Hey buddy, they admitted they didn’t know what the star even was.
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Submitted 2 months ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Apparently the sun’s spectral absorbtion lines were discovered 4 years before the song was made
lobut@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Literally the next line.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They thought it was made of carbon.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
You guys are waking up in the morning without screaming? Or just not about the stars thing?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This is from a fantasy world. The not screaming is one of the ways you can tell.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I wake up to the screaming of tiny dinosaurs
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You guys are getting to sleep, and not just screaming all through the night?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No
CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 1 month ago
GNU Terry Pratchett
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Did a star draw this
PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We are made of star stuff, so kinda!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Well obviously the song isn’t about that star.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Oh right, Ted.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 months 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.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 months ago
I’m trying to make “twinkle twinkle star-whose-angular-size-from-earth-appears-small” scan but it’s proving a challenge…
danekrae@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The same planet where a dude figured out that everything is relative.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Hapsburgs?
Klear@quokk.au 2 months ago
Then again it could be super close and the size of a potato.
snoons@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Written ironically by an alien astronaut.
Devadander@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not written about the sun
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
it doesn’t say it’s the sun in the picture
Beacon@fedia.io 2 months ago
All stars are significantly bigger than earth
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/116663-smallest-known-star
moody@lemmings.world 2 months ago
By mass. But in terms of dimensions there are many stars smaller than Earth.
Devadander@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah no shit. But in the sky, they’re merely a point. Which is what the rhyme is speaking to
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not helpful at all. It wasnt even a star, it was the anti collision light of a 747 going from Heathrow to Dulles…
zout@fedia.io 2 months ago
Comic by Will Santino, who's name was conveniently cut off from the bottom.
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To the top with you