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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Well obviously the song isn’t about that star.

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• mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hey buddy, they admitted they didn’t know what the star even was.

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  • kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Huh for some reason I’d never considered that fact that the songwriter would have no idea what a star consisted of. Just a mysterious light in the sky.

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Interesting, I think of the lyrics as describing the way a baby or toddler feels when looking at the stars. They don’t know what those bright lights are yet, they just know they’re shiny and too high up to reach.

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  • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Apparently the sun’s spectral absorbtion lines were discovered 4 years before the song was made

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  • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Literally the next line.

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• zout@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Comic by Will Santino, who's name was conveniently cut off from the bottom.

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s about the size, where you put your eyes, that’s about the size of it.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You guys are waking up in the morning without screaming? Or just not about the stars thing?

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is from a fantasy world. The not screaming is one of the ways you can tell.

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    • Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You guys are getting to sleep, and not just screaming all through the night?

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wake up to the screaming of tiny dinosaurs

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• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Did a star draw this

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We are made of star stuff, so kinda!

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• Deconceptualist@leminal.space ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe it’s about a neutron star. Those are typically on the order of 10 km radius. And it’s hard to know their exact composition, which is why cosmologists dream up fun terms like “nuclear pasta” for degenerate matter.

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• skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh right, Ted.

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m trying to make “twinkle twinkle star-whose-angular-size-from-earth-appears-small” scan but it’s proving a challenge…

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• Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not helpful at all. It wasnt even a star, it was the anti collision light of a 747 going from Heathrow to Dulles…

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• danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The same planet where a dude figured out that everything is relative.

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• Klear@quokk.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Then again it could be super close and the size of a potato.

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  • snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Written ironically by an alien astronaut.

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• Devadander@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not written about the sun

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  • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    it doesn’t say it’s the sun in the picture

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  • Beacon@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All stars are significantly bigger than earth

    https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/116663-smallest-known-star

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    • Devadander@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah no shit. But in the sky, they’re merely a point. Which is what the rhyme is speaking to

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    • moody@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      By mass. But in terms of dimensions there are many stars smaller than Earth.

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