Just remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure, how amazing and unlikely was your birth. . . And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space, ‘cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth!
I remember Bob Dole telling a reporter, “Tell George Bush to stop lying about my record!” Bush had indeed been lying about about some aspect of Dole’s record, if memory serves, but, rather than pillory Bush for lying, the media pilloried Dole for objecting to being lied about!
I had already learned by that time never to vote for any Republican for any national office, but I was still naive enough to be flabbergasted by media willingness to turn aside from reporting on Republican lies. I guess they had been burned too many times when the PR mastery of the Reagan administration made it impossible for many people to believe demonstrable facts if the GOP’s shiny happy Potemkin psyops repeatedly contradicted them.
Depends on what you mean by “see”. Naked eyes would not make it look like what you see in long exposure photographs, but for example “The Andromeda Galaxy” M31 is easy to see on a clear night at the right time of year. But it will just look like a little smudge on the sky.
“You know how when you see a star in the sky, it might not even be there anymore because the light takes so long to get here that it only looks like it’s still there? That’s how I see old girlfriends.”
“Can you imagine if lightbulbs worked the same way? ‘I thought I told you to shut off that light.’ ‘I did, it’ll be out by Friday.’”
Imagine 7 months ago
Yup. Sums it up pretty well.
wi3leong Premium Member 7 months ago
Pretty sure a really good telescope is needed to see a galaxy 537 million light years away.
Skeptical Meg 7 months ago
I hope the bat didn’t burn its mouth.
mindjob 7 months ago
Fireflys had their origins in the primordial soup as well
delennwen 7 months ago
Just remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure, how amazing and unlikely was your birth. . . And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space, ‘cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth!
Jefano Premium Member 7 months ago
I remember Bob Dole telling a reporter, “Tell George Bush to stop lying about my record!” Bush had indeed been lying about about some aspect of Dole’s record, if memory serves, but, rather than pillory Bush for lying, the media pilloried Dole for objecting to being lied about!
I had already learned by that time never to vote for any Republican for any national office, but I was still naive enough to be flabbergasted by media willingness to turn aside from reporting on Republican lies. I guess they had been burned too many times when the PR mastery of the Reagan administration made it impossible for many people to believe demonstrable facts if the GOP’s shiny happy Potemkin psyops repeatedly contradicted them.
Fennec! at the Disco 7 months ago
I was wondering why a star would be blinking.
BW42 7 months ago
Depends on what you mean by “see”. Naked eyes would not make it look like what you see in long exposure photographs, but for example “The Andromeda Galaxy” M31 is easy to see on a clear night at the right time of year. But it will just look like a little smudge on the sky.
old_geek 7 months ago
It saw a sappy movie…
win.45mag 7 months ago
If any of that primordal whatever was truth, It’d be funny.
TimeLordSoundwave 7 months ago
“You know how when you see a star in the sky, it might not even be there anymore because the light takes so long to get here that it only looks like it’s still there? That’s how I see old girlfriends.”
“Can you imagine if lightbulbs worked the same way? ‘I thought I told you to shut off that light.’ ‘I did, it’ll be out by Friday.’”
- Stephen Wright