riders on the storm
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 03 Jul 15:37
https://mander.xyz/post/33314092

#science_memes

threaded - newest

otacon239@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 15:50 next collapse

I moved away from a state that has them. They’re so beautiful to watch over a big open field. Like stars that fill the ground to complete the sky.

ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works on 03 Jul 16:07 next collapse

That’s a long exposure, but there really can be that many of them. I was out on a moonless night in upstate New York. An amazing number of stars was visible (I could even see the Milky Way), I was surrounded by fireflies and glowworms, and there were no other sources of light once I turned my flashlight off. It was so dark that I couldn’t see my own feet, just lights in all directions.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 17:07 next collapse

I used to live out in the country near a nature preserve and can confirm it looks like this.

Now I’m forced to live in the burbs and get excited when I see a single firefly.

ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works on 03 Jul 17:35 collapse

There used to be at least some fireflies every year where I lived in Brooklyn when I was a kid but now there aren’t.

KMAMURI@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 17:48 next collapse

We have this many right now in the swamps.

RebekahWSD@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 19:42 collapse

I have amazing memories as a kid seeing fields that looked like this! I miss it.

fossilesque@mander.xyz on 04 Jul 10:49 collapse

Me too. :)

ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Jul 16:17 next collapse

Pretty sure that line is a reference to this. One of my fave songs :)

Owl City - Fireflies

astrsk@fedia.io on 03 Jul 16:27 next collapse

It is definitely a reference and I don’t know why you got downvoted for that lol.

AnyOldName3@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 16:33 next collapse

Someone might have thought it was so obvious that it didn’t need stating and would just ruin the joke. Alternatively, someone who was somehow unaware of the song and assumed that would be the case for nearly everyone else might have overconfidently decided it was a stretch without looking at the first line of the song.

MycarHolmes@quokk.au on 03 Jul 17:19 next collapse

maybe because anyone who has played Need For Speed instantly thinks of this song instead.

ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Jul 17:35 next collapse

Someone just jelly of my amazing taste in nearly-20-year-old music, probably 😊

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Jul 23:49 collapse

I don’t think that a single downvote is worth paying attention to.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works on 03 Jul 19:07 next collapse
tpyo@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 22:25 next collapse

I don’t know why this song makes me cry every time I hear it. Something about it gets me right in the soul. Also I didn’t know the artist or song name so thanks for the link, that is a beautiful video; I haven’t seen it before and after a bit of an emotionally taxing day I got a happy cry and I feel a lot lighter inside

💚 Thank you for brightening this stranger’s day

ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 04 Jul 15:56 collapse

Aww I’m super glad to hear it improved your day, and you’ll be able to find it again in the future!

I get the same reaction to it, I think it’s the use of flat melancholic notes scattered throughout, such as in the refrain “I’d like to make myself believe, that planet earth turns slowly”. For me anyway. I love that sort of upbeat but sorrowful sort of thing. It gives me intense frisson (aka aesthetic shiver, aka that chill down your spine when something hits just right).

The sound of silence covered by Pentatonix also gives me mad frisson every time I hear it. And for the same reason I think.

dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 04 Jul 01:50 collapse

Thanks, me and all the old people thought it was The Doors. youtu.be/7G2-FPlvY58

SculptusPoe@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 16:32 next collapse

I remember when Florida had them in large number, not like that but still maybe one every 10 feet or so on the heaviest night I’ve seen. It was pretty. Now I get excited if I see any at all. If I see 3 in the same night I am ecstatic.

Kowowow@lemmy.ca on 03 Jul 17:03 next collapse

Never seen fire flies in real life I’ve always had to make do with embers from a fire

Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works on 03 Jul 23:06 collapse

Same here until I moved to Ohio for a few years, they’re really cool to have around.

Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Jul 18:37 next collapse

During COVID when nobody able to spray for mosquitoes there was a really cool resurgence - even in the suburbs. Came home from a bicycle ride late one evening, and swear every tree had Christmas lights strung up, they were chilling out and just glimmering in every branch.

