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Pigs can't look up? Hahaha WTF? Who came up with that?
Someone that's never seen a pig
It's like if you asked AI to come up with a problem pigs face and it's only ever read about pigs but never seen one.
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
Pigs can look down. And pigs can lie on their back.
Edgar. Well not really Edgar. More like someone wearing an Edgar suit.
His skin was hangin’ off his bones.
He says it's kind but no one asked the pig what he wants
You can ask. Just say "officer, can l lift you up and show you the stars"?
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.
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.
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 .
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?
My SO has some mild synesthesia, mostly just lights having a "sound". Like, our neighbor had some really obnoxiously bright flashing christmas lights that were allegedly quite loud. He "heard" something akin to a tiny truck backing up whenever he glanced out the window at the wrong time. He almost always knows if it's a real sound or a synesthesia "sound", though there have been a couple of occasions when he has had to ask me if i hear stuff while watching a show or movie that warranted an epilepsy warning. Sometimes he'll get a smell when listening music that makes him nostalgic, too, but that's only happened once or twice.
Do lots of LSD.
If you really want to, try taking some psychedelics.
Boob gazing the very first time.
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
Someone didnt read hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. This is how you get Krikkit pigs
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
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
OINK
If they make Blood Meridian into movie and he’s not the Judge we riot.
His name is Leonard Lawrence, sir!
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.
It's a pretty funny way of putting it but I do appreciate the sentiment.
