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