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Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by FeepingCreature »

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…

Here's my perspective on it. "It's the year 2100, and" ...

1. Lots of lights are moving all over the night sky.

2. There are only stars visible in the night sky.

Considering the implications, which of those two futures sounds preferable?

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by grawprog »

shlant wrote: post #19
oaiey wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Especially considering, that the printed old-fashioned Newspaper (at least if you select the right one!!!) has a professional writers and a more calm perspective on the world than social media and everything what we consume as media nowadays.

the bar has certainly been lowered about as far as it can be in terms of who can share their ideas/beliefs. It's a double-edged sword of previously unheard of freedom of speech and an unending supply of lies/bullshit/deception/ignorance. It makes cultivating a strong level of discernment one of the most necessary skills for surviving (sometimes literally) in todays world.

Yet the national inquirer, the daily star etc. Have been purchasable in front of nearly every checkout stand for at least my entire life. Lies/bullshit/deception and ignorance are nothing new.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by ver_ture »

dangus wrote: post #53

Stop telling me what to do. Seriously. I can look at the phone and the sky in one day. I enjoy both of those things.

This is a suggestion made to ease the habit of deferring to our phones for everything, starting with the first action. I welcome this initiative for decreasing how often I reach for my phone by at least one, and digging up my old alarm clock.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by Cogito »

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…

FYI there is a known issue with the brightness of recent SpaceX satellites, that is being worked on.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1252986968058802177

The important bits:

Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut Apr 23

Is there a reason they’ve been brighter and more noticeable lately? I feel like tons of people are spotting them all of a sudden and they went fairly unnoticed before.

Elon Musk @elonmusk Replying to @Erdayastronaut

Solar panel angle during orbit raise / park. We’re fixing it now.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by adrianN »

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.

With sufficiently smart technology, more subtle gestures can be used to interact with it.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by war1025 »

Robotbeat wrote: post #56

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 pas…

My family just finally learned where Venus is a month or two ago. It's so obvious once you know, but I always assumed it was just another star or something. I get an unreasonable amount of joy out of seeing it up there each night.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by Blaiz0r »

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 think we've become so addicted to smartphones because they are new and shiny, quite a leap from technology we knew over the last 20/30/40 years.

Children born with smartphones around see them as ordinary and probably less addicting, it's what comes next we need to worry about for them.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by war1025 »

mercora wrote: post #8

i have no clock in my bedroom, the first thing i do in the morning is looking out of the window to see where the sun is at currently...

I used to have anxiety about getting enough sleep at night. I found that eliminating clocks from my surroundings really helped me get over that. Something about measuring yourself against the clock can really mess with your mind. These days I don't have that problem anymore, but it's a thing I've repeatedly told my wife when she has trouble sleeping. Don't look at the clock.

Re: May Sky Challenge

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

lopis wrote: post #33
thomasedwards wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you live on the equator?

Doesn't really matter. The progression of the seasons is slow enough that I can get used to the apparent movement of the morning sun and always know more of less if it's about 6am, 7am, 8am, or 9am. Don't really use alarms. It's great, until the time changes (DST) and throws my sleep schedule completely off the window ugh.

The location kind of does - living further up north (Canada) in winter, 6, 7, and 8 can all look the same - dark.
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