Pigs can’t look up? Hahaha WTF? Who came up with that?
Someone that’s never seen a pig
They can’t look straight up, and then some genius heard that and morphed it to pigs can’t look up period.
Plus, it’s not like the only way to look at the stars is by pointing your nose to the sky… Eyes have movement and the stars can also be seen in the horizon.
Still, would be nice to hug a pig, with my guts. (jk…)
Edit: shit, that sounds so wrong, I meant eating the pig…
Hello Prime minister of the UK from that episode of Black Mirror
Or an actual previous prime minister in his student days
Explain.
David Cameron allegedly put his penis in a dead pig’s mouth to join the Bullington Club.
No pig has ever laid on his side and looked sideways at the sky.
They could even look at water reflections, although their very existence is at odds with such possibilities.
Edgar. Well not really Edgar. More like someone wearing an Edgar suit.
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In. WA-ter.
His skin was hangin’ off his bones.
Can’t pigs lie on their side and roll around though? Then they’d be able to see the stars
What would the modern human equivalent of seeing the stars for the first time be? I guess we probably wouldn’t really comprehend it even if we had the opportunity.
Seeing the stars in a properly dark area, maybe?
It really is an experience. I’m from NJ and lived in the NYC metro area for 7 years so I’ve never really seen “true” darkness.
A few years back I went out to Colorado and a few friends and I stayed in a cabin up in The Rocky Mountains. That’s true darkness. On the road up to the cabin we turned the headlights off, got out of the car and you couldn’t see your hands it was so dark. It was cloudy so we couldn’t see much, but it was still pretty awesome to see the stars that bright (when we could).
Yes absolutely. I took a trip out towards the middle of Australia and it was crazy, we don’t even have that much light pollution in our cities but the difference is still massive.
Oh yeah, definitely out there, that’s the epitome of “the middle of nowhere” haha Where we were there was a small community up on the mountain, but nothing that really affected the darkness of what we saw since it was a good mile up the road and it was just house lights.
There are probably people that have never really seen the stars and it will probbaly only get worse. It’s honestly sad.
It makes me think of the Overview Effect.
There definitely are tens of thousands, if not millions of people that have never seen a bright night sky. That’s pretty much the case for anyone that lives in or around NYC. I’d say that’s the case for anyone that lives in or around a big city.
I’m down in Miami now, which is a far cry from NYC, but it’s still pretty bright here and you can’t see much, drive about 30-45 minutes west to The Everglades and that’s a different story though.
I’ve always been sorta jealous of people with synaesthesia. I imagine there’s probably some weird downsides but I’d love to experience it. Just, like, something dumb like what color is my favorite song, or what does 4 smell like?
Do lots of LSD.
Many astronauts say seeing the earth from space is a similar transcendent moment. Especially the Apollo astronauts who could see the entire earth at once .
This is the Overview Effect.
Boob gazing the very first time.
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I live in a place with very little light pollution, and I can confirm - seeing our arm of the Milky Way, stretched across the night sky, in all its glory is amazing.
I’ve taken many people out of the city to watch the Perseid meteor shower. You have to drive a few hours to get far enough away, so not always easy to convince people.
It’s always fun creating that memory when you get one that has never seen the Milky Way. It can be an eye opening experience and I highly recommend everyone do it at least once in their life.
Being able to see the full spectrum of colors that actually exist in the world. Every very rare once in a while someone is born with more cones in their eyes, which allows them to see more. The rest of us, though, will never know.
Maybe seeing wavelengths we can’t normally see, like IR and UV? Would be pretty cool.
There is so much lightpollution that neither we can watch it
The good news is that the problem is fixable, so if that’s important to you, check out: https://www.darkskysociety.org/
Thanks, I will join the dark society
Thor tweeted that.
Oh shit thats me
You know, I must have watched this movie dozens of times since it came out, and I have watched Discovery, and I never put this together.
Tony from Dazed and Confused?
Are you going to change your name to Daryl?
Were you the french fries and ketchup kid?
This is the most wholesome thing I’ve seen on the Internet today. This was the smile I needed.
Hello! I’m here to ruin it :) Just because it can’t look up doesn’t mean it can’t see starts in front of it at night
Dont ruin peoples days
SUGAR…WITH WATER…
Can a copper look up tho? Maybe that’s why they are so nasty and jealous of uplookers?
Tbf, this would also explain why guards in stealth games never look up
I’m just imagining him turning up at a farm and very insistently telling the farmer that this is what he’s going to do. Even if that farm doesn’t have pigs, that’s what’s going to happen when he pulls up.
His name is Leonard Lawrence, sir!
If they make Blood Meridian into movie and he’s not the Judge we riot.
It’s a pretty funny way of putting it but I do appreciate the sentiment.
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Pig’s can’t look up.
But I could pick a pig up one night and raise it into the sky and tilt this pig ever so gentle. I can make sure this pigs eyes line up with the stars. Imagine seeing the starts 4the first time.I want 2b treated that kindly and see the stars for the first time.