I pushed the bike home that night and watched the show in the trees, a lovely coda to the day

Tormato@hexbear.net on 03 Jul 18:40 next collapse

Was just having this conversation last night with a friend as we were remarking to each other how mesmerizing dusk is with the summer fireflies.

When he said they didn’t exist out West where he grew up I was surprised.

Thought all along fireflies at dusk was one of the more enchanting parts of summer.

Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Jul 19:45 next collapse

I can smell this picture.

Zetta@mander.xyz on 03 Jul 20:49 collapse

Do the bugs have a scent? I’ve never lived in an area with them.

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca on 03 Jul 20:53 next collapse

None that I’ve noticed

Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Jul 22:55 collapse

When we were kids we’d catch them in jars sometimes and if you smelled the jar after it def had a scent. If the population is dense enough you can just smell it in the air.

NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml on 03 Jul 19:56 next collapse

Ngl this looks like the minecraft twilight forest barrier

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7c3bcbdb-ef19-40c5-8063-b0610356edc0.jpeg">

AOCapitulator@hexbear.net on 03 Jul 20:10 collapse

What the fuck is a twilight forest barrier!

I swear to god one day I’ll log into my minecraft world and won’t recognize anything

nice texture pack though, been like a decade since I saw Sphax

NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml on 03 Jul 20:11 collapse

It’s a mod

prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works on 03 Jul 20:21 next collapse

Sat with a couple friends, heavily under the influence of mushrooms, and watched fireflies across a newly planted tree farm field.

I’m pretty sure the three of us each took our own universal truth from that night but in that moment I was pretty sure I witnessed the fireflies riding some sort of universal wave, like gravity and they would jump from wave to wave when they blinked.

Anyways. I miss being young.

Or shrooms. Maybe I just miss those…

Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone on 03 Jul 21:37 next collapse

Shrooms are great, even before the studies came out saying they could treat depression etc for years after taking I knew.

One good day on shrooms and 6 months of better life after

5in1k@lemmy.zip on 04 Jul 13:31 collapse

Ha I had a similar experience, mushrooms are great.

big_slap@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 20:47 next collapse

there were so many fireflies in nyc yesterday, i was shocked!

Grimy@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 20:49 next collapse

I have a lot in my backyard, it’s a treat to see at night. I have been searching online on what plants they like so I could build a firefly refuge and encourage their breeding but I can’t find any info.

big_slap@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 20:52 collapse

maybe this link will help?

www.firefly.org/build-firefly-habitat

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 23:21 collapse

<img alt="1000001699" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c3bf8200-0918-4f20-8f58-737f5ed8c513.jpeg">

Klear@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 09:07 collapse

🍃

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 03 Jul 20:51 next collapse

I got a million hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs!

felsiq@lemmy.zip on 04 Jul 01:22 next collapse

I’ve always wondered if the hugs were distributed evenly or if there was a hugs georg firefly and the rest were normal ones

TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 04 Jul 02:58 collapse

I only got 30k :(

Doublenut@lemmy.zip on 04 Jul 02:29 next collapse

I had an experience like this camping out in the foothills of the Catskills. One of my favorite camping trips.

RagingRobot@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 03:10 next collapse

My house is like this but with mosquitoes instead of fires

xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works on 04 Jul 14:44 collapse

First time I prefer mosquitoes because the alternative is my home burning down

UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca on 04 Jul 08:55 next collapse

That’s how forests fires get started. That and DEI.

humorlessrepost@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 16:12 collapse

Don’t forget the (((space lasers)))

5in1k@lemmy.zip on 04 Jul 13:30 next collapse

I took my friends to go see trees full of fireflies while camping and doing mushrooms, mind blowing.

levzzz@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 13:56 collapse

Where is the moth poster when we need him