I can’t see much, but did see the beautiful crescent Moon (and the dark, barely-visible Earthshine-illuminated portion), very bright Venus nearby, Orion (with a red Betelgeuse whose brightness has now recovered after waning for months), and then I saw a spectacular stream of just-launched, orbit-raising Starlink satellites emit from the North Star and fly past the handle of the Big Dipper. (Plus a couple other non-Starlink satellites earlier.)

(On a side note, it seems that SpaceX has made really good progress on solving the in-service brightness problem of Starlink, and hopes to launch all their satellites—starting with two launches from now—with low enough in-service brightness to be invisible to the naked eye once on-station.) https://spacenews.com/spacex-to-test-starlink-sun-visor-to-r...

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Post by reagular »

sdoering wrote: post #11
reagular wrote: post #7

y'all need to do shabbath

Why? What is it with pushing religious stuff into peoples faces? I believe it is offensive to people who either have a different religion or none at all. One could just say: "You should do a day of digital detox every week. Like for example people do on Shabbat. Or in other ways."

Exactly, that's what I wanted to say. But we are on internet so I use a meme with ironic tone, I was not preaching.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by goda90 »

lagilogi wrote: post #4

I cannot see the sky from my apartment. So If have to wait until I leave for work or other reasons. I don't remember my parents having this problem with their newspaper. They did look at the newspaper before the sky every morning.

How far of a walk to get someplace where you can see the sky? Could you do it in pajamas or would that be socially unacceptable?

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by phoenixdblack »

dangus wrote: post #54
phoenixdblack wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think smartphones will stay with us for very long. They'll probably be replaced by future technologies less clunky (and yes, I am calling smarthphones clunky) in favor of things like glasses, contacts and implants. I think our children won't be "anti-smartphone" in the same vain as we are not "anti-mainframe"

I don’t buy your vision of the future because interacting with things with our hands is the most intuitive interface. And the idea that we will jump to having our devices being able to read our mind seems like a stretch.

I don't think we'll jump straight to mind-controlled (that sounds weird) devices, but I'm pretty confident we'll be there by 2040.

As VR and AR progresses there are great new features like hand tracking, which allows for even higher precision than swiping on your phone. I agree with you, interacting with things through your hands is really intuitive, but I don't think we have unlocked it's full potential.

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