fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months agosharks are older than polarismander.xyzimagemessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up1891arrow-down13
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minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·7 months agoI love it. it feels like Polaris will be there long after this rock is barren and cold, and we can continue to navigate by it in the gay space communism
minus-squaredwindling7373@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoApparently the star is going to fizzle out soon, but beside that, if you are not on earth it becomes irrelevant for navigation.
minus-squareSwednecklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agofwiw it’ll at least stop being the north star in some thousand years (might be longer), which is arguably even more fucked to think about like, people in the past had a different north star, what the fuck
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agowhy would you want to dash my hopes like that?
minus-squaregandalf_der_12telinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoyou can just explore other star systems i guess? isn’t that something?
I love it. it feels like Polaris will be there long after this rock is barren and cold, and we can continue to navigate by it in the gay space communism
Apparently the star is going to fizzle out soon, but beside that, if you are not on earth it becomes irrelevant for navigation.
fwiw it’ll at least stop being the north star in some thousand years (might be longer), which is arguably even more fucked to think about
like, people in the past had a different north star, what the fuck
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why would you want to dash my hopes like that?
you can just explore other star systems i guess? isn’t that something?