you’re out of the night gazing up at the heavens, you’re impressed
what’s more impressive
a) your mental activity has no influence at all over what you’re seeing
b) your mental acitivity
I did that once and saw something which I thought might have been a bird and then I thought it might have been a plane but then I had a real good look and it was a bird.
transition said:
you’re out of the night gazing up at the heavens, you’re impressedwhat’s more impressive
a) your mental activity has no influence at all over what you’re seeing
b) your mental acitivity
The fact that we’re able to be impressed by the night sky is certainly impressive. Which is why I don’t sympathise with those who say that contemplating the heavens makes them feel “small and insignificant”. The scope of my vision makes me feel pretty damn big :)
There you have made your first mistake: I don’t go outside at night…
furious said:
- you’re out of the night gazing up at the heavens
There you have made your first mistake: I don’t go outside at night…
Too many vampires?
That’s just for starters…
furious said:
- Too many vampires?
That’s just for starters…
Ohh.. what else is out there?
I have already said too much…
furious said:
- Ohh.. what else is out there?
I have already said too much…
Ah, it’s like the girl in the Beatles’ movie Help!.
“I can say no more.”
We are within the Universe
the planet moves through space
the planet spins around its axis
the planet orbits a star in a galaxy
We are within the Universe
we look up to the night sky
we see stars that are in the universe
we are on a planet that is in the universe
We are within the Universe
Human beings on a planet
and for all our knowledge
we still do not know what it is
We are within the Universe
Human beings with telescopes
Human beings with knowledge
we still do not know where it came from
transition said:
you’re out of the night gazing up at the heavens, you’re impressedwhat’s more impressive
a) your mental activity has no influence at all over what you’re seeing
b) your mental acitivity
For me, what is most impressive is the level of light pollution that stops me from even seeing all of the southern cross.
Next most impressive is the need to look away from stars to see them, those stars that can’t be seen with direct vision.
Third most impressive is the long time it takes the stars to come out after sunset.
mollwollfumble said:
transition said:
you’re out of the night gazing up at the heavens, you’re impressedwhat’s more impressive
a) your mental activity has no influence at all over what you’re seeing
b) your mental acitivity
For me, what is most impressive is the level of light pollution that stops me from even seeing all of the southern cross.
Next most impressive is the need to look away from stars to see them, those stars that can’t be seen with direct vision.
Third most impressive is the long time it takes the stars to come out after sunset.
bob(from black rock) said:
mollwollfumble said:
transition said:
you’re out of the night gazing up at the heavens, you’re impressedwhat’s more impressive
a) your mental activity has no influence at all over what you’re seeing
b) your mental acitivity
For me, what is most impressive is the level of light pollution that stops me from even seeing all of the southern cross.
Next most impressive is the need to look away from stars to see them, those stars that can’t be seen with direct vision.
Third most impressive is the long time it takes the stars to come out after sunset.
It takes them a long time to wash off all the sun screen which they don’t need at night.
>Next most impressive is the need to look away from stars to see them, those stars that can’t be seen with direct vision.
I remember when maybe 9yo the entire family’d sleep on the lawn on very hot nights (no A/C) and noticing of faint stars if looked to the side they were brighter, I told dad this and he dismissed it. It was only maybe fifteen years ago I found out why.
I always thought maybe my eyes had been damaged by arc welding, which did quite a bit of starting when young.
Do you ever wonder when looking at the night sky contemplating the impressiveness of the universe if an alien being on a distant world is doing the same, is curiosity and the quest for knowledge a universal trait amongst sentient beings
Cymek said:
Do you ever wonder when looking at the night sky contemplating the impressiveness of the universe if an alien being on a distant world is doing the same, is curiosity and the quest for knowledge a universal trait amongst sentient beings
does such a thing qualify as a communication between, do you think
transition said:
Cymek said:
Do you ever wonder when looking at the night sky contemplating the impressiveness of the universe if an alien being on a distant world is doing the same, is curiosity and the quest for knowledge a universal trait amongst sentient beings
does such a thing qualify as a communication between, do you think
Hopefully, science fiction usually makes communication between humans and an alien species seem relatively easy but I imagine it probably won’t be like that as all.
Cymek said:
Do you ever wonder when looking at the night sky contemplating the impressiveness of the universe if an alien being on a distant world is doing the same, is curiosity and the quest for knowledge a universal trait amongst sentient beings
No, I wonder who stole the tent.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Cymek said:
Do you ever wonder when looking at the night sky contemplating the impressiveness of the universe if an alien being on a distant world is doing the same, is curiosity and the quest for knowledge a universal trait amongst sentient beings
No, I wonder who stole the tent.
I was in the White Cliffs pub one breezy night when a bloke came in with his hands torn and bleeding, tears running down his face. “what’s up?”, we asked. “The wind, it took my tent, just pulled it pout of my hands.” was the reply
>Hopefully, science fiction usually makes communication between humans and an alien species seem relatively easy but I imagine it probably won’t be like that as all.
I was thinking of that rather mundane-every-day sort of thinking about what another is doing and thinking, even when say two people are not in near proximity to observe each other, for example. These thoughts about what another might be or may have thought influence actions. The field of anticipation, imagining, guessing.
Wondering if this imagining qualifies as communication, given that a lot of human interaction is of this sort, perhaps the bulk of.