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[–] [email protected] 94 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Pigs can't look up? Hahaha WTF? Who came up with that?

[–] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Someone that's never seen a pig

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

They can't look straight up, and then some genius heard that and morphed it to pigs can't look up period.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hello Prime minister of the UK from that episode of Black Mirror

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Or an actual previous prime minister in his student days

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pigs can look down. And pigs can lie on their back.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They can also stand on a slope

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Edgar. Well not really Edgar. More like someone wearing an Edgar suit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

His skin was hangin’ off his bones.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

He says it's kind but no one asked the pig what he wants

[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago

You can ask. Just say "officer, can l lift you up and show you the stars"?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You bet your ass that pig gonna be kicking and screaming.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago

Can't pigs lie on their side and roll around though? Then they'd be able to see the stars

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seeing the stars in a properly dark area, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 .

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Do lots of LSD.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

If you really want to, try taking some psychedelics.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Boob gazing the very first time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Maybe seeing wavelengths we can't normally see, like IR and UV? Would be pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is so much lightpollution that neither we can watch it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The good news is that the problem is fixable, so if that's important to you, check out: https://www.darkskysociety.org/

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Someone didnt read hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. This is how you get Krikkit pigs

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

SUGAR.......WITH WATER.....

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm betting pigs could write some bomb ass poetry

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Tony from Dazed and Confused?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can a copper look up tho? Maybe that's why they are so nasty and jealous of uplookers?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Tbf, this would also explain why guards in stealth games never look up

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is the most wholesome thing I've seen on the Internet today. This was the smile I needed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Dont ruin peoples days

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think you mean that Thor tweeted this. He will always be Thor.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

If they make Blood Meridian into movie and he’s not the Judge we riot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

His name is Leonard Lawrence, sir!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It's a pretty funny way of putting it but I do appreciate the sentiment.

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