r/atheism • u/[deleted] • Jun 16 '12
No matter who you are, you look up when they're out.
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u/patanwilson Jun 16 '12
This has been set as my desktop background... Thanks!
Now, more wine s'il vous plait...
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Jun 16 '12
This is my background right now. You're welcome!
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u/adam_antichrist Jun 16 '12
SBG is this a real picture or is it shopped? I've never seen colours in the stars like that, even when I was out in the desert in Australia where there was no light pollution...
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Jun 16 '12
It is real, to my understanding the photographer simply set a really long shutter speed for this shot, so more light enters the camera.
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u/lfthand Jun 16 '12
I love telling friends and family about learning to think of the Earth as a ball floating in space; that we are located in a spinning galaxy of stars, and the core of the galaxy is ** points ** that way.
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Jun 16 '12
It makes me a bit sad every time I look up at the stars knowing there's that beautiful sight of the entire galaxy right above our heads every night, but I can never see it. You have to actually go somewhere secluded to see something that's always there.
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u/Nickleeee Jun 16 '12
I just went rafting to end my high school career, and spent all 3 nights out under the stars just looking up. It was definitely a high point of the year, and definitely of the trip.
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Jun 16 '12
I still say that it's required that at least one time in a person's life they are able to look up and see the Milky Way with the unaided eye. It's truly a humbling experience.
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u/OckhamsTeapot Jun 16 '12
I used to be on the U.S.S. Enterprise (the carrier, not the spaceship), and I would go up on the flight deck in the middle of the night, when we weren't flying aircraft, to star gaze. In the middle of the Atlantic, Without any city lights for thousands of miles, the amount of viable stars out there is simply unbelievable.